To Salaast, in terms of whether you “wait for it” or force it (and references to those “two-distinct states” -in my exper they are distinct). I find accessing a layer of mind, which is also a ‘place’- where you can create images (imagos) is a tool but doesn’t take you to the place where Visions arise. (and reverse, although developing each makes it easier to be capable to accessing the other- from having so developed the skill).
(as an ex seeing a sigil arise in one’s sight vs formulating such a sigil are what I sense as different Modes of Mind (like switching channels)- one can jump from one to the other, and back again- with associated transformations, in a way similiar to leaping “Astral levels” (the Theosophical concept of “planes” that was merged and confused with Sephirot of TreeofLife in GoldenDawn and now thought to be the same)
- as well as leaping-jumping Dr locations (& then merging-linking Here&There with a portal-translation
Anyway- just to imply some concepts in above in case any find something there- as Salaast mentions “it feels like a block” -that seems relevant and familiar to me (it keeps reoccuring with each new-integration)… I’d say rather than an “energetic-block” its more the [other parts of me] is thinking/knowing if we just sit and allow something to be seen/learned… what precedent does that set? -you Can’t just ask a question and get an answer! (actually can, but that does have impact repercussions)
-also that is a way of experiencing the lack of ones system (physical-physio and mental-emot-persona) all being “ClickedTogether” to be able to operate in this way; thus these developmental exercises (or how ever to refer to this Work) slowly build up and re-structure (in the same way that learning to do a skill requiring greatly increased coordination- new nerve links and mental-patterning of do what when- are developed, else it just isn’t possible… so rather than just “feel confident and do it” I’d say the feeling of its not in reach is the system saying it can’t feel the avail option within the current system’s structure).
Last I’d contrast “activating” 3rd eye and opening it- in terms of Opening a physical eye, vs closing it… it can be on or off (although it being a poss, even if it is closed presently won’t be the same as when it wasn’t a poss before and was closed… diff in that way)… but that’s is different from the “Chakra” opened (open as in the vortex allows a linkage-portal connection… translation between Here&There)… Once it is opened in that way, a geometric-exponential jump in structure occurs (and both of those are still distinct from when the Mainline of lifeforce, that which not only energizes the Beingness of Existence, not just energizes in terms of “feeling movement of energy”-- that which is called Kunda in Vedic tradition, but it is in other systems.)
The Kunda-buffer (as G. I. Gurdjieff termed the Maya-illusion mech, ref: Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson) has been linked to a feeling of tactile energy, as well as to what is written in some texts as chi-like sensations… in the same way that Chakras are both the underlying Assembler-code level gaps in the OS (ala Matrix, in Hack-terms, or better “Words Made Flesh” Dukes, Ramsey)- but Chakras are also seen as sensory-images to trigger the somato-tactile nerve-plexus and thus think-feel in a different way. both of use, but clearly to confuse… (See U G Krishnamurti on Kunda, on Chakras, as well as the “Ult Nature of Reality” and waking up)
thus key, once turn it on can it be turned off? -is there a choice, once one is committed? -neuro-physiologists have a Theory that humans stop developing physically (espec CNS and thus assoc mental-emot) around 8yrs old, perhaps 10 or even 12… but both it ceases to develop structurally, even though development within a stuck structure continues
(ie the pattern jumping to a more complex fractal is different than staying at the same pattern and elaborating upon that pattern… the second can become much “bigger” and even more layered, but is essential the same- as contrasted to how an infant into a toddler, into a young child…
each discontinuous leap (like when a person shifts from seeing one's backyard as the world, to seeing the World as one's backyard... and again: seeing the World a bit more 'as it is'... not a little shift:
that I’d say is more what the Yogi’s-Adepts were referring to as opening… vs seeing via the energetic sense- not the same, but in an analogical linkage helps to see (and thence the poss to expand one’s possibilities, and perhaps to stand in both places and translate between- as a portal- one can become multiple portals)
(perhaps only a couple of ideas should have been in above, vs layering a bunch all together- I could have spelled out/broken out into many different posts, as well as having been more explicit- but I don’t know if anyone would find such of interest anyway, and there may be some that can follow and be familiar with above… if so, I hope this might augment the above discussions, as it seems to me these topics are touched upon in this forum, but not really fundamentally seen- anyway- my post above just one perspective)
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and to end comment upon TheWanderingFool, the thumb sized crawlers sound familiar to me as well, I’d caution against the easy interpretation that some pop-writers refer… as the trick is seeing something with one’s Vision and seeing a part of physical Enviro and linking the two as if those “bugs” were in that place… could be, could also be a tone you were experiencing was represented in that way There… for ex, I’ve seen something like that and it was in the same layer apparently (Layer in the ComputerGraphics sense- like audio tracks), while in other times I noticed upon looking “deeper” that is was like the “bugs” were on a layer not the same as the enviro… like a shadow, or a projected image… but in this case both “Images” were real (vs one just being the image while the other is the concrete)… 2concretes, associated (~ Magickal-Link)… and seeing that layer that is InBetween the two… while separating one’s Vision from each (one’s Sight and one’s Mind will try and pull all in together… and perhaps ZoomIn to the bugs- or jump… dream logic style… but Attentional Focus)… may ReVeal aspect not easily put into World nor into Previous Experience…
((may reVeal fractured-integration of overall flow- like distortions in a shattered glass-broken mirror/reflection.. when the mirror-glass is smooth the warp/"bugs"? may not..? not exactly, but a last thought))
this became longer than I thought to make it, luck to any that read it ^ its about allowing your autonomic system to self-alter its resonance, by
A) focusing upon something not “available” but not completely outside of poss… on the edge of perceivable (liminal) ~an Entity … “AfterlifeHypnos” and
B) while remaining in that connection, staying Present and Integrated (vs one’s Attention dispersing) and release stuck parts… while you hold that, over time one’s Resonance shifts towards or away (like manually tuning a radio dial- station gets a bit louder or a bit more distorted…) but you can’t “do that” consciously-personally…
just like developing a new coordination (or biofdbk of brainwave entrainment), as if knew how one would… its the parts that are not just Stuck, but NeuroMuscular-Amnesia ie not just stuck, but can’t even feel they are stuck, nor that you could move… once re-acquire… the “station” becomes clear