Philosophy

Summer time’s for playing; Not necessarily for reading! Even through we’ve had a great collection of warm sunny days, I still found just enough down time to wrap up the last few pages of Hands of Light.

I’ve got mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, I believe she could have used half as many words to describe the same thing and, she repeated herself a number of times in different sections through the various chapters. But on the other hand, she’s got an interesting point of view that comes across in a comfortably neutral way. She’s easy to believe even if you don’t have the high sensory perception that she claims to have developed.

And that’s the puzzling part. Can a high sensory perception be developed? Or is it something that you’re just born with? She gives a number of exercises that the reader should try, so I just might have to put some time in ‘practicing’ these different techniques. Who knows, maybe her techniques will work.

Notables:

When people form relationships with each other, they grow cords out of the chakras that connect them.

I’m willing to bet that the strength of the relationship is (probably) directly correlated to the amount of energy that flows through these cords. I would also venture to guess that because it’s light energy, the ‘thoughts’ that travel this link may be the types of thoughts that people perceive as telepathy. Maybe.

Most of us react to unpleasant experiences by blocking our feeling and stopping a great deal of our natural energy flow. This affects the development and maturation of the chakras, resulting in inhibition of a fully balanced psychological function.

In other words, we carry our experiences with us as memories of thought comprised of light (or the absence of light) that affects how the energy flows around and through the body. If the energy flow around the body were natural and free-flowing, we would most likely not be in the need of healing. And healing isn’t necessarily physical. Stress is a mental condition that plays out with physical reactions. Why, it seems highly probable that if the energy that flows around the body is out of balance, the body would show some type of physical response.

If this center [She’s talking about the chakras] is clockwise, we will have a positive attitude about accomplishing things in life and see other people as supports for those accomplishments.

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On the other hand, if this center is counter-clockwise, the opposite is true.

It appears that the energy flows around the body have an influence on how a person perceives the world around them. This may help explain why two different people looking at the same glass of water my see it as being partly empty or partly full. Maybe the energy flow accentuates space or negative space.

The process of changing one’s belief system redirects chakra movement.

And later she states that a person’s belief’s affect how the chakras ‘spin.’ Well, of course they’re all related. The movement of the chakra’s energy is the belief system of the person played out in real time for everyone to see.

The aura is really the ‘missing link’ between biology and physical medicine and psychotherapy. It’s the ‘place’ where all the emotions, thoughts, memories and behavior patterns we discuss so endlessly in therapy are located. They’re not just suspended somewhere in our imaginations, but they are located in time and space. Thoughts and emotions move between people in time and space through the human energy field, and learning about it is the way to get a handle on this activity.

Thoughts really are things. I’m coming closer to believing that experiences are recorded and stored as light energy in the body, thus it might make sense that as the experiences are remembered, that light gets echoed – to the soul – thus it would radiate outward for all to ‘see’.

Someone that is sensitive to reading light should be able to get a general idea about how the remembered energy made the person feel. Or how the current thought pattern generates emotions that get played out – as light energy – as the people lives the experience.

From the article that I posted about food energy (Is food another form of light?), it might seem that in every cell of the body there exists sugars just waiting to be broken down into electromagnetic energy (light), but I now wonder more about the process by which the molecules give off their light. Does the light that went into making the sugar have to come out the same way? Or, may it be that the atoms that are giving up their electrons give up the energy in stages that corresponds with the mood of the person?

For instance, Barbara says that if a person is thinking, they give off a yellow type energy. Could it be that the vibration in the body triggers the cells to break down the sugars in such a way as to trigger it to release a proton that vibrates as a yellow light wave? Could it be that if the person is thinking, the type of energy that they need for this function is provided by the yellow light frequencies?

Could it also be that because the light radiates like a candle, the light would radiate inward to feed the central nervous system and some of it would escape the body to be seen by others. I’ll have to give this some more yellow light.

