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LIGHT
IN ORDER TO PASS FROM CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE
MAGNETIC
FIELD
TO THE BODY OF LIGHT
ONE
HAS TO BE AWARE OF BURNING WITH A BRIGHT FLAME
THAT
ONE HAS THE FEELING OF BEING INCANDESCENT
TRANSPARENT
A CRYSTAL
ONE HAS THE FEELING OF BEING POROUS AS A
MAGNETIC
FIELD
CRYSTALLINE OR TRANSLUCENT AS AN AURA
THE BODY OF LIGHT EXTENDS
THERE'S NO SKIN ON IT
NO EDGES
NO FRONTIER
IT EXUDES RAYS
IT RADIATES
WHEN WE SAY LIGHT, WE DON'T MEAN THE ELECTRIC LIGHT
OR
THE LIGHT OF THE SUN.
WE SPEAK ABOUT PEOPLE AND SAY: THIS PERSON HAS A LOT
OF
LIGHT IN HIM, SHE HAS A RADIANT SMILE: WE KNOW WHAT
WE
MEAN BY THAT, WE ARE WORKING WITH THE NOTION OF
LIGHT.
AND YOU YOURSELF KNOW WHAT IT IS TO HAVE LIGHT WITHIN
YOU, THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN YOU FEEL IT VERY
STRONGLY,
AND THEN THE DARK CLOUDS OF GLOOM COME ALONG AND
THERE
IS RESENTMENT AND DESPONDENCY AND THIS IS WRONG AND
THAT IS NOT RIGHT AND THIS PERSON IS UNFAIR TO ME AND
WHY IS
FATE SO CRUEL TO ME AND SO ON AND ON ...
THE SUN HAS LEFT
OUR CHIEF PROBLEM IN THESE PRACTICES IS TO AVOID
SIDE-
TRACKING INTO A PHANTASMAGORIA OF PURE FICTION.
HOW CAN
ONE EXPERIENCE ONE'S LIGHT FIELD, UNLESS ONE CHANNELS
THIS
FINE FACULTY OF INNER PERCEPTION IN SUCH A MANNER AS
TO
PROMOTE ITS ACTIVITY? AND IS NOT CREATIVE
IMAGINATION OR
REPRESENTATION PRE-STRUCTURED? MATHEMATICS IS
PURE
REPRESENTATION, YET HAS PRACTICAL APPLICATION,
BECAUSE IT
CONSISTS IN THE PERCEPTION OF THE STRUCTURE INHERENT
IN
PHYSICAL REALITY, SENSED IN TRANSCENDENT AREAS OF
THE MIND, TRANSCENDENT PLANES OF BEING.
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE SOUL PROJECTS ITS INTERNAL
STRUCTURE
AND NATURE IN THE NEAREST POSSIBLE TANGIBLE WAY: AS
AN
IMAGE WHICH CAN ONLY BE THE SHADOW OF WHAT IS?
COULD WE
HYPOTHESIZE THAT, AS OUR INTUITION GRASPS EVANESCENT
VALUES, REACHING FURTHER AND FURTHER BEYOND THE
PHYSICAL, CREATIVE IMAGINATION PROJECTS THESE INTO
FORMS
WHICH THEY ARE NOT, YET WHICH APPROXIMATE THESE JUST
AS
THE OUTLINE OF THE FACE APPROXIMATES ITS COUNTENANCE.
WHEN WE LET OURSELVES BE CAUGHT UP IN THE FEATURES,
WE
MISS OUT ON THE COUNTENANCE. SIMILARLY OUR
REPRESENTATIONS
OF LIGHT MAY BETRAY REAL EXPERIENCE, YET IF WE ARE
ABLE TO REALIZE OURSELVES IN OUR LIGHT NATURE,
INSTEAD OF
INDULGING IN THE HALLUCINATORY FORMS THAT MAY ARISE
IN
OUR PRACTICES, THEN WE PROCEED FROM IMAGINATION
TO EXPERIENCE.
THE AIM OF THESE PRACTICES WITH LIGHT IS
TO ENVISION ONESELF AS A PURE LIGHT
PART OF THE WORLDS OF LIGHT
BY BECOMING SENSITIVE TO ONE'S NATURAL LUMINOSITY, TO
DISCOVER
WITHIN ONESELF A SENSE OF TRANSPARENCY WITHIN THE
SPACES BETWEEN THE ATOMS OR CELLS OF THE BODY.
THE METHOD WE ADOPT WILL BE TO RECAPTURE REAL
EXPERIENCES THAT TRIGGER OFF SIMILAR EXPERIENCES
WITHIN,
RATHER THAN IMAGINING THESE INNER EXPERIENCES.
