Simple method for witnessing the Primordial light

There are several methods of seeing the Light but, unlike others, this method uses the intellect.  As the intellect is a dualistic instrument, we therefore need to use the natural everyday light as a backdrop.  It is against this everyday backdrop that the Primordial Light can be dualistically contrasted.

1)      First we need to understand what we are dealing with.  The source of the everyday light is the sun.  The sun as we understand it has three characteristics relevant to our purposes.  Firstly it is a single object: the source of all light.  Secondly, it is constantly shining, and has not extinguished since its creation.  Thirdly, it is stable relative to our own movement.

2)      When the intellect first conceptualizes the primordial light it will need to sharply contrast it with the above characteristics. 

3)      The primordial light will therefore first present itself as a multitude of tiny lights, innumerable, even infinitesimal.

4)      The primordial lights will be highly ephemeral – each tiny light illuminated for the briefest possible instant
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5)      The primordial lights will be in constant, rapid motion, and shall be clearly discernible against the stable background of things in everyday light.

Next follows some rather counterintuitive facts.

6)      The primordial light is not seen best against a backdrop of darkness.  Rather it needs to be seen against a backdrop of everyday light.

7)      A very bright everyday light source is best, although staring directly at the sun is risky to beginners.  The best backdrops in order are sunlight reflected against something shiny (but not a mirror); sunlight reflected in water; snowy fields in bright weather; a clear blue sky when the sun is up and shining.

Now some techniques and what you shall see.

8)      Although the intellect is informing perception of the primordial light through the use of contrast, it is important we modify the acuteness somewhat.  Otherwise we will remain in everyday vision.

9)      The intellect directed vision is the direct gaze.  We must therefore distance the intellect by softening our gaze and our focus.  This will naturally direct the two eyeballs towards each other and in the middle distance.

10)   Slowly, often one by one, tiny bright white ‘squiggles’ shall appear.  They appear at first rather like sperm or tadpoles – a dot followed by a tail.  As your gaze intensifies you’ll realise that these ‘tails’ are actually just an effect.  Rather like waving a flaming torch on a dark night produces a circle in the air.

11)   The more you concentrate the more ‘squiggles’ shall appear.

12)   Eventually they will fill your entire visual filed with profusion and depth, and the everyday backdrop will feel to you like something secondary and unimportant.

This is the primordial light, as first conceived by the intellect.  It is an easy and accessible way of getting a sight of the transcendent realm and an introduction to some of the feelings it brings.  Indeed, there are many people who can relate to the above without realizing what it means.  If you understand the vision and take it seriously you will naturally become more and more fascinated with it.  In the next post we’ll discuss what happens as the intellect starts to depart from the scene and the need for contrast with the sun disappears.