I found that people flash bright colors when they are engaged in feeling or actions. When they are quiet, the auric field returns to a stable ‘normal’ state for that person.

This is once again in line with my thinking. If a person is active, light that the cells would have to give off would be that suitable for that specific action. Likewise, if the person wants to generate an emotion, the cells of the body would have to generate the colors appropriate for that specific emotion.

Ever wonder why you feel exhausted after an emotional outburst? Ever wonder why you feel recharged after quieting your mind? It’s probably related to the speed in which your body can generate energy and how efficiently it can focus it on the specific target rather than simply radiating that energy out into space.

Here is another quote that stands out to me:

Figure 11-1A shows the normal aura of a man. As he sings (Figures 11.1B), his aura expands and brightens. Bright lightning-like flashes and sparks of iridescent blue-violet move off just after the movement of inhaling, before he starts each new line. As the audience becomes more attentive, its general aura expands. Great arcs of light reach out from the singer to the audience, and the two auras connect. Mutual forms begin to build as feelings flow between performer and audience. These energy-consciousness forms relate in structure and color to the mutual thoughts and feelings of the group and the music being created. At the end of the song, these forms are disconnected and broken up by the applause, which acts as an eraser to wipe the field clean for the next creation. Both performer and audience are energized by absorbing the energy created by the music. Some of this energy will be internalized to break blocks held in the body; some of it will be used for the next creation.

I can totally relate to this energy. I know it exists. I know there’s a feedback loop between performers and the audience, but it’s another thing ‘seeing’ it.

But what really stands out here is that this type of energy seems a bit different than what’s generated during an emotional outburst. The emotional outbursts are generally wildly out of control and the energy just flies everywhere as the person lets it all out. Whereas, the energy given off by the performer is focused and intentional. The best way to sum it up is that it’s energy art.

The act of focusing energy can really be seen be examining the performing arts. In order to stand out in the arts, you have to be able to generate emotion yet focus the energy generated on the performance – whatever it is.

The best part about all this is that anyone can focus energy. Feeling the energy comes by paying attention to the performance!

Related:

We stop our feelings by blocking our energy flow. This creates stagnated pools of energy in our systems which when held there long enough lead to disease in the physical body.

That’s like saying we are all performers and when we stop our individual performance, the universe no longer pays attention and there is no energy returned to amplify the glory of your existence. No performance – no energy returned.

Moving along, the author touching on a topic that’s very close to what turned my life around a couple years ago, she writes:

… if you unconsciously had something to do with making things the way they are, then you can have a great deal to do with creating things the way you want them to be.

How I would interpret that statement is – your life is never out of your control. Your thoughts, emotions and actions got you where you are today, your thoughts, emotions and actions will get you where you will be tomorrow.

I couple years ago, I spent a little time evaluating my life. I looked at my health and my mental state and realized in not all to different words from above that that I’d been doing it all wrong. Basically, if I was doing the right things, why did I not feel good? I didn’t feel good. Thus logic would have it that I wasn’t doing the right things! Coming to that realization made me humble again and willing to ask for help. Life has been a great uphill trek since then! Get the ego out of the way and, I swear, you’ll turn your life around and feel like a performer again!

I even found some good stuff in the healing chapter.

No matter how miraculous the result, the healer really induces the patient to heal himself through natural processes, even though they are beyond what is considered to be natural for those who are not familiar with healing.

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To the healer, health not only means health in the physical body, but also balance and harmony in all parts of life.

Her words ring true deep inside me and shape the reason why I don’t really believe in doctors as healers. Doctors are great for handling emergencies, but, when it comes down to it, the body heals itself! If you go to the doctor with a cut, they will help you find a way to stabilize the wound, but, they don’t ‘heal’ it, the body heals itself. Even in the cases where someone’s lifestyle has lead them down the path to some chronic disease, if the person is truly committed to giving the body what it needed to heal, the body would undoubtedly heal.