WE HAVE
ALL BEEN EXPOSED AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER TO THE
SHEER THRILL OF BEING LIT UP
INTENSELY,
BY THE HEADLIGHTS OF A CAR, THE FLASH OF A STROBE,
POWERFUL SPOTS, BLAZING ARCS
THE ATOMIC FLASH.
IT IS SUCH A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE BECAUSE IT MAKES ONE
SUDDENLY AWARE OF AN ASPECT OF ONE'S BEING THAT MOST
TIMES REMAINS UNCONSCIOUS
OUR LUMINOSITY
THAT IS WHAT IS CALLED IN ESOTERIC SCHOOLS
AURIC CONSCIOUSNESS, CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE AURA
HERE OUR EXERCISES BEGIN
 
RECOLLECT AND RELIVE AN EXPERIENCE
IN WHICH YOU WERE FLOODED
BY THE GLARE OF A LIGHT.
RECALL HOW YOU FELT
WHEN LIGHTED UP,
THE EMERGENCE OF YOUR FEELING OF EFFULGENCE,
AS THOUGH YOU WERE DISCOVERING YOURSELF
AS SOMETHING YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN:
A LUMINOUS BEING
RADIATING
RADIATING
LIKE A RADIO-ACTIVE SUBSTANCE
THE FORCE OF THE EXPERIENCE IS IN THE BLINDING
INTENSITY OF
THE LIGHT RELIVED, AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE'S COURAGE IN
FACING IT: MORE SO, GOING RIGHT INTO IT, LIKE A
MOTH INTO A
FLAME, LETTING YOURSELF BE BATHED, NAY, BURNED
WITH
LIGHT.
THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT YOU BECOME FLOODED
WITH LIGHT, BLINDED WITH LIGHT, EXPERIENCE THAT
WONDERFUL JOY BEING DRUNKEN,
STONED BY LIGHT.
AS PLOTINUS SAID: ONLY EYES THAT HAVE BECOME LIKE
UNTO THE
SUN CAN LOOK INTO THE SUN.
THE MORE TRAUMATIC THE EXPERIENCE THE MORE IT WILL
ACT
AS A CATALYST BRINGING TO THE FORE THE AWARENESS OF A
LUMINOUS FIELD, SOMETIMES CALLED BY THE ESOTERICISTS
THE MANTLE OF GLORY
THE BODY OF RESURRECTION
WHICH NOT ONLY ENSHROUDS THE BODY AND THE ETHERIC
BODY
BUT ALSO INTERPENETRATES IT.
 
SUNYATA, THE VOID
BECOME LIKE A CRYSTAL,
CRYSTAL CLEAR,
TOTALLY RECEPTIVE TO THE PASSAGE OF LIGHT.
IN THE CRYSTAL THE MOLECULES HAVE
ALIGNED THEMSELVES
IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO ENABLE LIGHT WAVES
TO PASS.
MATTER HAS ADAPTED ITSELF TO BECOMING
TRANSPARENT TO LIGHT
INSTEAD OF VISUALIZING TRANSLUCENT ANGELS,
DISCOVER YOUR OWN ABILITY
TO LET LIGHT PASS THROUGH
YOUR PHYSICAL BODY.
BECOME NON-SOLID
LET THE BREEZE BLOW THROUGH YOU
THE LIGHT PASS THROUGH YOU
BECOME PURE SPIRIT
AT THIS STAGE ONE MAY FEEL A SENSE OF EFFULGENCE
THROUGHOUT, SOMEWHAT LIKE THE RING OF LIGHT BROKEN UP
INTO FLAMES AROUND THE SUN. SO LONG AS ONE
STILL IDENTIFIES
ONESELF WITH ONE'S BODY IT WILL APPEAR THAT THE BODY
IS
SURROUNDED BY A SHEATH OR SHROUD OF LUMINESCENCE.
THIS IS
THE MOMENT TO IDENTIFY UNCONDITIONALLY WITH THE
LUMINOUS
BODY. CONCENTRATE ON BOTH THE LIGHT OUTSIDE AND
INSIDE THE BODY AS A CONTINUOUS WHOLE, AND LIKEN THE
BODY
TO A TRANSLUCENT CRYSTAL WHICH THE LIGHT
INTERPENETRATES AND OUTREACHES.
EXPERIENCE THE PENETRATION OF THE RAYS OF LIGHT
THAT ARE
REACHING INTO THE BODY LIKE
X-RAYS
DISCOVER THE TRANSPARENCY OF YOUR BODY, ITS
POROUSNESS, AS
THOUGH THERE WERE SPACES BETWEEN THE CELLS, BETWEEN
THE ATOMS.
