After my last diary note it occurred to me that I have on two or three occasions over the years seen through the third eye.
In each case I was lying in bed, focussed, and it was just prior to projecting from the body. I did not set out to see through the third eye, or indeed determine the object of my vision. It is quite possible I received higher help in doing this. I was looking through a single eye in the forehead region, as though I was looking through a telescope or magnifying glass at a particular location on the other realms which, I believe in all cases, was a countryside vista. It was necessary, and this I clearly remember, to maintain this focus with some effort, rather like a relaxed effort if there is such a thing, and if I didn’t I would lose it. So it wasn’t just like relaxing into a dream, for example. One particular country scene I can still remember, and it was hedgerows on a path leading towards a wood with my vision starting to move along this path and speed up as it did so, until I left my body and I was there. And then the astral experience took place, probably under guidance. I realised that this is very different from being awake and seated, and deliberately inducing vision through the third eye at will, which I have not achieved in this life yet. However, it does give me some encouragement in that I know it can be done and I recall the clarity of vision as I beheld the location I was seeing on another realm on these occasions. I wasn’t out of body, I wasn’t in a dream, I was lying down, but I was very focused. I know that a clairvoyant experience is achieved normally with the eyes open, which enables you to determine what you look at, e.g. the aura of a person in the same room as yourself. The eyes start to blur over – hence the “mist” which descends on a crystal ball – and go out of focus as the vision is transferred towards the third eye. Although in many cases it is no doubt a reflection of a lower centre, probably the solar plexus centre. There is a combination of what might be called the “mind’s eye”, in other words a mental impression, with actual third eye or psychic vision in such clairvoyance, as when I saw and was able to describe Count Cagliostro in my office at Aetherius House and confirmed later that my vision fitted with how he had actually looked. But seeing through the third eye in that chakra at will and possibly determining the object of one’s vision is quite another thing which I have yet to achieve. With the eyes closed, I suspect that you wouldn’t necessarily see what is in your physical vicinity because you wouldn’t be spatially limited, as it were, but that’s only a theory which I have yet to experience. I took the First Hour Service as usual last night and during it had, what seemed to me, was a significant experience.
One of the difficulties in all forms of psychic development is discriminating between physical sensations and psychic ones. For example, spiritual energies can cause a tingling sensation in the physical body, but so can a physical allergic reaction. Giving healing can cause considerable heat in the palms of the hands, but so can a radiator. Silly examples maybe, but you get the point. When trying to see the third eye you have to make sure you’re not looking at the retention of the physical image of an electrical light or the sun if you’ve been looking at them or, even with your eyes closed, they are visible to you. For that reason I do my practices wherever possible in a darkened room where this cannot happen. Then I know that the light I see is internal. However, during the Service, while my eyes were closed at one point and the image of the physical light was still present, so also was the internal light and I could easily distinguish between the two. The light from the third eye was very small on this occasion, little more than a pinprick, but much brighter and much whiter. Of course that was not my reason for being there so I did not concentrate on this, but I did observe it as a definite factor. ------------------------------ One of the things I’ve noticed in my attempts to raise kundalini and open the third eye, is the activation, sometimes intensely, of the solar plexus centre. In fact, this has been an obstruction to me and I am having to learn, sometimes with difficulty, to detach from it. If I think back this is a problem I encountered as a teenager, although I didn’t then know what it was. I very clearly remember strong sensations in what I considered to be my stomach area then. Although they felt physical I knew even then that they weren’t, but what they were I didn’t know, except they were somehow related to mind and in those days connected them to my creative process as a would-be composer and playwright. As soon as I see and focus on the light in the head the solar plexus seems to “kick into action” and I have to still myself and detach from that in order to proceed further. This detachment can be achieved without any force, but for me it doesn’t happen naturally – I have to make it happen. I put it down to lives of nadic flow in a certain