The Mind's Eye

Viswamitra · Jan 10, 2019

satchitananda said: ↑

Which puts 'seeing is believing' in a different light altogether.
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You will be in for more surprises when you read the book. What would be your reaction if this author says everyone of us are actually holograms and it is the mind that converts all of us into a solid object? By merely touching the aura of a person, it is possible to cure a patient. Many physicians in the US have accepted to this phenomena but refuses to go public as they would lose their license.

jskls · Jan 10, 2019

Reiki does wonders Satchi if you believe in it. I am a good receptor but I still am not practicing healing. I have seen colors in meditation mostly purple. But I remember once Viswa sir mentioning that when we are traveling on highway these Siddhis are like distractions on roadside and not to pay much attention to it. Since then I have been trying less to focus on these colors or any other experiences. Just take it as I go.

Viswamitra · Jan 10, 2019

Dear Lakshmi,

Purple is the color of healing and you have confirmed you are a great recipient of Reiki energy. If you are a good recipient, you will be an excellent giver of Reiki energy as well. You are a great candidate for becoming a Master in Reiki or Reiki II training already.

What could be a greater service than reducing the pain of the fellow-beings? You have now motivated me enough to go through that training in order to be closer to the transitioning patients.

satchitananda · Jan 10, 2019

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Oh my Satchi! All that in one evening? Glad you could experience at a certain level what you were trying to explain Synchronicity it is! Now, I need to close my eyes and see what happens. Like I mention always, I am not much of a meditator and I actually prefer traataka if I ever try. I do have a friend who see the shapes of the objects she had seen last before that disappears also.

Enjoy your experiences and keep writing more!
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Hey Sabitha, just realized I have forgotten to respond to your feedback. Sorry about that. What exactly is traataka?

satchitananda · Jan 10, 2019

jskls said: ↑

Reiki does wonders Satchi if you believe in it. I am a good receptor but I still am not practicing healing. I have seen colors in meditation mostly purple. But I remember once Viswa sir mentioning that when we are traveling on highway these Siddhis are like distractions on roadside and not to pay much attention to it. Since then I have been trying less to focus on these colors or any other experiences. Just take it as I go.
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Yes, Lakshmi. I did 2 levels of Reiki and practised for quite a while. Tried for my dad also when he was suffering from cancer. Such a sweetheart, he'd always say he felt better. After he passed away, I stopped completely. It's been years now and I have forgotten all the symbols now.

Thyagarajan · Jan 11, 2019

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I shut my eyes. Time to go to lala land and play with the cherubs for the next few hours. I observe the darkness with my eyelids closed. If the light was turned on now, it would disturb me even if my eyelids were closed. I can tell dark and light with my eyes shut, rather all of us can.

I notice some colours floating inside my eyes. The familiar electric blue - a beautiful colour appears first. As I watch it, it turns to purple, then red, then green, then pink. This psychedelic light show inside my eyelids turns my mind to thoughts of what I read the other day when trying to find out why I see those lights. They are something called 'phosphenes' says Uncle Google. Why do we see colors with our eyes closed? | Scienceline

I see colours with my eyes closed. I see dreams also when my eyes are shut. But hold on, does not our brain interpret images projected onto our retina as images? So where do the images in our dreams come from? I get up and switch on my lappie to call Uncle Google who tells me that they are information which are stored in our brain which run around and play games at night while the 'satchitananda' thinks Satchi is sleeping. (Pray, who is this Satchi?) I am beginning to wonder whether I can really trust Uncle Google. Maybe he is kidding me? Or wait, maybe someone has been kidding themselves and him in the bargain. Anyway, I wonder if it is so simple after all. Talking of dreams, I notice something about blind people also being able to see images in their dreams.