THIS WILL STRENGTHEN YOU IN THE CONVICTION THAT YOU
ARE A
BEING OF LIGHT AND WILL BRING BACK THE MEMORY OF
THOSE
PLANES OF LIGHT THROUGH WHICH YOU PASSED, NOT ONLY ON
THE WAY DOWN TOWARDS INCARNATION, BUT IN WHICH
YOU STILL ARE.
EXPERIENCE YOURSELF AS BEING CREATED OUT OF THIS
SPLENDOR
-- IT IS THE BEING OF GOD LOOKING THROUGH YOUR EYES,
NOT LOOKING DOWN UPON THE PHYSICAL PLANE, BUT LOOKING
INTO A
CERTAIN LEVEL WHERE THE FORMS OF ALL BEINGS ARE
BORN AND EMERGE. DON'T FALL BACK ON IT, JUST GO
RIGHT INTO
IT, GO RIGHT INTO THE PICTURE AND GIVE FREE
EXPRESSION TO
THE ANGEL IN YOU. DO NOT STAY BEHIND LIKE THE
SPECTATOR
THAT IS ON THE EARTH LOOKING INTO THE SKY, LET
YOURSELF BE
DRAWN INTO THE PICTURE, NOT AS A BODY, BUT AS
A BEING OF LIGHT.
THE RELEVANT PRACTICES AT THIS STAGE ARE A KIND OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL CATHARSIS: TO BRING ABOUT A SENSE OF
CRYSTALLINE
CLEARNESS BY ELIMINATING DARKNESS AND OPACITY.
THE STRENGTH OF YOUR LIGHT CAN LOOK INTO THE LIGHT,
IT
OPENS UP ALL THE DARK RECESSES,
THERE IS NO REASON TO HIDE ANYTHING
ANY
MORE.
IT'S ALL OPEN
YOU ARE COMING INTO THE OPEN FROM THE DARKNESS.
IT'S NOT
IMAGINATION BUT A TRANSFORMATION OF YOUR BEING.
IT
DOESN'T HAVE TO TAKE ANY TIME, YOU CAN DO AWAY WITH
ANY
DARKNESS RIGHT NOW. EVERYTHING IS COMING TO
LIGHT NOW
VERY CLEARLY.
THIS IS THE MOMENT TO SEE THINGS CLEARLY
WASH THE EYES WITH LIGHT
FEEL THE CLARIFYING ACTION OF LIGHT UPON EYES THAT
MAY
HAVE BECOME DULLED BY EGO, STRIFE OR EVIL AND UGLY
IMPRESSIONS. WASH THE EYES WITH LIGHT UNTIL
THEY BECOME
COMPLETELY CLEAN, COMPLETELY PURE
THE EYES OF A CHILD
THE GLANCE OF INNOCENCE
WASH THE HEART CENTER WITH LIGHT, FEEL THE EFFECT OF
LIGHT UPON THIS CENTER, WHICH OPENS UP LIKE A
SUNFLOWER
WHEN EXPOSED TO LIGHT. EXPERIENCE THE EXTENSION
OF THE
RAYS FORWARD THROUGH THE SHOULDERS, THE SHOULDER
BLADES,
DEPICTED BY ARTISTS AS THE WINGS OF ANGELS.
FLOOD THE
CROWN CENTER WITH LIGHT. IT SHOULD REACT BY
FLASHING MORE INTENSELY THAN USUAL.
CONCENTRATION SHOULD BE FOCALIZED 5-1/2 INCHES
ABOVE THE SKULL
THE WASHING OF THE CHAKRAS WITH LIGHT IS PART OF A
GREATER EXPERIENCE, WHICH IS WASHING THE EMOTIONS
FROM
ANYTHING THAT IS NOT TOTALLY BEAUTIFUL, MAKING OUR
EMOTIONS
LUMINOUS, SUBJECTING THEM TO THE TEST OF
AUTHENTICITY.
ANYTHING THAT FALLS SHORT OF TOTAL AUTHENTICITY
JUST HAS TO BE REMOVED.
IT IS AS THOUGH ONE WERE LOOKING THROUGH A ROUND DOOR
INTO A WORLD OF LIGHT WHICH IN TURN SEEMS LIKE A DOOR
OPENING ONTO
A STILL SUBTLER WORLD OF LIGHT
ONE'S ATTENTION MAY SHIFT TO THE THIRD EYE.
