the All-Seeing I

Over a year ago I had an experience during a guided visualization that created a permanent change in perspective. I won't describe it, other than to say that it was about the Two Real Things: the Void, and Experience. This morning I had an interesting thought about how we perceive, and what our view means. Experience is seen in analogy by looking straight forward and noticing the round, seemingly edgeless window of sight. (Like what Douglas Harding describes in his book "On Having No Head") The Void is understood by analogy to the invisible realm "behind our heads" which is outside the field of view, all that we cannot be conscious of.

"With, not thro' the Eye"

This morning I was turning my head a bit to be aware of the inconspicuous boundary of my vision, and I felt that something within me was trying to stretch that edge as far back and around as possible. Could the Ego be wanting to see in all directions at once, to know and control everything? Maybe. But it is also true that the Third Eye is known as "the All-Seeing Eye". It is understood in the Astral Realm as including all forms of perception and thought itself: the "6 senses" described by the Buddha. At Enlightenment (or Liberation, or whatever the most exalted state is called) there is no unconscious, and all that can be perceived and known is present.

So maybe the pull I was feeling is the natural growth of the being? What do you think? Do the experiment, and become aware of what you see, and what you do not see.

faith

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Heb 11.1. How many people really understand that? It led me forward for a long time, the knowledge that because I had faith, there was inherently, unarguably something to have faith in. It was like a blind person believing in light... yes. There is light.
Recently I came across a list of stages to Liberation on a Buddhist site. I thought it was interesting because I am trying to fit everything to my 3 stage model (ego, self, no-self) and in this stack of about 15 levels, I drew a line between faith and joy, which was above it: this is the line, the distinction between someone still in the ego perspective (can't see) and the person who has peeked beyond the wall to the world beyond ego ("more light! more light!" as Goethe said).
Once you have seen it finally, there is no room for faith anymore. It has been abrogated by the Experience of one-with. God takes it away, along with any idea of not being God. We are in it, we are the godhead, the water of the sea. I is revoked by we.