A question pops up inside that troublemaker who does not let me sleep. Can blind people (from birth) see images of loved ones in their mind's eye? If blind people can see images in dreams, can they, in the event of their vision being restored, recognize near and dear ones e.g. parents without having to hear their voice? I find no satisfactory information anywhere. I, however run into an article about someone who regained his eyesight after 43 years. Here is what he said:

over the next weeks and months he found managing all of this new information was very overwhelming. Having had no visual input for 43 years he now received a torrent of information which was fatiguing. "It was definitely information overload.

Strange as it might seem, it tied in so well with what I was discussing with a friend this evening. I was talking about meditating, feeling light and blissed out and then having to open one's eyes, back to the 'real' world and how painful I find that. Talk of synchronicity. Thoughts, events, information all come full circle.

On that note, maybe I shall try and get a shut eye and watch some more of those colours doing their psychedelic dance and hope the goblins inside my brain decide to go to sleep.
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what a brilliant analysis of colours you see with closed eyes!
2. I thought the title refer's to Lord Shiva's third eye.
3. William wordsworth wrote the anthology Paradise Regained when he lost the vision and wrote paradise lost when he had normal vision.
4. Fortunately or unfortunately, the moment I close the eyes,
I thank the Lord for the nice day he blessed me with and the moment my head strikes the pillow sleep embraces me.
5. I heard or read in dreams, one may not see the colour. It is all only in black and white.
6, I don't do meditation nor Rikhi or any such practise or exercise. I find My Day to day activities including sudoku are enough to maintain shape and size of my body, soul and mind.
7. Hypnotism vs meditation:
In one, person keeps eyes wide open yet goes into sleep and answers question colourfully.
In the other person closes eyes yet remain awake to think and look inwards probably for colours.!
Life is riot of colours primary and secondarily.
God is great who BLESS US colourfully.
Regards.

zainabiden · Jan 11, 2019

thanks 4 sharing nice question and answers.. very informative

satchitananda · Jan 12, 2019

Thyagarajan said: ↑

what a brilliant analysis of colours you see with closed eyes!
2. I thought the title refer's to Lord Shiva's third eye.
3. William wordsworth wrote the anthology Paradise Regained when he lost the vision and wrote paradise lost when he had normal vision.
4. Fortunately or unfortunately, the moment I close the eyes,
I thank the Lord for the nice day he blessed me with and the moment my head strikes the pillow sleep embraces me.
5. I heard or read in dreams, one may not see the colour. It is all only in black and white.
6, I don't do meditation nor Rikhi or any such practise or exercise. I find My Day to day activities including sudoku are enough to maintain shape and size of my body, soul and mind.
7. Hypnotism vs meditation:
In one, person keeps eyes wide open yet goes into sleep and answers question colourfully.
In the other person closes eyes yet remain awake to think and look inwards probably for colours.!
Life is riot of colours primary and secondarily.
God is great who BLESS US colourfully.
Regards.
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Thanks a lot for the intersting feedback. You are indeed blessed to be instantly off to lala land, as soon as your head touches the pillow. I wish Nidradevi would be just as obliging with me!!! Dreaming in B&W or colour! Intersting question. I have often wondered and wanted to observe, but it never happens. I suspect it is in full technicolour. This is just my guess, because I am too fast asleep when I dream, to note whether it was in colour or otherwise, but honestly, I have never noticed anything odd about my surroundings in my dreams - like they being B&W. I must work harder on this project indeed!

In one, person keeps eyes wide open yet goes into sleep and answers question colourfully.
In the other person closes eyes yet remain awake to think and look inwards probably for colours.!

Amazing, isn't it?

satchitananda · Jan 12, 2019

zainabiden said: ↑

thanks 4 sharing nice question and answers.. very informative
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Welcome to IL and to Snippets of Life, Zainabiden! Thanks a lot for your FB.

periamma · Jan 13, 2019

@satchitananda you give a tough question to people like me . when i close my eyes i see Human faces moving across in black and white like cartoons drawn by R.K. Laxman. i have a habit of drawing some designs if i see a piece of paper.Human body in shape of triangle,square or circle.Is this a cause for those faces flashing across?