ONE WILL NOTICE THAT IT IS CONNECTED
WITH THE CROWN CENTER
AS THOUGH IT MIGHT BE
ITS EXTENSION,
IT APPEARS LIKE A BEAM
GENERALLY PURPORTED TO FLASH FORWARD
FROM THE PINEAL GLAND.
ROTATE YOUR EYEBALLS UPWARDS,
SLIGHTLY CONVERGING THEM TOWARDS THE FONTANELLE,
AND ORIENT THE BEAM RIGHT THROUGH THE CORONARY CAVITY
UPWARDS.
SOMETIMES IT SEEMS THAT WE ARE FOCUSED TO A HIGHER
PLANE,
YET SEE NOTHING BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE THE TRAINING,
JUST
AS A CHILD HAS TO LEARN TO REALIZE WHAT HE SEES,
WHICH
FOR A BABY MAY APPEAR A BLUR. YET WE MAY LEARN
TO DISCERN
THE PROFILES, MODES AND COLORATIONS OF HIGHER PLANES
BY
TRAINING TO AWAKEN FROM OUR EVERYDAY CONSCIOUSNESS,
WRONGLY CALLED THE WAKING STATE. CHUANG TZU
DREAMT HE
WAS A BUTTERFLY, AND WHEN HE AWOKE HE DID NOT KNOW
WHETHER HE WAS A MAN WHO HAD DREAMT THAT HE WAS A
BUTTERFLY
OR A BUTTERFLY DREAMING THAT HE WAS A MAN. IF
WE
COULD REMEMBER IN DIURNAL CONSCIOUSNESS WHAT OUR
DIURNAL
CONSCIOUSNESS APPEARED LIKE TO US WHEN WE WERE
DREAMING, WE WOULD REMEMBER WHEN IN DIURNAL
CONSCIOUSNESS
THAT WE HAD THE IMPRESSION IN OUR SO-CALLED
DREAM CONSCIOUSNESS OF AWAKENING FROM DIURNAL
CONSCIOUSNESS AS FROM A DREAM.
ATTENTION WILL TEND TO TRAVEL FROM ONE AREA OF THE
AURA
TO THE OTHER, BRINGING ITS DETAILED STRUCTURE MORE
PARTICULARLY
INTO VIEW: THE RADIATION FROM SHOULDERS AND
SHOULDER BLADES LINKED WITH THE HEART CENTER (ANAHATA),
COUNTERWEIGHED BY THE SYPHONISING EFFECT OF THE SOLAR
PLEXUS (MANIPURA) AS A SEA OF FIRE WITHIN, REACHING
RIGHT
DOWN INTO THE CENTER AT THE BASE OF THE SPINE (MULADHARA).
AND CONTRASTING WITH THESE: THE SUPERIOR POLE,
THE CROWN CENTER (SAHASRARA) GUSHING UPWARDS FROM
THE FONTANELLE LIKE A FOUNTAIN OF BRIGHT LIGHT AND
FALLING BACK INTO A SPRAY OF MULTICOLORED DROPLETS
EFFUSING
THE CENTRIFUGAL RADIATION FROM THE HEART AND
FALLING AROUND THE SHOULDERS WITH A FINE MANTILLA OF
LUMINOUS FLUID OF AMAZING HUES. THIS CENTER
SEEMS TO BE
MULTIDIMENSIONAL, SO THAT SHOULD ONE DISPLACE ONE'S
FOCUS UPWARDS, ONE DISCOVERS AT EACH FURTHER LEVEL,
LIKE
THE REFLEX OF THE PREVIOUS LUMINARY, EVER MORE SUBTLE
AND
REMOTE WORLDS OF SPLENDOR.
SOME OF US MAY REMEMBER HOW IN THE MORNING WE COULD
SHIFT OUR CONSCIOUSNESS OVER THE THRESHOLD FROM A
DREAM
TO DIURNAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND VICE-VERSA UNDER THE
IMPULSE
OF A SEMI-UNCONSCIOUS WILL. WE SEEM TO ASSUME A
DIFFERENT PERSONALITY IN DREAM CONSCIOUSNESS, FREER,
MORE DARING, EMANCIPATED FROM THE SENSE OF
IMPOSSIBILITY
WHICH HEMS US INTO FOSSILIZED PATTERNS IN EVERYDAY
THINKING AND BEHAVIOR. WE MAKE THINGS HAPPEN BY
WISHING
THEM, BECAUSE HERE WE ARE NOT ONLY THE OBSERVER OF
WHAT
WE EXPERIENCE BUT ALSO THE CREATOR. IN OUR
CREATIVITY
WE PROLONG THE MAGIC ACTION OF THE CREATOR OF MAYA IN
THE OVERFLOW OF HIS IMAGINATION, WHICH IS ALL THAT
REALITY
IS, WAS, AND EVER WILL BE: THE DANCE OF SHIVA.
