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Sunday, July 5, 2026

Awakening the Atrophied Eye: Return to the Short Path...?

I have a thought.

Recently, I've started to wonder if I came to the wrong conclusion about the true nature of "correct meditation," the ritual system described in the Pyramid Texts (from the late Clesson H. Harvey's translations provided in his book The Short Path) for how to meditate in order to open the mystic third eye of legend.

As you may recall from blog posts DAY ONE to DAY TEN, I started an experiment in 2013 to see if I could also open my third eye by following the technique, only to stop because life began lifing and I could no longer break away to find the time. To my great surprise, in the summer of 2018, I experienced two spontaneous third eye opening events, two-weeks from one another, even though it had been years since I last used the "correct meditation" technique — they just happened. This led me to the conclusion that the entire concept of meditating to open the third eye was a false one; if the third eye opened spontaneously, then that means "correct meditation" was a vain falsehood that assumed humans held more agency over the phenomenon than we had the right to believe. The only way to open the third eye is to maintain a position of right-standing with the One God and keep to the Path His prophets established for us and maybe it will open. This was my take away.

For the last eight years, I've held onto this as the common sense understanding of the topic through the lens of my experience. But after recently re-reading through the posts of my Awakening the Atrophied Eye series, I think I may have missed something worthy of changing my mind.

The idea comes from Mr. Harvey, and his expression that the Followers of Second Sight—those who have had the bona fide third eye opening experience such as myself—delight in entering into and acting in the UDJAT Wisdom Eye. What's happened is that I'm starting to interpret this differently, to the point that I think I may have stopped when I was supposed to keep going. What do I mean? Follow me.

What if:

The prerequisite was to be on the One God's revealed Path: check.
Perform the "correct meditation" ritual, but only once to let my request be known in spirit: check.
Be found blessedly worthy to have the actual experience: check.

...and now you get to perform "correct meditation" and the third eye WILL "open for you" through your will and effort...?

What if that's what was supposed to happen, but I jumped the gun and rejected the meditation ritual altogether, having misinterpreted what the spontaneous third eye opening actually meant? I could have spent the last eight years also delighting in entering into and acting within the third eye at will.

In a nutshell, this means it's now time to resurrect the experiment first performed back in 2013, and start documenting daily "correct meditation" sessions again to see what will happen if anything. I'm still flipping this old-new idea around in my head, but if you're interested, please keep checking here because I think I am going to start doing this Third Eye Journal again.

Peace.

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