I found the following interesting regarding the universal energy field, yet I’m not sure what to do about it yet.

Rather than spending hours memorizing things, we will learn how to access the information already stored in the “memory” of the universal energy field. In esoteric terms this information storage is call the akashic records. These records are the energetic imprint fixed within the universal hologram of everything that has ever happened or has ever been known. In this type of brain function, information is not stored in our minds; it is simply accessed. In this type of brain function, to remember means to tune in again to the universal hologram and to read the information again, not to search one’s own mind to retrieve the information.

If anyone has any ideas, I’d love to hear them. If not, maybe I’ll get some time in the near future to investigate the Akashic records a little more.

The process of internal viewing

… Light enters both through the third eye and through the physical eyes and flows along the optic nerves an shown in Figure 18.6

When I came across the topic of internal viewing, I couldn’t put it down. It spawned Opening the Window to Your Soul and The Art of Seeing – can you see auras? Articles. I won’t cover that information again here.

Picture this:

… Perceiving means receiving. Perception is receiving what is already there, either in symbolic form or in literal form. Visualizing is an entirely different function. The process of visualization is actively creating. In visualization you create a picture in your mind and give it energy. If you continue to hold it clearly in your mind and give it energy, you can eventually create it in your life. You have thus given it form and substance. The clearer the image and the more emotional energy you project into it, the more you will be able to create it in your life.

I love the way she worded the difference between receiving and creating. If you haven’t paid attention to what’s going on in your own head (mind) you might be subject to living what you receive rather then creating what you receive. There is a difference, and, it’s a conscious difference.

You and only you are responsible for your health.

I have to agree one hundred percent with that statement. Yet she goes on to say:

If you have a physical problem you must make the final decision to follow a particular curative program. Only with the greatest of care should you make these decisions. To start with, you choose from a vast array of help available to you. Whom do you trust? sHow long do you follow a cure when you cannot tell whether or not it is working? These questions can only be answered from your deep searching fro what is right for you.

If you don’t trust a diagnosis, these is nothing wrong with a second or third opinion, or another technique altogether. If you are confused about what has been said to you about your particular ailment, ask the doctor more questions, find some books, learn about what you are involved with. Take charge of your health. Most of all, do not let yourself be limited by a negative prognosis. Rather take it as a message to look deeper into yourself and wider into the available alternative methods. Standard western medicine has many answers, but not all. If it is not efficient in curing a certain disease, then look elsewhere. Cover all bases. You will be surprised about how much there is to learn about yourself and your health. The search will change your life in ways you would never expect. I have met many people whose illness has eventually brought them great joy, a deep understanding and appreciation of life and the fulfillment they were not able to achieve before becoming ill.

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Self-love is the greatest healer, and self-love also requires daily practice.

Not sure how I can say that any better!

In that same chapter, she writes:

Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.

In closing, she states:

To become a healer means dedication. Not to any specific spiritual practice, religion, or set of rigid rules, but dedication to your particular path of truth and love. This means that your practice of that truth and love will probably change as you travel through your life.

Which is another statement that I agree with. We all see things from a unique point of view. Your experiences have helped you come to an understanding that no one else has. How you use that understanding is completely up to you. And when you do use it, hopefully, if you discover that it’s no longer the truth, you’re willing to part with it gracefully so the new truth can be investigated.

I am grateful that Barbara shared her point of view with me through this book. I am most interested with the act of seeing and the conscious focusing of energy. I will open my mind to the concept of seeing via the nervous system rather than simply the eyes and I’ll refine my performance so as to focus energy into an experience that the universe may take notice of.

That’s it for today.  Sing a joyous song with heart-felt emotions and see what happens. You may be surprised!

Do you remember that phrase “Look me in the eyes when I’m talking to you”? Or “When you talk to someone, look them in the eyes”? Did your parents say something similar to you when you were a kid? I remember these phrases because I only heard them when I didn’t want to participate in the conversation. Naturally, looking someone in the eyes is the ‘right’ thing to do.

