SOFT SIGHT, a Tool

Normally in our day to day harried living, we use what Tai Chi practitioners call hard sight. We focus in specific directions and on specific objects in that line of sight, centering and sharply honing in to focus on that object of choice. We soften that sight a little when we drive. We have to, or we would all drive like beginning Driver Ed students. Well, in this lesson, you will take softening your sight to another level.

Do you know how your brain, your eyes, and your body feel when you catch yourself daydreaming? Do you know the feeling of your state of being - your body and mind - when first awakening in a groggy state or when you are between sleep and wakefulness? If so, half the battle is won. Knowing that state will make it easier. If you don't, try to pay attention to the feeling of it the next time you catch yourself daydreaming or in between sleep and wakefulness. Mark the state of your body and mind, eyesight included, so you can identify it and use those feelings to mimic a state similar to it - a state which allows you to enter conscious deep sensing.

To enter soft sight, you need to "defocus" your eyes from honing on a specific object. You can look in an object's direction, and that object can be at the center of your vision field, but you don't focus on it. Instead, you just look in its direction.

Try this first. Hold up one index finger. Hold it about one foot in front of your eyes. Focus on that finger. You should see one finger...sharply. Now, relax your eyesight's focus until you are seeing through that finger. If you pay attention, you should be able to see two distinct fingers sharply, but also so everything else is seen just as sharply. Whatever you "pay attention to" without moving your eyes or changing your focus at all is clear and in focus, with nothing out of focus. Pay attention to where your eyesight and your mind are "physically" in order to do this. Pay attention to the feeling of and the quality of the state. Identify the mechanism that allows you to see two fingers in focus, as well as everything through and around those fingers in focus.

This is the beginning level of soft sight. In time, with practice, you will be able to maintain this state and move your eyes...once you have mastered entering this state at will without effort in an instant and learned to maintain it regardless of actions or situation.. Once you are comfortable entering soft sight at will, take the state deeper, by utilizing all the tools you have thus far been given (and hopefully have begun to master) in this book .

When you can drop to soft sight with a thought, you are ready to begin exploring aura and the rest of what the world calls the supramundane that exists for most as that to be scoffed at as imaginary, but that is actually a non-experienced fact by virtue of self- and culturally imposed blindness and desensitizing in this, our real world.