HERE
WE AFFIRM A NOBLER DIMENSION OF BEING THAN IN
PERCEIVING,
FOR WE ARE NO MORE A PUPPET REACTING TO 'OUTSIDENESS',
BUT
ACTIVELY INSTRUMENTAL IN
PROJECTING 'OUTSIDE' WHAT IS GLEANED INSIDE.
IN ORDER TO EFFECT THIS PROPENSITY WE HAVE TO APPLY A
DIFFERENT SETTING OF CONSCIOUSNESS ONTO THE
UNCONSCIOUS
BORDERLINE AREAS WHERE THE RICHNESS OF CREATION IS
HELD
IN ABEYANCE BEFORE IT MAY FIND A PHYSICAL
CONFIGURATION
TO FOSTER ITS EXISTENTIATION AS A PHYSICAL REALITY,
AND WE
MUST ALSO APPLY A DIFFERENT WILL THAN THE CONSCIOUS
WILL,
WHICH IS INEFFECTIVE AS SOON AS ONE CROSSES THE
THRESHOLD
BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS. THE REASON
IS THAT THE
FIGURATIONS OF THE CREATIVE FORMS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
ARE
GOVERNED BY A HIGHER WILL AND CONFORM TO THE LAWS OF
A
HIGHER ORDER THAN IS ALLOCATED TO THE VERY LIMITED
SCOPE
OF ACTION OF OUR CONSCIOUS WILL. WHILE FANTASY
IS THE
OUTCOME OF THE CAPRICIOUS PLAY OF OUR HUMAN DIURNAL
WILL WITHIN THE LIMITS OF ITS FIELD OF ACTION,
CREATIVE
IMAGINATION SPARKS THE CREATIVE FLOW IN ITS WOMB, IN
ITS
INCOMPARABLY WIDER DIMENSIONS, FORCING A WAY FOR IT
INTO
THE SYNAPSES OF OUR CONSCIOUS MIND, WHICH HAS TO
READAPT
ITSELF IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE IT, GIVING BIRTH TO
CLEARER REPRESENTATIONS THAN OUR HUMAN WILL
COULD EVER FOSTER.
WE CARRY WITHIN US
DIM AND SHIFTING INTUITIONS OR THESE GREATER
PERFECTIONS
BEYOND THOSE NORMALLY SEEN OR EXPERIENCED ON EARTH
WE TRY TO GRASP THEM WHILE REMAINING IN OUR EVERYDAY
CONSCIOUSNESS, AND ATTRIBUTE OUR FAILURE TO THE ASSUMPTION
THAT THEY MUST HAVE BEEN PURE CONJECTURE, ASTRAL
FANTASY OR WISHFUL THINKING, AND SUFFER FOR WANT OF
GIVING
THEM EXPRESSION IN OURSELVES, FOR THEY ARE KNOCKING
AT
OUR DOOR, OFFERING TO FERTILIZE US WITH THEIR BOUNTY,
AND
OUR FEELING OF SLIPPING FAILURE IS NATURE'S WAY OF
REMINDING
US OF THE URGENCY OF FULFILLING THIS IMPERATIVE HUMAN
NEED.
UNDOUBTEDLY A PART OF OURSELVES IS CONTINUALLY ACTING
CONSCIOUSLY AT THESE LEVELS WORKING BACKSTAGE OF OUR
PERSONALITY, AND IF WE COULD INTEGRATE ITS EXPERIENCE
INTO
OUR EVERYDAY AWARENESS, AS IS OUR MENTAL
CONSCIOUSNESS
WITH OUR BODY CONSCIOUSNESS, WE WOULD BECOME MORE AND
MORE CREATIVE OF EVER GREATER BEAUTY, RICHNESS AND
LUMINOSITY,
RIGHT DOWN INTO OUR PERSONALITY.
IT IS THEN A MATTER OF NEUTRALIZING THE CRITICAL
RESISTANCE OF THE
CONSCIOUS MIND IN ORDER TO MAKE ACCOMMODATION IN IT
FOR THE
UNIVERSAL DIMENSIONS OF CREATIVE IMAGINATION, AND
THEN REACH UP
AND FLOW OUT INTO THE PLACE
WHERE THE COSMIC PATTERNS
OF ALL CREATED THINGS
ARISE ON THE HORIZONS OF ONE'S VISION.
