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Chapter 1 - Principles and Method of the Work


One of the reasons is: suppose an angel comes to you, truly. If you have been trying to visualise angels every morning for a few months how will you know whether it is a true angel or one that you have made up.
The problem is not to get into the perception of images or lights. If you put the techniques into practice, visions will come. The real problem is, once these visions come to you, how to discern what is real from what is a fancy of the mind. So the advice is: be spontaneous! Never plan or try to attract a vision. Just practise the techniques and then see what comes. This will make it much easier to reach the stage where you can rely on your vision.
This approach should not be understood as a criticism of the paths that use creative visualisation or imagination. There are many ways. What is true in the context of one particular system of development does not necessarily apply to others. In the Clairvision style of work the motto is "just awareness".

1.3 Trust your experience
Something good to remember is that when there is nothing to
believe, there is nothing to doubt either! Since you are not trying to make anything up, don't waste your time worrying about whether you are really seeing what you are seeing. Trust your experience.
Keep on practising according to our sober principles and your clairvoyance will flourish, growing in precision and reliability. As perceptions start repeating themselves it will become easier and easier to trust them.

1.4 Don't analyse during an experience
Do not try to analyse as soon as something happens. Otherwise you
will lose your perception immediately, because you will be caught straight back into the discursive mind. One of the keys to perception lies in the cultivation of a superior form of stillness, the capacity not to react when something takes place inside.
Once the experience is over you will have plenty of time to analyse it. Anyway, it is not necessarily by analysing or discussing an experience that you will derive the most benefit from it. Experiences of consciousness are like seeds. It is when you ponder on them silently, and digest them, that they will mature into greater realisations.



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