Since you can watch it yourself, I’m not going to describe all the video explains, but only the most important bits, followed by further explanation of the most important concepts.
In the depicted St. John’s vision you can see twenty-four elders sitting in the Throne Room. The Throne Room is the brain, and the elders represent our twelve pairs of cranial nerves.
These nerves are responsible for all our sense perceptions. These nerves either are oriented outwards or inwards. They’re oriented outwards naturally, and they get oriented inwards when we practice self-control.
Outwards-oriented cranial nerves show us the external world. Inwards-oriented cranial nerves show us the spirit world within. They’re responsible for the experiences such as hearing heavenly sounds or seeing divine visions. This entire video is based on such a vision of St. John.
The crystal lake that St. John saw represents, according to Cayce, calmed emotions. When the emotional part of the brain is no longer excited in any way, it calms down and turns inwards, reflecting, like a mirror, the world within.
Spiritual aspirants generally understand the importance of calming the senses and turning them inwards to perceive the Self. Yet they don’t do it. Usually those truths that are most obvious and simple are ignored as the ego is focused on complexity and skips that which is simple.
So to repeat, in order to explore the spiritual dimension, the world within you, you must calm your senses, because only when your senses are no longer excited can they turn inwards to perceive the spirit world.
How to calm the senses
The senses that direct our attention outwards must be tamed for them to turn inwards. This can happen as a consequence of pure and spiritual life, or the senses can be consciously and gently led inwards.
Turning the senses inwards means that:
- The sense of hearing must no longer be interested in hearing external sounds like gossip, addictive music, or be annoyed by noises such as the beeping of cars.
- The sense of sight must no longer be focused on things external, like adoring someone’s beauty, watching TV or being attracted to shiny material objects.
- The sense of taste must no longer thirst after exciting dishes or drinks.
- The sense of smell must become indifferent to either sweet perfumes or repulsive smells.
- The sense of touch must not be consciously engaged for the sake of gaining pleasure through it.
Let’s take each one of the senses to explain more in detail of how they can be calmed.
How to calm the sense of hearing
If the sense of hearing doesn’t naturally become detached from external sounds, it can be made to turn inwards through listening to spiritual chants, spiritual instrument sounds such as those of the bamboo flute or singing bowls, ocean sounds, rain, wind, or any other sound that you associate with spirituality or tranquility.
When hearing is no longer interested in external sounds, it perceives the sounds within, which could be the sound of a single instrument such as that of the flute, harp, bell, or harmonious heavenly music.
When such a calmed sense of hearing is redirected back into the world, it can hear the thoughts of others, pick up on the sounds of other dimensions or the sounds from this dimension that are beyond the conventional range of human ear.
How to calm the sense of sight
If the sense of vision doesn’t naturally become uninterested in the world, it will help to turn it inwards by dwelling on spiritual images of all sorts, especially mandalas which are created for this very purpose. It can also be helpful to look at something that has a calming effect on your mind, such as a painting of a forest, or the sky.
When seeing is no longer interested in things external, it perceives the beautiful palace of the mind; then you’re free to explore Divine internal chambers and see visions of God, and you may get to the stage where you can read akashic records, and see your past lives as though happening now. You may also perceive your very Self – a tiny particle of God hidden in the cave of your heart.
How to calm the sense of taste
The way to know if the sense of taste has turned inwards is by paying attention to your attitude towards food. Here are the signs that the sense of taste is calm and therefore can be turned inwards or is already inwards-oriented:
- You think of food only as a means to keep hunger away
- You have no preferences as to what to eat
- You don’t plan what to eat and don’t look forward to the time of eating
- You stop eating when you’re no longer hungry
To aid in calming this sense, you should avoid consuming stimulating and rich foods which overexcite the palate such as chocolate cakes, chili sauce or strong coffee.
In addition to this, try not to think about food at all, because when the mind dwells on anything it develops attachment to it. Whenever a mental picture of food presents itself, quickly replace it with something else. In order to prevent this thought from possessing you (that’s what pretty much happens), you must cut it at its root – that’s why it’s important to straight away think of something else when a picture of food pops up in your mind.
When the sense of taste becomes turned inwards, you start perceiving heavenly sweetness in your mouth that doesn’t come from anything external.
How to calm the sense of smell
If you still react to pleasant and unpleasant smells, it means your sense of smell is oriented outwards. To turn it inwards you can burn incense, aromatherapy candles or use calming essential oils, or any other smell which reminds you of things spiritual like certain flowers (such as white nag champa – my favorite flower).
In addition to this, avoid insulting your senses by avoiding synthetic perfumes or air freshners; however, if you’re faced with a situation in which insulting or tempting smells are present, instead of getting annoyed by them or attracted to them, center yourself in your being. Affirm that these smells don’t have to affect you if you don’t give your permission for this to happen. By the way, you can use this strategy for any other senses too.
When you’re no longer attracted or repulsed by the worldly smells, you start smelling very subtle flower-like smell that can only be described as Divine. It doesn’t come from any source – it doesn’t even come from you; it’s just there, and no one else can smell it! The more the sense of smell is turned inwards, the more often you can smell such a Divine aroma.
How to calm the sense of touch
Like all the other senses, the sense of touch must be turned inwards too to perceive the world of spirit. To turn it inwards, you shouldn’t consciously engage it with the external world in order to gain pleasure.
The path of subduing the senses is not for everyone, so don’t feel forced to do this if you don’t have any inner confirmation which says that you should. It goes without saying that celibacy should be practiced for the sense of touch to disengage from the world.
When you no longer experience pleasure from external sensation but understand its nature (like Buddha did), you experience indescribable bliss of your true being. When this refined sense of touch is turned back into the world, you may feel shifting emotions in people, atmospheric energies or the presence of nonphysical beings.
What happens when all the senses are calmed
When all the senses are calmed they turn inwards giving you a complete picture of what’s within. Spontaneous and effortless meditation becomes your natural state, and thus your awareness gets established in the Self. The senses turned inwards reveal your true being which is bliss, unconditional love and peace.
Though at first it may take effort to turn the senses within, once the inner world is tasted, the senses will never cheat the Self by turning outside. The awareness thus will remain centered in the Self, watching the world from this home of true stability and bliss.
Every day passed in such a state is a holy and special day; those centered in the Self wouldn’t exchange such a way of being for anything this world has to offer.
Resource: simonarich.com
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