01-15-2012, 12:00 AM
4. GAZING
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF GAZING?
GAZING IS A WAY TO GET US TO ENGAGE OUR SECOND ATTENTION
Gazing was the way to trap our second attention... dreamers have to be gazers before they can trap their second attention. SRP,257. The attention under the table is the key to everything sorcerers do..in order to reach that attention... they taught us dreaming and to teach us how to do dreaming, the Nagual taught us gazing. SRP,256.
THE OLD SORCERER'S COULD GET TO THEIR ENERGY BODIES BY SIMPLY GAZING AT OBJECTS THEY LIKED.
..gazing was the old sorcerers' technique. They were able to get to their energy bodies in the blink of an eye, simply by gazing at objects of their predilection (what they liked) TAOD,124
THE OLD SEERS DEVELOPED COMPLEX TECHNIQUES OF GAZING IN ORDER TO DESCEND INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE INORGANIC WORLDS. FFW,120
The old seers developed complex techniques of gazing in order to descend into the depths of the inorganic worlds. FFW,120
IN EL GORDA'S OPINION GAZING IS ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO REACH THE SECOND ATTENTION BECAUSE IT STOPS THE WORLD
Once you can stop the world you are a gazer. And since the only way of stopping the world is by trying, the Nagual made all of us gaze at dry leaves for years and years. I think its the best way to reach our second attention. (El Gorda's opinion) SRP,257.
THE DIFFICULTY IN GAZING IS TO LEARN TO QUIET DOWN THE THOUGHTS
The difficulty in gazing is to learn to quiet down the thoughts.... (leaf gazing was used because leaves are easy to get) but anything else would do the same job. SRP,257.
HE COMBINED GAZING AT DRY LEAVES AND LOOKING FOR OUR HANDS IN DREAMING. IT TOOK ME ABOUT A YEAR TO FIND MY HANDS, AND FOUR YEARS TO STOP THE WORLD.
He combined gazing at dry leaves and looking for our hands in dreaming. It took me about a year to find my hands, and four years to stop the world. SRP,258...
ONCE DREAMERS KNOW HOW TO STOP THE WORLD, THEY CAN GAZE AT OTHER THINGS; AND FINALLY WHEN THE DREAMERS LOSE THEIR FORM ALTOGETHER, THEY CAN GAZE AT ANYTHING.
Once dreamers know how to stop the world, they can gaze at other things; and finally when the dreamers lose their form altogether, they can gaze at anything. SRP,258.
THERE SHOULD ALWAYS BE SOMEONE AROUND YOU WHEN YOU GAZE
... for this reason there should always be someone around when you gaze. We never know about the quirks of our second attention. Since we have never used it, we have to become familiar with it before we could venture into gazing alone. SRP,257.
HOW LONG DO PEOPLE GAZE?
SOMETIMES FOR HOURS, SOMETIMES FOR DAYS
they used to sit... and stare in the distance with half-closed eyes for hours, sometimes for days. SRP,178. the Nagual used to make us sit by the door and gaze at those little round hills on the other side of the valley..sometimes we used to sit there for days until the crack would open. SRP,217.
HOW DO YOU GAZE?
POSITION OF THE BODY WHILE GAZING
the position of the body was of great importance while one was gazing. one had to sit on the ground on a soft mat of leaves, or on a cushion made out of natural fibers. (she came back with a small, thick, round cushion made out of the same natural fibre used in making nets.) The back had to be propped up against a tree, or a stump or a flat rock.(the Nagual had made me plant those thick poles so they could use them to prop themselves.) The body had to be thoroughly relaxed. SRP,263
HOW TO USE THE EYES WHILE GAZING
the eyes were never fixed on the object, in order to avoid tiring them. the gaze consisted in scanning very slowly the object gazed at, going counterclockwise but without moving the head. SRP,263
GAZE WITH YOUR EYES HALF-CLOSED AND BLINK THEM ALOT AND MOVE THEM FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHER
If you gaze with your eyes open, you get dizzy and the eyes get tired, but if you half-close them and blink alot and move them from mountain to mountain, or from cloud to cloud, you can look for hours, or days if necessary. SRP,217.
