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The
Spiritual Eye: What is it; What it Looks Like; and How to See It
From
Awaken
to Superconsciousness by Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters)
The
Spiritual Eye, shown in a
painting by Swami Kriyananda
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The medulla
is the seat of ego in the body. It is the negative pole of Self-consciousness.
The positive pole is located at the point between the eyebrows.
Here is the center of the higher expression of Self-consciousness.
At this point is beheld also the spiritual eye, which is a reflection
of the energy that enters the body constantly from the surrounding
universe, through the medulla.
The spiritual
eye is not imaginary. It is something one actually sees in meditation,
when the thoughts are stilled, and when the intellect functions
on its own higher, intuitive level. Many that I've met have told
me they'd seen the spiritual eye in meditation, some of them long
before they had any idea what it was. Some saw it even before they
knew about the spiritual path.
When the spiritual
eye is beheld clearly, it is a golden circle of light surrounding
a field of deep blue. In the center of this blue field is a white
star with five points. When the spiritual eye is beheld imperfectly,
it is seen as a dim violet light with a faint circle around it,
and an even fainter dot in the center.
Whether or not you behold the spiritual eye, by meditating at that
point your consciousness will gradually rise until at last it passes
the portals of human awareness and enters the state of ecstasy,
or superconsciousness.
One problem people face is not knowing from what position, mentally,
to approach that spiritual center. Lahiri Mahasaya, my guru's spiritual
grandfather (his guru's guru), said to concentrate the attention
first in the region of the medulla oblongata, and from that point
to gaze toward the spiritual eye. People's awareness of their egos
is often distributed vaguely throughout the body. By centering it
consciously in its true seat, the medulla, it becomes possible to
direct ego-consciousness toward its own higher octave.
Once ego-consciousness
has been dissolved in superconsciousness, the center of consciousness
shifts naturally from the ego to the heart. At this point, intuitive
feeling takes one's consciousness upward through the spiritual eye
and out into Infinity.
—Learn More: Spiritual Eye Meditation
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