THE IMAGINATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND AND THE
UNCONSCIOUS WILL HAS MUCH
MORE COURAGE THAN THE INDIVIDUAL WILL BECAUSE IT HAS
A VISION OF IMMENSITY
AS OPPOSED TO THE VISION OF NARROWNESS OF THE
INDIVIDUAL WILL. IF YOU
TRUST THE ACTION OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL FORCES IN YOU
TO PROJECT VISION
INTO YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND, AND THEN IF YOU HAVE THE
COURAGE TO BELIEVE IN
THE IMPOSSIBLE, YOU WILL BRING THE VISIONS OF YOUR
SOUL RIGHT DOWN ONTO
THE SCREEN OF YOUR MIND AND SEE IT ALL WITH PERFECT
CLARITY. YOU WILL
BECOME WHAT YOU SEE, THAT IS THE SECRET OF BECOMING,
YOU BECOME WHAT YOU
THINK MAY BE YOUR VISION, BUT IT IS THE VISION OF GOD
WITHIN YOU.
THERE ARE ONLY TWO THINGS
TO BE DONE
THE NECESSARY
AND THE IMPOSSIBLE
(IBN L'ARABI)
CLEARLY NOW IT IS A MATTER OF KEEPING THE DOOR OPEN
BETWEEN UNCONSCIOUS AND CONSCIOUS, SO THAT THE
ELUSIVE
PATTERNS OF THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS MAY FLOW INTO
THE CONSCIOUS. AS THE CONSCIOUS WILL CANNOT
OPERATE BEYOND
THE THRESHOLD BETWEEN THESE, ONE HAS TO TRUST
ONESELF TO AN UNCONSCIOUS WILL WHICH CAN ONLY BE
TRIGGERED
OFF BY AN AUTOSUGGESTION OF THE CONSCIOUS WILL,
AFTER WHICH THE CONSCIOUS WILL MUST RETIRE,
ABSTAINING
FROM ANY FURTHER INTERVENTION. ONCE THE
CONSCIOUS WILL
OF A PIANIST HAS TRAINED HIS FINGERS, AN AUTOMATION
TAKES
PLACE, TRANSFERRING CONTROL OF THE PLAYING TO THE
UNCONSCIOUS
WILL. SHOULD HE THEN INTERFERE WITH HIS
CONSCIOUS
WILL, HE WOULD DISTURB THE COURSE OF THE BUILT-UP
PATTERN OF ACTION WHICH THE UNCONSCIOUS WILL CAN NOW
PERFORM MUCH BETTER THAN THE CONSCIOUS WILL.
YET THE
CONSCIOUS, CEASING TO WILL, CAN ACT PASSIVELY BY
OBSERVING
OR LISTENING, CAN EVEN EXERCISE AN ACTION AT A
DIFFERENT
LEVEL ALTOGETHER, ON AN OVERALL SCALE. FOR
EXAMPLE,
IT CAN CONTROL ACCENTUATION AND PUNCTUATION, OR
MUSICAL INTERPRETATION IN GENERAL.
PRECISELY THE SAME APPLIES HERE TO THE CONTEMPLATIVE:
YOU
MUST MAINTAIN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS AT THE THRESHOLD
BETWEEN
CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS. OBVIOUSLY IF YOU
SHIFT
TOWARD THE UNCONSCIOUS, THE CONSCIOUS BECOMES
UNCONSCIOUS,
YOU CANNOT BRING YOUR EXPERIENCE THROUGH TO YOUR
DIURNAL MEMORY, AND CONSEQUENTLY FALL INTO THE STATE
OF
SLEEP. SHOULD YOU SHIFT TOO FAR TOWARDS THE
CONSCIOUS,
WHICH HAPPENS IF YOU REGAIN IDENTIFICATION, YOU LOSE
HOLD
ON THE PATTERNS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS.
BY SUSPENDING ONESELF AT THE THRESHOLD
ONE KEEPS THE DOOR OPEN BETWEEN THE TWO
BY TRYING TO INTRODUCE CONSCIOUSNESS INTO THE
UNCONSCIOUS,
THE SETTING SHIFTS IMMEDIATELY TOWARD THE CONSCIOUS.
BY LOSING A HOLD OF THE CONSCIOUS, THE DOOR IS
CLOSED IRRETRIEVABLY. THERE MUST BE A CONSCIOUS
CONTROL
OVER THE UNCONSCIOUS WILL, TRAINING IT TO GLEAN
ARCHETYPAL
PATTERNS IN THE UNCONSCIOUS AND PROJECT THEM INTO
IMAGES IN THE CONSCIOUS. TO PERFORM THIS
ORIENTATING ACTION,
THE CONSCIOUS WILL HAS NO OTHER MEANS WITHIN ITS
GRASP THAN TO CATALYZE THE FLOW OF ARCHETYPES BY
MUSING
UPON THE IMAGES WITH WHICH IT IS FAMILIAR, SELECTING
IMAGES WHICH TEND TO CONJURE INFINITE ELUSIVE
AND
INSPIRATIONAL REMINISCENCES OF OTHER DIMENSIONS.
