Value of Vision Shut-down

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Date:  Posted 3 years before Jun 22, 2016

MiBeloved 3 years ago

After years of meditation, trial and error, I am ready to announce that the shut-down of vision has all the value in the world, for those meditators who want to develop supernatural perception.

One is born with sensual orientation to the material world. This same advantage of sensual perception of the environment is itself a handicap for those persons who desire supernatural insight.

The direct transfer or conversion of the physical vision into supernatural perception is not possible, even though many people are convinced that it is. A complete retraction of vision interest into the material world is required before anyone can develop consistent non-sporadic supernatural vision. The steps are as follows:

Moving from using physical vision or even astral vision to getting supernatural perception right from within the head of the subtle body, won’t happen if there is not an incubation period where the meditator practiced to retract and neutralize the vision energy and the interest which was invested in it.

This energy has to be recalled and must be detached from the optic channels in both the physical and subtle bodies.

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This morning while meditating and adhering to naad sound, I saw up ahead at the third eye, a cube-shaped vision orb. It turned slowly. It was about 3 inches cubed. It was turning up and down slowly about 15 degrees upwards and then 15 downward. This cube was wedged in the opening of the third eye.

Because I was far back in the subtle head, I could not clearly see what was on the outside of the cube in the other dimension but I could see that the place was self lit. Its lights were seen through the cube. There were figures also seen but since I was at a distance, I could not get details.

Because Srila Yogeshwarananda instructed me not to go forward to see anything at the third eye, I stayed put adhering to naad in the back part of the subtle head.

Then after a short time, the cube entrance disappeared. Where there was light, there was now just pitch black mental darkness. I then realized that this particular vision occurred because of effective suppression and then elimination of the interest energy which is usually invested into the vision energy.

This was direct perception through the third eye without using the interest/vision energy track which is used for physical and even for astral vision.

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Details of the mental actions required for this meditation:

1. Withdraw the vision energy which is invested in the physical eyes:

To do this one has to mentally find the two optic nerves which proceed from the mid brain to the left and right eyes. Once these are located, one has to locate the energy which travels outwards through these two optic nerves to the receptor plates (retina) in the eyes. An effort is then made to pull this energy back into the midbrain where it converses or combines as one signal mix for giving the vision concept in the brain.

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2. Withdraw the interest energy which is invested in the withdrawn vision energy.

Once you feel that the two channels of energy are withdrawn to the mid brain, keep mentally pulling back the two channels until you are confident that they are stabilized at the midbrain point where they converge into the brain.

When this is completed, then pull backwards from the mid brain point. This is a mental pulling action to be sure. It will cause the psychic interest in the visual sense to be retracted into the core-self. This might feel like a muscular psychic action because that is what it is. It may also feel as if you have to apply a tremendous amount of will power to do this.

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3. Neutralize the withdrawn interest energy so that it appears to be non-existent.

This action cannot be performed initially in this meditation practice because the power to neutralize the interest energy has to be developed. It is developed by repeatedly making the effort to remove the extrovert power which is in the interest energy.

One person might take one month of practice, another three months and yet another three years of practice before the power to neutralize this energy is developed. This is because we have different degrees of extrovert impulsion.

When this interest energy is neutralized the student will know because there will be a lack of eagerness to use the eyes to see things in the material world. It will be like the force which compels one to open the eyes and see is disabled.

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4. Remain meditating with the absent interest energy until supernatural perception develops. (This might happen in hours, days, months or years, depending on the particular psyche of the meditator).

Once you take the steps above, then you will find yourself in the psychic center of the brain, in a stationary position there. There will be an upfront section of the mind, then mental energy to your right, to your left and behind. You will be facing forward such that to see what is in the back of the subtle head you have to turn about. Turning about might be difficult for you if not impossible.

Remain in that central stationary place with that absent interest energy like a person who stands in the middle of a dessert but who has lost all his possessions, a person alone in a faraway place without any accessories or other objects, the bare core-self without any mental or emotional facets.

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Chapter one of the Meditation Pictorial book has a practice for mastering this.

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