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I believed, back when the world was still boring and
mundane, that the scientific community had demonstrated with their rigorous
skepticism that there was no such thing as magic.
And then one day while returning to Texas
by train from a trip visiting some college friends in North Carolina, I went into a bookstore to
pick up something to read for the hours-long ride home.
by
Graham Hancock caught my interest, and the back cover description intrigued
me.
By the time I arrived in the San Antonio train
station, my entire world had changed.
No
longer boring or mundane, Hancock’s book opened a voyage of discovery into a
wide array of other books and subjects that I never even knew existed, ones
that I was aghast to find that not only did the secular humanist “scientific”
community know about, but did everything they could to both condemn and
suppress these amazing findings.
It
turns out that they were every bit as stubborn, narrow-minded and dogmatic as
the extreme religious right attitude that they claimed to want to free society
from, and they couldn’t be trusted.
Excited, I was more than happy to “empty my cup” of all I
thought I knew about the world (to borrow a phrase from Bruce Lee’s
philosophy), and enthusiastically dived into these new fields of discovery
authored by people I had never heard of, but were considerable thorns in the
sides of the mainstream and their monopolies and cartels in their
self-appointed roles of guarding the gates of the acceptable.
I read a few of Graham Hancock’s books and
quickly became a fan.
In those long ago
days of the late 1990s I didn’t have any kind of web presence; my email address
on Hotmail was empty and lonely, but I managed to find
Hancock’s Website.
There this one section titled “
Articles,”
where he encourages folk of like minds to post original works, which are often
previews of books they are promoting or publishing.
At the time there were only a few posted, but
I kept coming back until one day I found an article by a gentleman named
Clesson H. Harvey whose essay entitled “
The Great Pyramid Texts” in combination
with Hancock’s
The Sign & the Seal at least doubled the sense of
‘awe’ that this new journey had awakened.
It is here that I first heard of the Third Eye.
Well, I came across the concept before in fiction.
One of the Dragonball Z characters… Tien… had
a big anime eye on his forehead.
He was
supposed to be ‘enlightened’ but he functioned not dissimilar to that weird
fire bender assassin who shot bolts of heat force from his mind in the Avatar:
The Last Air Bender series.
I remember
wondering why Tien wasn’t the most powerful guy on the show if he was supposed
to be ‘enlightened.’ It seemed to me that he should’ve been.
Why not?
I was intrigued by the implications of the idea of it, and looked around
for more badass and less ham-fisted and limited examples of it somewhere, but
didn’t find any.
Inspired, I played
around with what the concept of it conjured within my own sketchbook jams, but
Clesson H. Harvey’s work really brought the concept alive for me because it was
real.
As a fan of Graham Hancock and his peer group/friends and
how they approached supernatural phenomena, not just with a truly scientific,
investigative open mind, but also with a lack of that mystic, over-deep,
pseudo-philosopher speak.
I’m from Detroit, the birthplace of the
Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the Wilderness of North America (yes,
that’s the true full name of Elijah Muhammad’s original Nation of Islam group)
and the apparent Mecca
for every single “deep” armchair pseudo-philosopher.
You know who I’m talking about.
The over-eloquent caricature that Damon
Wayans made fun of in the show
In Living Color, who felt that the more big
words he used in his nonsense, the more enlightened he was somehow making
you.
It’s not just the self-educated,
former prison inmate from Detroit that acts like that, there’s a LOT of folk
competing with each other in “deepness” from many ethnic groups, nationalities,
and schools of thought who are like that, surrounded by eager acolytes
determined to puzzle out all that “deepness” so they too can become deep.
I have zero tolerance for that nonsense, but
that’s all I found during my efforts to find more information on exactly what
the Third Eye was, until I found Clesson H. Harvey.
It’s his background that made him so fun.
Harvey was a
physics and chemistry teacher at the University
of California in Berkeley.
On the side, as a hobby, he traveled extensively and studied the
meditation techniques of the Far East.
Oh, and he could read and translate ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphs.
He was obviously very
interested in the ‘mystic’ stuff, but he had a mind for hard science, so when
he explained the mystic stuff, it was without all the “deep” talk, and he just
laid it out ABC/123 without all the fluff.
That was awesome to me, but that’s not the best part.
The BEST part is that he actually opened his Third Eye.
He actually achieved that state.
Because of this he was able to recognize, within the vast
amounts of literature of Far Eastern meditative techniques and instructions on
becoming ‘enlightened’ that he was expert on, who was truly full of crap and
who was on the up-and-up.
Or more
accurately, he saw which writers had actually done it, and which were just
talking about a concept that they only thought they knew about because they
read someone else’s accounts of it.
And
on top of THAT he recognized what the true message of the great pyramid texts
on the Saqqara plateau was trying to tell us,
which was no less than the secret of correct mediation designed specifically to
open the Third Eye.
Once he saw this,
translating
The Book of Coming into Light,
as the ancient Egyptians called the powerful words chiseled into those hundreds
of granite stele we know as the pyramid texts, became Clesson H. Harvey’s
life’s work.
His book
The Short Path
contained a series of lectures in which he described his findings, as well as
giving some fascinating incidents from within his own life concerning the
topic.
His Website
www.pyramidtexts.com was the compliment
to this book, featuring a FAQ, many examples of his translations, and an
instruction on how the reader could follow the pyramid text’s guide towards
meditating correctly and efficiently so that anyone could attempt to open their
Third Eye, too.
Harvey’s
findings revealed that:
1.) The Third Eye is not an 'eye' at all… despite
all the photoshopped Google images the unenlightened have flooded the Internets
with… but a portal/doorway separating your finite mortal self and your immortal
spirit body.
