Friday, March 21, 2008

Holographic vision

The past year or so my mission has been to draw the attention out from inside the light body, in front, and then mirror it back toward the light body. That allows one to have the experience of setting up the layers of the light body. When we physically see things, we take that for granted and we don’t think too much about the mechanics of how we see. But if you’ve ever been around people who are visually impaired, it becomes clear that seeing is very subjective, because there are areas where they can’t focus. They do a lot of filling in the blanks. The brain fills in what would normally be there. Because they’re more cognizant of that, it brings more awareness to the process of seeing. In esoteric terms, we don’t think of subtle seeing as having to do with the brain or eyes. We think of it as more of a consciousness experience, which it is, but I think it does have to do with the brain and the eyes. In order to open up subtle vision, you have to retrain the brain and eyes.

One of the ways that the subtle body expresses being is from outside the body looking back towards the body. Part of the camera is out in front looking back towards the self. When we hear the term “self-referral” we think of it as internal. But think of self-referral externally. There is a self-referencing part of consciousness that is observing the wholeness of the expression of consciousness from out here looking back at itself. Each time that reference point looks back at itself, a window appears. I was thinking about this today because I was on the new Vista operating system, and it functions a lot like this. You’re out here, observing the screen, and then a vista opens up and you can tile another vista on it. This is simulating consciousness and the mechanism of layering of knowledge in a field.

This layering process where attention goes out here and you’re focusing back towards yourself is a very ancient idea. There are a lot of practices that utilize this. When you reference from out here and you look back at the self, you’re stretching your field of vision, causing it to move out in front, and when it looks back it has an elastic movement like an accordion, back and forth. In that back and forth movement of the eyes and the coordination of the nervous system, both subtle and gross, openings start to appear in awareness that have to do with subtle perception. What happens is that vision becomes more like a hologram. Most of the time people think of holograms as an extraordinary expression, like in a science fiction movie or in a dream sequence. But normal vision is a hologram; it only becomes three dimensional because of how the brain interprets the messages.

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