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Bonus for the Advanced: Paranormal Powers
Ramakrishna
The third eye is also the center of paranormal powers. Once you give a lot of energy and attention to this area, you will meet paranormal powers whether you intend to do so or not. The most common phenomena to appear first are telepathy and clairvoyance, which are the direct perception of certain subtle energies and subtle realities, normally unseen by the eye, becoming visible for the third eye.
It is absolutely necessary to mention here that these paranormal powers are not at all the goal of Tantra Yoga, and they can be a very big hinderance on the path. They might create pride, arrogance, and close the practitioner’s heart. A great master of Tantra Yoga, Ramakrishna, mentions, “The pride of ordinary man will go eventually, but the pride of a saint about his own sainthood, that one is really hard to remove.”
Great masters such as Ramakrishna himself and others would only use paranormal powers spontaneously, when only necessary, with humility and in a very discreet way.
How the Universe is Seen from the Third Eye
Alex Grey
Whereas for a person with an open
heart chakra, the world looks like a symphony of love, a person who is awake at the level of the third eye of Ajna Chakra sees the world as if with x-ray vision. The hidden causal levels are revealed. The capacity of vision soars like an eagle, uniting the fractions of the foggy reality into a whole, magnificent and clear unity. From this place, the whole world is perceived as complex harmony, as a gigantic hologram in which everything is related to everything in such a perfect and beautiful way, which awakens, again and again, wonder and adoration to the sacred act of creation.
Some of the paintings of Alex Grey illustrate this reality. The book of “Yetzira,” which is attributed to Abraham, describes the steps of the formation of the world, representing such a perspective. We can also find such a view in the Upanishads, in the Tao de Ching, in the Tantra Loca, and in the
Avadhuta Gita. These texts describe a hidden reality which is the root of the visible reality.
The journey from the manifested to the unseen is the journey for opening the third eye. This journey is always exciting and intense because the more the unseen becomes visible, the more the mystery grows.
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