Chapter 1 - Principles and Method of the Work

1.1 Do not force, do not concentrate, just be aware
Any authentic spiritual work has finding the Self as a primary
aim, and the Clairvision techniques are no exception. The essential purpose of the process is to 'be more'. It is common to hear that human beings are only using a small fraction of their potential. Their lives are confined within a limited range of thoughts, emotions, sensations and other modalities of conscious existence, and yet in most cases they remain completely unaware of these limitations. Plato's myth of the cave, even though formulated 24 centuries ago, remains perfectly relevant: if you have always lived inside a dark cellar, to you this cellar is not a cellar, it is the whole universe. You can't even conceive of the wonder waiting for you if you were to step out and walk in the real world. The work suggested in this book is all about stepping out of the cellar and starting to behold the magnificence of the world as seen from the third eye.
In India, the coconut is considered to be of deep symbolic significance and is used in fire rituals (yajñās) because it has 'three eyes'. Two of these are 'blind', meaning they can't be pierced to reach the milk, while the third one, in the middle, opens to the inside of the fruit. Similarly, the third eye is fundamentally the gate that leads to the inner worlds. Therefore this eye allows you to know yourself to a depth that surpasses all conventional methods of psychotherapy or any method based on analysing with the discursive mind.
Developing the third eye is a direct way of expanding your conscious universe and discovering your essential values, so that you may fathom your own mystery. Moreover, it is simple. Simple does not necessarily mean easy, but this work does not require complicated theories or lengthy discussions. Its direction is essentially experiential, for the purpose is clearly to be more. And being is the most simple thing in the world. A constant preoccupation while writing this manual was to relate theory to experience and to give techniques and keys to enable you to perceive for yourself.



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