How to see.

As a friend of mine would say; I’m going to drop some jewels on you.

A little background first. It’s all about discerning syntax. All over the world there are people with their third eye open, but they all describe it differently. The only way around this is to read as much of their stuff as one can, and after a while one begins to “see” what is going on. Here I am compiling neuroscience, metaphysics, quantum physics, psychology, and anthropology.

Religion was forced on me as a child, and that small child I was bought it hook line and sinker. One of the primary reasons for this was my sensitivity. This sensitivity that I have validated what they were saying, because there is indeed shit going on that one cannot see, which gets named spiritual. The issue here is that just because one cannot “see” what is going on behind the curtain does not mean it is some guy in the sky. When I awoke from the sleep that is Christianity I set about explaining the things that they say are true in terms of reality.  Which is what I am about to display.

Let’s start where I did, with a real deal sorcerer. Those Carlos Castaneda books really did a number on me. The fact that some guy from Mexico knew all those things that he knew is absolutely astounding to me. So much of it is mind bending. No TV watcher I know even would believe a quarter of it if I told them, but this no reason at all to discredit it. What was so awakening for me was the syntax that Carlos used. His teacher used this word “seeing” all the time, because don Juan did not have the term third eye in his vocabulary. In their talks don Juan often spoke of being able to switch between his normal vision and his third eye at will. He explained to Carlos that during his apprenticeship one of the methods used to “shatter their vision” was hallucinogens.  

I got my hands on a book by an Indian Master, an India Indian. There were many crazy things about this book. One being the intro. It warns one right from the beginning; reading this book will bring enlightenment. Some people claim to have increased their awareness just touching it, which probably sounds crazy to a TV watcher, but as you’re about to find out, if you knew how to “see” is a totally realistic claim. The second crazy thing, was that this guy “shattered his vision” without the use of hallucinogens. He talks about it often in the book, how he did this; by focusing on someone who already has. In his case, his Guru.  

Here comes quantum physics. How did he do that? Well, it turns out meditators can link their minds. They’ve proven this with the EEG caps. Get two meditators, and have them focus on each other for a couple weeks. Then get them in the lab, put the caps on, but separate them by some walls. Then they put a strobe light on one of the meditators that is in a room by him/herself. Strobes cause the brain to flicker, which registers with the EEG. Guess what? The meditator in the other room, without a strobe in the room, still registered the strobe activity as if the strobe was in the room. That is an extremely powerful observation. That is most definitely proof that two people can harmonize, as I like to say.

So what is “shattering one’s vision”? What this means, is that one can “see” what is going on using their mind/body, and not just the eyes. Our eyes only detect about 1% of the light that is directly in front of them at any given time. Our bodies, which I’ve explained before, is the unconscious mind. And within the body is the most complicated known thing in the universe, the brain. Both of these are detecting things (read here light; all “things” are light) that the eyes cannot see. So what these individuals have done in the mind is learn to “see” these other forms/types/kinds of light energy in their mind's eye, which over time seems like normal vision in a way. When one can overlay the two, one’s “vision is shattered”. Seeing a person's aura is good way to think of it. Again, this Indian Master was not using the same syntax and Carlos.  

Here comes the neuroscience. I can’t really explain the tremendous complexity of the brain here, so this is definitely a condensed version. Anyways, a scientist made a device for blind people. He experimented with it on people who were born blind. They had never in their life seen with their eyes. The original device he made laid across their back, with a camera attached to the shoulder. The darker something in the image was, the more activity they felt on their back, the lighter something was, the less activity. These blind people, using this device, after practice, could distinguish a telephone, on a dresser, behind a vase, at ten feet away! Using the sensations on their back, they created an image of the room in the mind.

That is insane! Over time, technology improved, making for better equipment, and people got to where they could describe people's physical features, yet they had no eyes to use! This scientist expressed quite clearly that it is not our eyes that see, but our brain. The eyes only detect differences in light; it is the brain that creates that image in our head that we see, and because we are so accustomed to “thinking” of it in this way, we are spiritually blind. I could see where a lot of people need to sit and stare at that beautiful jewel for a minute. Think of all the spiritual sayings, and quotes and what not, revolving around this fact.

Because I had read the Carlos Castaneda books first, I knew that another one of don Juan’s methods of “shattering one’s vision” was not only using hallucinogens, but also by using dreams. Think about it, when you are dreaming, do you not see the dream? But not even for a minute are you using your eyes. Ha! Your’re third eye has been open all your life and you probably didn’t even know it. Go ahead, sit and stare at that jewel for a minute too.

Opening one’s third eye is not some magical thing restricted to a special few. It is simply a matter of awareness. Every single night of our lives our third eye is wide open. It is a trick of cultural indoctrination to think that what we see, merely with our physical eyes, is all there is to see. So surely one can understand, if they are a truth seeker, or wish to know god, that they must learn to “see” instead of merely see. Nothing magical about it; nothing to do with god; simply a matter of awareness. You know, becoming aware of what is actually going on right in front of your face.  

I personally have psychic experiences all the time. It’s not something one can really talk about though publicly. Having someone doubt it, or think negatively about it, has an affect on the psychic individual. Why? It has to do with that strobe light experiment. If one is surrounded by a lot of haters, doubters, cynics, it will affect one’s mind. Most TV watchers are constantly radiating the dumbest energy. True though, it is possible to achieve such a state where that is not the case, where one is immune so to speak to the thoughts of others, but on the whole it is best to avoid it as much as one can, even if they have said immunity. Most spiritual Masters post up alone somewhere, away from the world, where only those wanting truth show up.

An MIT professor, who claims to have seen other people’s auras most of his life, took it upon himself to study such things.  His book titled You Are Psychic gives lots of exercises to help one open their third eye, and he also puts it in a language most Americans can wrap their mind around. Reading stuff by Indian Masters and Sorcerers from Mexico makes it a little tougher unless one is truly dedicated to the task.

In my opinion, the main key here is to stop thinking. Stop thinking you know, stop thinking what you see is how it is. To realize these cultures are all based on the simplest level of reality, and those mystics, shamans, sorcerers, Masters, whatever, are merely people who chose to grow up. They stopped believing the story about how it is, and went in search for themselves what is really going on.  

Think about it, if you “shattered your vision” and could “see”, what some call the “light of God” in all things, and you were standing next to a public educated TV watcher. Would you not seem nearly all knowing? Would you not almost seem like a god in and of yourself? Books upon books have been written regarding the things one can do when they grow up.

But what if you were standing next to someone else who could “see”? What then? Just two monkeys on a flying rock….

Look at that jewel shining….

Some references should you take it upon yourself to go and see for yourself:
A Play of Consciousness by  Swami Muktananda
The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
You are Psychic by Pete A. Sanders
Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson
I recommend reading all of Carlos Castaneda's books.