It seems that there is something magical about that act and it stirs an emotional (and sometimes physical) response when eye contact is made with another person. Have you ever played the game of gazing into someone else’s eyes while intentionally trying to open your heart? The response can be immediate and overwhelming to most people.

The challenge I hold for you is to give that gift to as many people as you can. That’s right, when you have a conversation with someone, look them in the eyes and let the energy of venerability out. But don’t just do this with anyone you meet. Make a conscious effort to perform this act with people – you want to bond with!

You see, from my experiences, when you actively eye gaze, the energy that’s exchanged creates a bond between the two people. If you’re not careful, you may end up creating a bond with someone that you don’t necessarily want to be with.

Poking around the web a little, I’ve come to learn that there are now – speed dating eye gazing type parties. As a matter of fact, it’s been featured on TV. The Eye Gazing Parties website makes out the experience like this:

What are Eye Gazing Parties? The eyes are the windows to the soul, so it’s a lot easier to have a mesmerizing conversation with someone after you’ve spent two minutes looking into his or her eyes. That is the simple idea behind Eye Gazing Parties. Banal chit-chat about employment status, the location of your apartment, or where you’re from is not a great way to spark a captivating connection with an alluring new person. Eye contact is.

The problem, as I see it, is that when you line up with a bunch of strangers you end up ‘bonding’ with a bunch of people before you determine who the person is based upon their actions. You see, a person is a reflection of their actions. If you observe for a little while, you’ll get a good picture of the character of the person before you ever make eye contact. You can observe the word choices, the why they present themselves, or even the people that they choose to be around. It’s pretty easy to ‘weed out’ those which you know you will not be harmonious with before you attempt any more at bonding.

And it really is bonding. The best example that I can give is the bond that a mother makes with her baby. There’s time during those first months where eye gazing naturally occurs. In my opinion, it’s critical that both the mother and father spend time eye gazing with the child while it’s still an infant. When that eye contact is made, a lifelong bond is developed that nothing can get in the way of.

Because the eyes are the window to the soul, if eye gazing time is spent between the parent and infant, the parent to intuitively know what the child wants and needs when it ‘speaks out’.

Here is a personal report from an Eye Grazing Meditation that hints towards the energy exchange that occurs. It’s from the Integration Training website:

Relaxing the eyes can have a profound effect on how we see the world and conversely when we are stressed our vision narrows. When people’s eyes meet something special happens and I spent some time exploring this last night with a group in Hove that practice eye gazing meditation. People from a range of spiritual traditions have practiced eye gazing meditation from Rumi to tantric yogis, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. I thought that 2.5 hours looking into people’s eyes would be boring but far form it. The first time I did it I was surprised with how difficult gazing into people’s eyes was, and it took some will power to counter my social conditioning. I felt various weird waves of energy in my body and strong emotions surfacing. This apparently is common and the meditation can be used as a form of emotional catharsis and cleansing. Aside from the therapeutic aspect the main other benefit seems to be connection with your partner. At times you are not sure who is having a particular emotion and there is a sense of joining with or “dissolving” into the other…try it, it’s one of those experiential things.

If you haven’t shared this type of experience with someone, it might be time to give it a try.

The Ezine Articles website sums up the process like this:

This eye gazing can result in a profoundly moving experience of emotional, energetic and spiritual connection between the lovers, especially if you are already at a peak of sexual arousal during lovemaking when you do it. However, don’t save this practice only as an accompaniment to lovemaking.

Take 2 minutes to send and receive love in this way every day you are together for the rest of your lives.

Some couples go weeks or months at a time without making this simple, yet profound connection. Making this connection every day cumulatively can transform your relationship and sustain you on a secure platform of love through any of life’s trials and tribulations.