USING FLUFFY, COTTON BAGS TO GAZE IN THE DARK TO ACQUIRE A HUE
She made them undress and crawl inside thick fluffy cotton bags, some poncholike garments.. (she directed me to feel its fluffiness with my naked skin, especially with the skin of my calves.) covered them from neck to toes. She ordered them to sit back to back on a mat... and that their task was to gaze in the darkness until it began to acquire a hue. After many sessions, they indeed began to see colors in the darkness... EG,255.
DESCRIPTION OF GAZING AT TWO HILLS IN THE DISTANCE
she told me to keep my eyelids half closed and stare at the place where two enormous round hills converged.. that particular gazing consisted of four seperate actions. The first one was to use the brim of my hat as a visor to shade off the excessive glare from the sun and allow only a minimal amount of light to come to my eyes; then to half-close my eyelids; the third step was to sustain the opening of my eyelids in order to maintain a uniform flow of light; and the fourth step was to distinguish the water canyon in the background through the mesh of light fibers on my eyelashes. SRP,264.
She made me sit on the hard-packed ground with my back against a thick pole about one and a half feet high that looked like a tree stump which had been planted in the ground almost against the wall of the house. There was a row of five such poles planted about two feet apart. SRP,248. The sun was high on the horizon and I had to tilt my head back. I tipped my hat until I had blocked off most of the glare with the brim... as soon as I half closed my eyes, a bit of light appeared as if it were coming from the tip of my hat literally exploded on my eyelashes, which were acting as a fliter that created a web of light. I kept my eyelids closed and played with the web of light for a moment... SRP,264. ( seeing a dark spot in a canyon ex. of distance gazing).. SRP,265,265....also DJ activity of using a cloth in front of canyon for perceptual changes.) SRP,265.
DESCRIPTION OF GAZING
..in one instant I was drawn into a vortex-like sensation, extremely like the vortexes in my dreams...my dreaming attention was multisensorial..what had begun as gazing at the foilage of the mesquite tree had turned into a dream. TAOD,71,72 ..On the subjective level, however, I believed I was dreaming because I employed dreaming techniques to perceive energy. TAOD,79 Description of gazing at the lava mountains. JTI,201
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF GAZING?
GAZING IS A WAY TO GET US TO ENGAGE OUR SECOND ATTENTION
Gazing was the way to trap our second attention... dreamers have to be gazers before they can trap their second attention. SRP,257. The attention under the table is the key to everything sorcerers do..in order to reach that attention... they taught us dreaming and to teach us how to do dreaming, the Nagual taught us gazing. SRP,256.
THE OLD SORCERER'S COULD GET TO THEIR ENERGY BODIES BY SIMPLY GAZING AT OBJECTS THEY LIKED.
..gazing was the old sorcerers' technique. They were able to get to their energy bodies in the blink of an eye, simply by gazing at objects of their predilection (what they liked) TAOD,124
THE OLD SEERS DEVELOPED COMPLEX TECHNIQUES OF GAZING IN ORDER TO DESCEND INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE INORGANIC WORLDS. FFW,120
The old seers developed complex techniques of gazing in order to descend into the depths of the inorganic worlds. FFW,120
IN EL GORDA'S OPINION GAZING IS ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO REACH THE SECOND ATTENTION BECAUSE IT STOPS THE WORLD
Once you can stop the world you are a gazer. And since the only way of stopping the world is by trying, the Nagual made all of us gaze at dry leaves for years and years. I think its the best way to reach our second attention. (El Gorda's opinion) SRP,257.
THE DIFFICULTY IN GAZING IS TO LEARN TO QUIET DOWN THE THOUGHTS
The difficulty in gazing is to learn to quiet down the thoughts.... (leaf gazing was used because leaves are easy to get) but anything else would do the same job. SRP,257.
HE COMBINED GAZING AT DRY LEAVES AND LOOKING FOR OUR HANDS IN DREAMING. IT TOOK ME ABOUT A YEAR TO FIND MY HANDS, AND FOUR YEARS TO STOP THE WORLD.
He combined gazing at dry leaves and looking for our hands in dreaming. It took me about a year to find my hands, and four years to stop the world. SRP,258...