direction which has to be re-programmed, as it were, by me. I suppose it takes time for a tanker to change course on an ocean and that seems to be what is happening here. ------------------------------ Yesterday I realised the blindingly obvious – that the Practice of the Presence is an embryonic state of cosmic consciousness. Apologies if I’m way behind you on this. As I see it, the white light is a purifying force, the violet flame coming from the Mother Earth could be connected to kundalini; these are risen to the crown centre in their entirety and the result is divine illumination in the form of the golden light throughout our being. In his version of the practice on March 16th, 1963, the Master Aetherius talks about this golden light vibrating every cell of the body so that your heart sings with joy, your brain rejoices and you feel the blood singing in your ears a hymn of praise to this nectar of the Gods. He says that the voice of the internal organs sing in praise as this sweet golden nectar flows through them, that they thrill to it. At its height this would undoubtedly be samadhic bliss, but until then we are given it in embryonic form. In the version of February 28th, 1960, for example, he talks about the golden flame as being all-knowing and coming right the way down through body and aura – again, at its height, a samadhic state. ------------------------------ Talking about the Practice of the Presence, in the August 19th, 1959 version, the Master Aetherius advises practitioners not to put up any barriers of disbelief while the violet flame is flowing up through their body and aura. As well as doubting thoughts these barriers can be nadic blockages of residual energy which prevent this upward flow of the violet flame. When the practitioner is ready to raise kundalini, if these blockages have not been transmuted they would act as barriers, so-called “knots” to impede this rise. The violet flame comes from the Mother Earth and, ultimately, She too is the source of kundalini. ------------------------------ I realised today that there is a difference between seeing the third eye and looking through the third eye. It seems to me that to see the third eye one would have to be very sure that it was in fact the christ centre and not the reflected eye of a lower centre as it were. One could be sure and I have experienced that when I saw the vivid purple eye in front of me, but it would take a big effort and, at a lower level than this, it could just be a manifestation of clairvoyance. ------------------------------ In the Eighth Blessing the Master Jesus gives us a practice which we have not done justice to, I feel. It is as follows. Face the sun and absorb its radiated power deeply into the third eye. The heart will thereby be cleansed of impurity which I take to be a transmutation of blockages in the region of the heart chakra by the attraction of kundalini and/or prana upwards towards the third eye. Also, the third eye can dwell upon this glory which may be the energy from the Sun duly absorbed into this centre and/or the Sun itself. The motive behind this must only be that of service to others who have not experienced this, and let’s be clear about this, that service will be enhanced by the purification of the heart centre. The implication is that by dwelling on this glory, you will help the consciousness and karma of humanity as a whole. And that would be my summary about this practice which can be performed in a sunny clime and should be. It is an easy one for us to miss – and I’ve done so myself – but it has clearly and emphatically been given to us to use. FOOTNOTE February 7th, 2022 - I have discovered, of course I should have known, this practice doesn’t require a sunny clime. That you can do this practice, and I did it today, in a darkened room with the curtains drawn and you can’t even see the Sun, because the Sun is always there of course. Now obviously I think it would be much better if you can do it in the Sun, but in some climates that’s very difficult. You can still, I have found, do this practice and if you can magnetically draw the energy into the third eye all the better. Because I have also discovered as of February 7th, 2023, that in these things, and in raising the kundalini in particular, you go beyond thought and visualisation to what might be called "will" and it’s a magnetic attraction that draws that kundalini, if you like, activated by will. I’m not trying to sound too fanciful here but it’s something which does start to happen, not all the time, but when you are in a certain state. Of course in the case of Dr. King he could enter samadhi in two minutes flat and had to many times to gain a transmission. He couldn’t go through long visualisation and thought processes, he just did it through sheer will, I am sure, and of course he had full mastery of the kundalini which someone like me definitely doesn’t have. But I have discovered that it goes beyond just visualisation and thought, and becomes something magnetic. For the last two weeks I have been increasing my attempt to “see” the third eye.