We have found this simple practice to be the quickest surest and easiest way to open our hearts to feel love. Most of the times we look at each other in this way, when our hearts crack open, tears come to our eyes as the intense emotional feelings cause us to cry with happiness. Make no mistake, you don’t get your heart open once and for all and keep it that way. Your heart will close repeatedly, thus it must be re-opened over and over and over again. This simple practice will open your heart almost instantly.

How to Look

Gazing into each other’s eyes is not a staring contest. You will look in a particular way.

Have you ever been in a place with an absence of light? Near where we live there are some caves. Once inside these caves, there is a complete absence of light. Without light you can’t see anything. Just closing your eyelids can give you some sense of this experience, especially if you are in a dark room during the evening.

Close your eyes now. Now open your eyes, and notice how the light comes in. You don’t have to do anything for the light to come in. This is important to notice. Next, notice how you look at things, usually including your lover. You grab things with your eyes. Grabbing things means you isolate each thing and visually separate each thing from all other things. This is how you identify what something is. You must isolate it from everything else, and then you can name it, and when you name it you know it. You have grabbed it.

Looking with your eyes in this way is useful and necessary, but it is not the only way to look. Looking in this way actually sustains the perception (really an illusion) that everything is separate from everything else. This is dualistic consciousness. Dualism simply means separating one thing from another thing.

The most import thing to take away from the above description is that the process is not just looking into someone’s eyes. It requires that you actually drop the emotional barriers that you use to protect yourself from intimately experiencing life. Because the experience is so emotional, most people intentionally withhold their energy from others so as to not build the emotional bond with just anyone.

I don’t really blame them, but wonder what it would be like if more people consciously gave into sharing energy through eye contact.

Here is a quote that I found on the Healing Through Eye Gazing website:

“When eye contact between two people is initiated and maintained, an invisible energetic circuit is established between the two participants, dissolving the barriers that ordinarily separate them from each other, drawing them ever closer into a shared awareness of union.” Will Johnson*

I love this quote of a quote. I’ve already put Will Johnson’s book on my Amazon wishlist:

That same site goes on to mention:

In the face of the safe and loving contact that eye gazing facilitates emotional pain held within the energy field and physical body will at some point surface for healing. As it does the experiencer has the choice to really feel and release the pain and in doing so clear and unblock chakras allowing more life force to flow. Since the movement of energy is often pleasurable when we surrender to it the healing process can be very enjoyable.

It’s interesting that this site references the chakras for the book that I’ve been reading, Hands of Light, goes into some pretty intense details with regards to the chakras and the associated energy. I found it particularly interesting where Barbara Ann Brennan states:

… Light enters both through the third eye and through the physical eyes and flows along the optic nerves as shown in Figure 18-6. [A diagram that shows the path light travels from the eyes to Pineal gland. It also has a path for light to travel from the ‘third eye’ location to the pineal gland.] This light is of higher vibration than visible light and can pass through skin. The light passes through the optic chiasm and goes round the pituitary, which sits right behind the optic chiasm. The light then takes two paths. One path goes to the occipitual lobes for normal vision, and the other into the thalamus for oculomotor control. It has been my observation that by certain meditative and breathing techniques, one can cause the pituitary to start vibrating and radiating gold auric light (or rose light if the person is in love).

One has to wonder that if the eyes can take in light, might they also be able to expose light? In other words, work in reverse?

It would seem that empirical evidence shows that this may be the case. At least, to those that practice eye gazing for there is an energy that seems to be exchanged between people when you look into their eyes and they willingly ‘open’ themselves to the experience.

Or, might it be that when two people look into each other’s eyes, the act harmonizes, or ‘starts vibrating’ the pineal glands in the two people so as for them to experience it’s affects?

It’s a fascinating process that I wish I had more time to write about. I think I’d rather simply spend my time actually eye gazing. I encourage you to put more effort into it and then observe how it makes you feel. If there is some intuitive information that you acquire in the process, feel free to let me know.

The world is full of a bunch of amazing little things. This is one that’s so powerful and free!