 
YOU BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE WIDER RANGES OF THE UNIVERSE
WHICH ARE ALL WITHIN YOUR REACH
WIDER RANGES OF YOUR SELF
REMEMBER THE BARDO THODOL. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE
COURAGE TO FACE THE CLEAR LIGHT, THEN YOU WILL BE
REMOVED TO WHATEVER PLANE CORRESPONDS TO YOUR ASPIRATIONS,
AND IF THOSE PLANES ARE PLANES OF SPLENDOR YOU WILL
BE LED INTO EXPERIENCING THE INCREDIBLE LUMINOUS BEINGS
OF THE HIGHER REALMS OF THE HEAVENS; AND IF YOU ARE
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE SPICY, THEN YOU MAY
START FINDING YOURSELF ON PLANES WHERE YOU EXPERIENCE
THROUGH THE SENSES; AND IF EVEN THAT IS NOT QUITE ENOUGH,
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF IN DEMONIC WORLDS ... AFTER ALL,
SOME OF US SEEK THIS IN THE MOVIES.
YOU WILL ALWAYS LAND ON THE LEVEL
THAT CORRESPONDS TO YOUR BEING
IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU WANT
IF YOU ARE SEEKING FOR THE WAY OF ILLUMINATION,
THEN THIS IS THE WAY,
THE WAY IS OPEN TO YOU
BY BECOMING AWARE OF YOURSELF AS
A BEING OF LIGHT.
IMMEDIATELY YOUR WHOLE BEHAVIOR WILL BEGIN TO CHANGE,
YOU WILL BEGIN TO CORRECT THINGS THAT ARE NOT IN KEEPING
WITH THE BEING OF LIGHT THAT YOU KNOW YOU ARE. ONE MAY
FORGET IT AND THEN REITERATE THE EXPERIENCE AGAIN AND
AGAIN, UNTIL IT BECOMES SO DEEPLY IMBUED THAT ONE HAS TO
READJUST ONE'S WHOLE LIFE IN KEEPING WITH ONE'S EXPERIENCE.
THIS IS AN ESSENTIALLY CREATIVE PROCESS.
VISIONS OF LIGHT
COLORS AND LANDSCAPES OF LIGHT
TEMPLES OF LIGHT
ILLUMINATED FACES
ALL KINDS OF VISIONS OF THAT KIND THAT MAY OR MAY NOT ARISE.
WHETHER THEY ARISE OR NOT IS NOT IN ANY WAY AN INDICATION
AS TO WHETHER YOU ARE ILLUMINATED OR NOT.
THE KEY IS NOT TO SEE IMAGES
THE KEY IS TO BECOME LUMINOUS IN YOUR BEING
THIS WILL NO DOUBT OPEN UP AN AWARENESS OF THE ANGELIC
PLANES; THE REASON BEING, AS BUDDHA SAID, THAT IF YOU REACH
THE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS CORRESPONDING TO A PLANE, YOU
EXPERIENCE WHAT IS ON THAT PLANE. IF YOU BECOME TOTALLY
LUMINOUS, YOU BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE THE CONDITION OF THOSE
ANGELS THAT ARE CALLED ANGELS OF LIGHT.
IF YOU BECOME
TOTALLY IMMACULATE, BEYOND EMOTION, YOU EXPERIENCE THE
CONDITION OF
THE ANGELS OF PEACE.
  
STAY SUSPENDED AT THE THRESHOLD
THESE VISIONS OF BEAUTY START RUSHING THROUGH YOU
-- CLOUDS FROM OFF THE OCEAN --
YOU ARE RAPT IN A CONTEMPLATION OF PURE SPLENDOR
TYPICAL EXAMPLES OF IMAGES TO CONJURE WOULD BE
THOSE WONDROUS PANORAMIC SCENES OF A
BREATHTAKING
SUNRISE OR SUNSET WHERE THE SKY BREAKS INTO A FLURRY
OF
THE MOST AMAZING MULTICOLORED HUES OF INFINITE SHADES
AND PATTERNS.
WHY DO THEY AFFECT US SO PROFOUNDLY, IF NOT THAT
THEY REVIVE IN US AN EXPERIENCE
PRESERVED IN THE UNCONSCIOUS STRATA OF MEMORY
FOR SO LONG
SUDDENLY EMERGING
AT THE SPECTACLE OF THEIR LIKENESS IN THE PHYSICAL
WORLD.