Various realisations have come to me through practical experience assisted by higher guidance. The guidelines we have been given by Dr. King are impeccable and we are extremely fortunate to have them. They provide a sure course for us to steer through the testing waters of kundalini-attainment. However, I do realise that there is a big difference between the path he took to mastery and the one we are now taking through service. Whereas he achieved a forced rise of kundalini by his advanced and highly disciplined practice of Kundalini Yoga and other exercises, ours is a slower, unforced path which is much safer for ordinary terrestrial people. He was an avatar with no karma on Earth other than the karma he took upon himself for our benefit. He also had to gain certain abilities quickly at a young age in order to perform his mission to Earth. The average person, even if they tried this path, would have failed to achieve this level, possibly with dire consequences to their mental health. And anyway, since the New Age teachings were delivered it would not work beyond a certain point. So this means that some of the experiences he had could be very different from those of us following a very advanced path of service through The Aetherius Society, otherwise known as King Yoga. The big difference is that this path leads to an unforced rise of kundalini. Specifically Dr. King stated that when he first experienced a rise of kundalini from the base centre it was excruciatingly painful and he attributed this to burning up his karma. That would be whatever karma he had taken upon himself or garnered in his childhood and youth on Earth. We are in an entirely different situation with lives of a negative karma to transmute. But on this path of service we are burning it up in a different way and over a longer period – in my case, over 50 years as a Member and over 47 years as a Staff Member and also many years, decades as a Task Force Member. My experience indicates that although there can be a degree of pain in “breaking the knots” as some Sanskrit writings depict it and piercing the base chakra to bring about a rise. It may not be the excruciating pain experienced by Dr. King when he forced kundalini because some of those “knots”, which are mento-psychic blockages in the nadic system, may have been transmuted to some degree already through service. Another experience Dr. King singles out in his commentary on the First Freedom is the terrible aloneness experienced when first the aspirant looks through the christ centre – a sense of being alone in the universe. Again, there is no doubt that this loneliness, which is a test and comes from the lower self, will be experienced just as Dr. King described but, from my experience, not necessarily “all in one go” as it were. The reason for this is that the truly advanced path of service offered through The Aetherius Society, if followed to a very full extent, brings with it tests of loneliness along the way and, indeed, others too. Dr. King attributes his experience of loneliness when he first looked through the christ centre to the negative accumulation of fear in his commentary. Whether his sense of loneliness in the universe had something to do with being from another world, which he didn’t know then, and whether a terrestrial person would have such a cosmic sense of being alone, is interesting to ponder. The loneliness which tests an average terrestrial could relate to more worldly things such as family, having a partner, social interaction, etc. I’ve noticed other tests of fear come to the fore as the kundalini starts to rise such as “am I going mad?”, “have I lost contact with reality?”, etc. In fact there’s a resistance to moving into a super-conscious state with a fear that it is a loss of consciousness, stability and control. I’ve also noticed, as I start to awaken, albeit in a relatively limited manner, doubt entering my consciousness in such a nebulous form that it carries no particular thoughts and is purely an energy. It is not a series of doubting questions as you might get from a sceptical interrogator, but just an energy which seems to be seeking out a line of doubt and finding no mental substance in which to frame it. Again, through serving in the world with a belief system, which is dismissed or ridiculed by many, including sometimes close family members and friends, the aspirant has already been tested on their belief and faith to a certain degree but not until now at this level. I realised also that through service you can get blissful states, from time to time, along the way. In my case I have already experienced a state of peace so deep that I was strangely worried, while bathed in it, that it would never stop and that I wouldn’t be able to function as normal. Of course, after some hours it did pass and I could. But this also means that the aspirant doesn’t necessarily require the same degree of peaceful and blissful experience as depicted in yogic writings in association with higher consciousness caused by a rise of kundalini. It could be a more technical, controlled manifestation of that which already exists, although obviously it must move to much higher degrees of oneness and inner awareness. It is though from a quick attainment through forcing a rise of kundalini and bringing on the resultant extremes of mento-psychic and psycho-spiritual reactions whether those be fearful, blissful or any other. During this period I have received very helpful guidance from two particular sources. The first is an extract from a transmission by the Master Aetherius on January 12th, 1957, which explains that the light one sees in the head when looking inwards just above the centre of the eyebrows, is the physical manifestation of the third eye, that the centre is really situated in the aura. That is the spot one should look at. This acted as quite a key for me in that one has to look upwards first to make