INNER LIGHT MInistries Journal Volume 20 Number 4
December, 2008
The Three Aspects Of The Spiritual Eye by Jim Gordon, President of ILM
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(from Becoming A Living Prayer, February 28, 2006) your gaze can go inward and upward, back up into
or a long time now I have shared about focusing at the spiritual eye while doing the Path of Sound and Light meditation practice. I want to go over this in a little bit more detail with you.
that higher spiritual aspect of the spiritual eye center, allowing you once again to hold your attention on God rather than on those things in this creation, or your body, or whatever it might be that draws your attention away.
The spiritual eye has three components. The first part is that which looks downward into this creation – where the gaze is focused into the physical, and into the astral or creative imagination, and somewhat into the causal or emotional realm. When we are focused downward through this aspect of the spiritual eye, those are the realms we will connect to and get caught up in. Those are what will hold our attention and attract us downward. So when you’re in meditation, and you are focusing at the eye center in an inward and upward focus … if something keeps pulling you downward in your gaze, pay attention to that and – let it be okay. Don’t struggle and try to force your gaze to go upward if it doesn’t really want to. If it’s going downward then there is a reason for it; there is something in those realms, within your consciousness, that is to be worked free. So if you are sitting in meditation and your attention keeps getting pulled down into that lower portion of the spiritual eye gaze, let that be alright, and love that which you are holding your attention to. Just as you would love God, now love that which your attention goes to, whether it be in the physical or the creative imagination or the emotional. Love it, and love it as you would love God, because there is what is standing between you and God in that moment; that’s why your gaze has shifted. Your attention is going to go to whatever is standing between you and the Lord. And whatever the attraction is, don’t struggle against it and don’t try to figure it out – well, what is this? Is this a past life? Is it this life? Just look upon it and love it. Love it, and forgive it if there’s an energy of forgiveness that wants to move within you and stir. Love it, and that love will dissolve whatever it is that is standing between you and God. Then once again
As you move your gaze upward through the spiritual eye, the second component has to do more with a horizontal, forward gaze; and that goes into the psychic realms. That particular focus or awareness opens into a small portion of the astral or creative imagination, and into the emotional nature, and into the mental nature, and actually quite a bit into the etheric or the unconscious. So when we are in our meditation and, again, we are holding our attention inward and upward toward God, if all of a sudden we find our gaze going more forward or horizontal rather than vertical and toward God – again let that be okay. And whatever it is that is present with you in that focus, in that gaze, again enter into the loving; love it just as you would love the Lord. Love it, and that loving will dissolve whatever stands there. And if it still stands, even in the loving, move into the action of forgiveness; that will allow the loving to begin to move into whatever that is that is between you and God, and it will drop away because it cannot stand in the loving. Then, as we look inward and upward in that upper portion of the gaze, we really are looking more up into the realms of soul, and up into the beginnings of the realms of spirit. And there’s also a little bit of an element in that gaze that has to do with the very top portion of the etheric part of our being. So as we are holding our attention into that, we want to do all we can to stay present, to stay awake, to stay aware; because that little portion that is of the etheric nature can cause us to go unconscious as we are holding that upward gaze. The higher we can hold our attention, the more we will go above the unconscious realm. So (Spiritual Eye continues on page 3)