AS ONE HOVERS OVER THE THRESHOLD, THE CONSCIOUS
REPRESENTATION OF THE SUNRISE OR SUNSET WILL
TRIGGER OFF THE UNCONSCIOUS PATTERNS OF
A LANDSCAPE OF THE SOUL
WHICH WILL FLOW THROUGH TO OUR AWARENESS,
PROVIDING WE
ABANDON ANY FURTHER CONSCIOUS ACTION AND CEASE
IDENTIFYING
OURSELVES WITH OUR BODY OR MIND CONSCIOUSNESS.
IT
IS THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNLIKELY, UNREAL AND
IDEALISTIC,
EVEN IDYLLIC, WHICH THE CRITICAL MIND WILL ENSURE
IF ONE SHIFTS THE SETTING BACK TO
THE CONSCIOUS.
 
MAINTAIN YOURSELF
ABOVE THE THRESHOLD
CONTIGUOUS TO IT
SURVEYING BODY AND MIND FROM THIS VANTAGE POINT
INSTEAD OF INTRODUCING DIURNAL CONSCIOUSNESS INTO
DREAM CONSCIOUSNESS, ONE INTRODUCES DREAM
CONSCIOUSNESS
INTO DIURNAL CONSCIOUSNESS. AFTER THE CONSCIOUS
HAS
TRAINED THE UNCONSCIOUS INTO SKIRTING THE BORDERLINE,
THE UNCONSCIOUS TRAINS THE CONSCIOUS TO SUPERIMPOSE
ITS
DEEPER VISION UPON ITS OWN. IT IS AS THOUGH THE
INNER EYE
WERE ABLE TO CONTEMPLATE
A TRANSFIGURED LANDSCAPE OF LIGHT
WHILE VAGUELY PERCEIVING THE EARTHLY PANORAMA, WHICH
LOOKS LIKE ITS PETRIFICATION IN A DIMINISHED
DIMENSIONALITY,
LIKE A THREE DIMENSIONAL WORLD TO BE THE PROJECTION
OF A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ONE AT A DIMENSION YOU CAN
ONLY GRASP IN DREAM CONSCIOUSNESS. BEING IN
ONE'S DREAM
CONSCIOUSNESS ONE IS NOT CONSCIOUS OF BEING SITUATED
AT
ANY POINT OF PHYSICAL SPACE AND THEREFORE CAN
DISPLACE
ONE'S CENTER
WITHIN THE LANDSCAPE
SUCH IS THE WAY OF ACCESS TO THE HEAVENLY SPHERES OF
CELESTIAL SPLENDOR. THEY CAN BE REACHED BY A KEEN
CONTEMPLATIVE
AT THE PRICE OF UNSPARING TRAINING AND INDOMITABLE
PERSEVERANCE, USING THE WILL TO NEUTRALIZE
THAT VERY WILL AND LET A MORE COSMIC ONE TAKE OVER. IT
SEEMS AT FIRST AS THOUGH ONE WERE REVIVING MEMORIES OF
PRISTINE CONDITIONS OF THE SOUL STORED IN THE DEEPER STRATA
OF THE UNCONSCIOUS, UNTIL ONE REALIZES THAT PARTS OF
ONE'S COMPOSITE BEING STILL FUNCTION AT THESE LEVELS. IT'S
JUST A MATTER OF FINDING THE CORRESPONDING STATE
OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
DISCOVER YOUR SELF AS A BEING OF LIGHT
NOT AS AN AURA BUT AS A PURE LUMINOUS CONSCIOUSNESS WHICH
LIGHTS UP ALL THINGS AS IT TURNS TOWARDS THEM. ALL THE REST
IS JUST THE LAMP THE SCAFFOLDING, THE OUTSIDE,
THE WRAPPING
THE LAMP THROUGH WHICH GOD SEES
IT HAS TO BE JUST AS LUMINOUS AS THE EYES WHICH SEE THROUGH
IT. IT IS A STATE IN WHICH YOU FEEL THAT WHEREVER YOU WALK,
YOU ARE BRINGING A LIGHT THAT SHINES, THAT THRUSTS A LIGHT
UPON YOUR PATH, AND WHEREVER YOU TURN YOUR FACE YOU ARE
CASTING THE FLOODLIGHT OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS UPON ALL
THINGS. AND EVERYTHING BECOMES CRYSTAL CLEAR. YOU SEE
RIGHT INTO THE INSIDE OF THINGS,
RIGHT INTO THE DEPTHS OF MATTER,
INTO THE SOULS OF BEINGS.
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