a connection with the physical manifestation but the spot one should really look towards is in the aura. If one just looks to that one spot without first raising the consciousness towards the christ centre, one might be looking at a reflection of a lower centre and not the third eye even though it may appear to be that. Dr. King has alluded to the fact that when we first see what we believe to be the third eye it could in fact be a reflection of the solar plexus centre. The other guidance I’ve received is from an individual from a higher realm whom I believe to be Erasmus and who was sent to help me by a very elevated intelligence. This is not mainly for my personal benefit but because it is deemed that there needs to be a demonstration by someone that this path through The Aetherius Society leads to enlightenment and beyond. If it is Erasmus, it is because he lived in the West and practised a life of working for God through teaching and service, rather than the Eastern saddhu for example. Whether it is known by historians or not, he would have attained a samadhic condition in that life even though he would not have called it such, or have been aware of kundalini and the psychic centres, per se. Having said that his oft-quoted statement that in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king, is a result of realisation – the one eye being the third eye – even though few, if any, recognise it as such. The guidance I received from Erasmus was to first purify the channels before attempting to see the third eye, purifying the channels each time. This can be done simply through the visualisation of white light and/or the violet flame practice and doesn’t need to be linked to any breathing exercise or visualisation. His second piece of advice to me was to visualise a rise of kundalini to the christ centre before attempting to see it. Again, this does not have to be linked to any breathing exercise or visualisation. Two simple pieces of advice which make perfect sense and which I have tried. A couple of days ago, I had a very good, vivid vision of the third eye, not in symbolic form but as it is. I’ve seen this for very short periods of time before but not nearly as vividly as this and, on this occasion, it was deliberately sought rather than, as it were, just happening during my practices. It was a colour somewhere between violet and purple in what appeared to be a small circular disc, perhaps half an inch in diameter. It was bright, alive with internal movement, swirling a bit, though along the lines our Master has described of a vortex like water leaving the plughole of a sink or bath, though not as definite as that. I’ve tried, based on the Nine Freedoms and prior to this experience, to see yellow as well as purple because those are the colours Mars Sector 6 specifies for this centre – the three faces being purple and yellow and purple. The colours I’ve seen and I’m trying to do this has been more orange than yellow, though on one occasion it was lighter than that, maybe golden. But these experiences were not clear or vivid like my description above. I am working on the assumption, at the moment, that the three faces are not positioned adjacent to each other, but within each other. There is a small purple face laid inside a yellow face which is itself laid inside a larger purple face. I’ve seen a suggestion of that arrangement without those colours being clearly depicted. It’s quite possible, though I don’t yet know, that one could focus on one of these faces at a time without being aware at that moment of the others. In other words, one could see the larger purple face on its own without seeing the other two, or the yellow face on its own without seeing the smaller purple face positioned within its circumference. These are things of which I am not yet sure, but I’ve more than an inkling about. This morning I’d decided to extend my practices with the intent of really honing-in on the third eye.
At about 8.30am I hit a block as though I was in a spiritual cul-de-sac. I don’t know whether I received higher guidance from an external source because I wasn’t focused on this, but I knew I could not proceed any further doing my practices. It was abundantly clear to me that I had to go into Aetherius House to arrange some Runs on the London SER. I did not tell others about my experience earlier that morning until after these Spiritual Energy Radiator Runs had been arranged – and even then I only told a handful – because it was essential that a decision as important as this was made by all the Senior Engineering Officers in the UK purely on the basis of whether the world situation warranted it. We arranged four Runs to alleviate world starvation starting this afternoon. In this arrangement we specified two current causes of world starvation: the blockage by Russia of Ukraine grain exports and the two-year civil war in Ethiopia. Within 24 hours Russia lifted its blockage in what the BBC described as “a surprise deal” and, against expectations, a truce was reached in the Ethiopian civil war, allowing food deliveries into that region. In Operation Space Power II it is sometimes difficult to tell just how much good is being done, though we implicitly have faith that it is. Sometimes you do get unarguable evidence of results. In this case, however, it is an obvious and indisputable one in that the only two things we specified in detail were unexpectedly resolved within hours. It bears comparison with the war in Cyprus which was stopped within eight hours by an Operation Prayer Power Discharge, in terms of its clear, some would say miraculous, outcome. Certainly it was a literal example of rejecting spiritual development for a far more important act of service, which I was honoured to be part of. The following day I had a vivid, relatively sustained vision of the third eye for the first time. |
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