Mental Starfield Experience
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Jun 07, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
This is from an email:
Hi Michael,
I wanted to share with you an experience I had yesterday evening when I was in bed and was in a kind of twilight zone i.e. not sleep and not awake!
I am sure you will recall my previous experiences in relation to Star-Fields which I have been seeing every time I close my mind, quite literally now! However, I came to a realization that in a "Normal" state of consciousness or when one starts to see the startfields, the Direction of the movements of the moving light particles is either from left to right or otherway round! When however, we become absolutely focused and in a higher state of consciousness, we see the Starfields moving towards us i.e. as though they are coming towards our forehead and may be the Third Eye!
The Starfields, once we are in a high state becomes almost like a "Tunnel" and the centre or the far End of this Tunnel appears to be another Space where the Starlets are brighter and the background is somehow darker.
Now, one may argue that it is indeed Us who are travelling into the starfield but I feel that we become only Witnesses in this state only! The reason I am saying that is that I normally see the Starfields travelling either left or right and I have the feeling of standing in a space witnessing all the bright little shinny stars moving gently by.
I also felt that, when we are in an excited (sexually mostly!) or have a "Busy" mind, the starlets move in a very haphazard way and I have personally discovered to use the way the starlets move, I can use to deduce what state of mind I am in. Another interesting experience was that I found that if one is in a low light environment, one is able to see the starfields with eyes open and it seems it makes no difference if eyes are closed or open, since another perhaps virtual eye(s) are used in this state!
I would be extremely grateful for your thought on my realization and what I described above,
Thank You very much,
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MiBeloved's Response:
Features seen in the psychic head such as the starfield and other lights are actually viewed because of a shift in the existential location of the observing self but these features may appear to be appearing and disappearing. What is really happening is that the observing self is appearing and disappearing in the astral or supernatural domain of the said starfield or lights.
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You mentioned "The Self", who or what part of me, we are talking about?
First we begin where we are which is with the material body as the self. Okay we understand what that is because at birth of the body, there is issued on its behalf, a birth certificate. Then again when the body goes to school, it might be given a school ID or be registered under a certain name. Then again when the body gets married, it is again marked by another registry certificate. If it wants to travel abroad, it is photographed and assigned a passport. If it is wounded it is assigned a hospital band or tag. If it dies, it is assigned a death document.
So that is very clear to us, as to what we are as a physical body.
Now there are two other obvious ways in which the person is recognized which are its emotions and analysis. For instance when the body sees another body, like for instance when the infant sees its mother, the infant may become very happy or it may cry. This produces inner emotions which flare up in the psyche of the individual. Psyche here means the psychological embodiment of the person. Just as the physical body is limited, so the psychological body or psyche is also limited.
In terms of analysis or reason we can also recognize individuals like that. For instance if you put a very difficult math problem before a child who failed the exam, he would not be able to do it. If you do the same to a child who high-graded the exam, he would do it in an instant. So this mental ability is also a type of identity just as the characteristic of the physical body like its color, the peculiar shape of its nose etc. is a way to identify a particular individual.
In kriya yoga we are concerned primarily with the head consciousness of the physical body. In the head, in the brain, there are calculations going on continuously and perceptions are interpreted there by the mind. But the research is into the various components of the mind. To begin we might just see three factors here:
1. The mind chamber itself. The mind is not unlimited. Each individual has a specific chamber which is the mind. It might be regarded as the psychic brain.
2. An observing self which notes imagination in the mind, which notes feelings which are transmitted within the mind from various sources even from creations within the mind itself.
3. Perceptions within the mind and perception of things which are outside of the mind but which the mind becomes aware of in one way or the other.
We have these three factors. The one which we are concerned about is the observing self. In the mind space there is an observing self which notes images, ideas, thoughts, feelings and the like. This is the core-self. It is not the whole mind chamber which does this observing but only something, a self, which is in the mind which does this.
By meditation you can learn to segregate that observing self from the rest of the contents in the mind. This you should do and begin the process of kriya yoga in earnest. Separate the observing self so that you know it more and you know what surrounds it on all sides. So that you know how it uses the analytical powers of the mind. So that you know that it is sometimes captivated by the computer like image making intellect in the mind.