ONCE DREAMERS KNOW HOW TO STOP THE WORLD, THEY CAN GAZE AT OTHER THINGS; AND FINALLY WHEN THE DREAMERS LOSE THEIR FORM ALTOGETHER, THEY CAN GAZE AT ANYTHING.
Once dreamers know how to stop the world, they can gaze at other things; and finally when the dreamers lose their form altogether, they can gaze at anything. SRP,258.
THERE SHOULD ALWAYS BE SOMEONE AROUND YOU WHEN YOU GAZE
... for this reason there should always be someone around when you gaze. We never know about the quirks of our second attention. Since we have never used it, we have to become familiar with it before we could venture into gazing alone. SRP,257.
HOW LONG DO PEOPLE GAZE?
SOMETIMES FOR HOURS, SOMETIMES FOR DAYS
they used to sit... and stare in the distance with half-closed eyes for hours, sometimes for days. SRP,178. the Nagual used to make us sit by the door and gaze at those little round hills on the other side of the valley..sometimes we used to sit there for days until the crack would open. SRP,217.
HOW DO YOU GAZE?
POSITION OF THE BODY WHILE GAZING
the position of the body was of great importance while one was gazing. one had to sit on the ground on a soft mat of leaves, or on a cushion made out of natural fibers. (she came back with a small, thick, round cushion made out of the same natural fibre used in making nets.) The back had to be propped up against a tree, or a stump or a flat rock.(the Nagual had made me plant those thick poles so they could use them to prop themselves.) The body had to be thoroughly relaxed. SRP,263
HOW TO USE THE EYES WHILE GAZING
the eyes were never fixed on the object, in order to avoid tiring them. the gaze consisted in scanning very slowly the object gazed at, going counterclockwise but without moving the head. SRP,263
GAZE WITH YOUR EYES HALF-CLOSED AND BLINK THEM ALOT AND MOVE THEM FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHER
If you gaze with your eyes open, you get dizzy and the eyes get tired, but if you half-close them and blink alot and move them from mountain to mountain, or from cloud to cloud, you can look for hours, or days if necessary. SRP,217.
USING FLUFFY, COTTON BAGS TO GAZE IN THE DARK TO ACQUIRE A HUE
She made them undress and crawl inside thick fluffy cotton bags, some poncholike garments.. (she directed me to feel its fluffiness with my naked skin, especially with the skin of my calves.) covered them from neck to toes. She ordered them to sit back to back on a mat... and that their task was to gaze in the darkness until it began to acquire a hue. After many sessions, they indeed began to see colors in the darkness... EG,255.
DESCRIPTION OF GAZING AT TWO HILLS IN THE DISTANCE
she told me to keep my eyelids half closed and stare at the place where two enormous round hills converged.. that particular gazing consisted of four seperate actions. The first one was to use the brim of my hat as a visor to shade off the excessive glare from the sun and allow only a minimal amount of light to come to my eyes; then to half-close my eyelids; the third step was to sustain the opening of my eyelids in order to maintain a uniform flow of light; and the fourth step was to distinguish the water canyon in the background through the mesh of light fibers on my eyelashes. SRP,264.
She made me sit on the hard-packed ground with my back against a thick pole about one and a half feet high that looked like a tree stump which had been planted in the ground almost against the wall of the house. There was a row of five such poles planted about two feet apart. SRP,248. The sun was high on the horizon and I had to tilt my head back. I tipped my hat until I had blocked off most of the glare with the brim... as soon as I half closed my eyes, a bit of light appeared as if it were coming from the tip of my hat literally exploded on my eyelashes, which were acting as a fliter that created a web of light. I kept my eyelids closed and played with the web of light for a moment... SRP,264. ( seeing a dark spot in a canyon ex. of distance gazing).. SRP,265,265....also DJ activity of using a cloth in front of canyon for perceptual changes.) SRP,265.
DESCRIPTION OF GAZING
..in one instant I was drawn into a vortex-like sensation, extremely like the vortexes in my dreams...my dreaming attention was multisensorial..what had begun as gazing at the foilage of the mesquite tree had turned into a dream. TAOD,71,72 ..On the subjective level, however, I believed I was dreaming because I employed dreaming techniques to perceive energy. TAOD,79 Description of gazing at the lava mountains. JTI,201