2.) Can only be opened if your spirit self finds
you worthy.
3.) If it opens for you it will first show you
different scenes either from the present, the distant past, or the far future.
4.) At its highest stage, it will pull your
consciousness into it and merge you with your spirit body that will then take
you on a tour of... wow. lol It's up to the individual as to what
it (your True Self) feels you need to see. At that point you will have
officially attained the concept of "Enlightenment" in its strongest
meaning.
5.) The energy needed to access the Third Eye is
translated as
"The Serpent Fire of the Universe" and called 'sekhem'
by the ancient Egyptians, 'chi' by the Tibetans/Chinese, and 'kundalini' by the
Hindi. It is the energy source for all psychic phenomena. The
'serpent' aspect of the title has nothing to do with an actual snake, but
refers instead to the rippling sensation one experiences as the energy builds
up on each side of the spine. The sole point of building up this energy
is to access the Third Eye; the psionic powers developed as the energy builds
are nothing more than a side-effect of this effort.
6.) The way to open the Third Eye was perfected by
the ancient Egyptians in their 30,000 year old
Science of the Spirit,
and is recorded in detail upon the granite stele of Saqqara.
The technique involves a precise form of meditation composed of staring into a
spot approximately six inches in front of your brow, while breathing
simultaneously through both your nose and mouth in such a way that your exhale
sounds similar to saying the word "sah." You only need to do
this for an hour, that being sufficient time for your sekhem levels to rise
enough. Interestingly, as the spiritual energy builds up, simultaneously your
natural levels of the chemical called DMT (dimethyltryptamine) also builds up, demonstrating the physical triggers that mirror the spiritual ones in our dual nature.
7.) As you meditate, almost immediately, you'll
start to see visions appear around the edge of the area you are staring
into. The ancient Egyptians say that you are NOT supposed to attempt to
see them clearer, and warned that such an effort will tell your spirit self
that you aren't interested in opening the Third Eye and it, quite simply, will
never
open for you. Instead they instruct a simple technique of quickly
glancing down and to the left and then immediately back up to your staring spot
(you are allowed to blink btw), and the visions will eventually stop trying to
get your attention.
Amazed, I gobbled this info up and applied it to my
sketchbook jams to eventually make its way into my masterwork
Monsters 101, the
ten-title graphic novel series, and will also feature as the core/foundational
concept behind the expanded
Monsters 101 universe within other titles in the
queue.
But the comic book fan in me also
wanted to try it… it sounded way too much like real life superpower stuff!
So I hyped myself up and followed the
directions of Harvey’s
pyramid text translations…
…and promptly scared myself to death.
This was back in 2002.
I was still single and had a lot of time on my hands, similar to my
current life as a contactor on a government/corporate defense contract on the
other side of the planet.
Because of Harvey’s own Third Eye experiences,
he was able to describe in detail the various stages one goes through on the
way to the event horizon of the Eye opening up.
I diligently followed the directions but was genuinely spooked when I
quickly achieved the first stage.
And I
stopped.
NEVER had I been so
nervous.
I decided to leave it alone
until I was “ready.”
Whatever that
meant.
A few years later, after I was
married, and thinking about that day while lying in bed, I started performing
the techniques again while lying there, and ACHIEVED THE FIRST STAGE
AGAIN!
After that I vowed I would stop
playing around and sit still somewhere and mediate regularly until I at least
reached the event horizon, or actually opened the Third Eye myself. But I didn’t do it.
Years went by, and I got a serious rush of motivation when I read Graham
Hancock’s
Supernatural, and was so impressed by his courage in following
through and ingesting some ‘hallucinogenic’ mushrooms and telling us all about
the experience in the book.
With that
impressive feat on my mind, and once again finding myself living the functional
equivalent of my old nerd bachelor lifestyle, I’ve decided to finally start to
awaken my own atrophied Wisdom Eye and become one of the Shemesu Heru, the
Followers of Second Sight.
According to Harvey’s work an hour of
meditation is all that is necessary.
Over-excited, I haven’t been able to meditate that long, and will need to
build up to it like it’s a workout.
Which I guess it is really, working out my spiritual muscles... the atrophied Third Eye muscles of correct meditation.
I’ll meditate as long as I can, with the
goal of doing it for an hour a day.
I
might not do this every single day the way I imagine during my most ambitious
moments of super-hype, but every time I do it I will describe what I did, what
I saw, and what I felt in a blog entry.
I will also describe the steps and the process, too, in case any of you
would like to do it, too.
I strongly
suggest you do, even if you don’t believe in the concept of the spirit or the
Wisdom Eye.
The stage one experience I
encountered twice now (which I will describe in detail if I manage to make it
happen again), is of course very personal and internal, like the visual entopic
images.
They’re real and they actually
happened to me, but I have no way of sharing the experience with anybody; you
have to experience it yourself.
This
experiment is a fun way to motivate me to stick to the thing, but I am also
very much interested in actually doing the real-world version of the feats my
characters are able to perform, which will be super cool.
But if you do it with me, follow along with
the steps, you’ll be able to see what I see and we can encourage each other
along the route to enlightenment.
Stand by for the events of Day One.
I’m getting myself hyped for it now…
See Also:
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: A Personal Quest to Find the Followers of Second Sight
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: DAY ONE
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: DAY TWO
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: DAY THREE
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: DAY FOUR
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: DAY FIVE
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: DAY SIX
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: DAY SEVEN
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: DAY EIGHT
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: DAY NINE
Awakening The Atrophied Eye: DAY TEN
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: INITIATION
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: The Wisdom Eye Returns
Awakening the Atrophied Eye: The Night of Power 
