Third Eye Meditation

Central to the spiritual techniques of the Clairvision school are practices for awakening the third eye. The third eye, located in the space between the eyebrows, is like a switch that can take us into our subtle energy. In Eastern esoteric wisdom it is understood as being like a gateway or portal to the inner realm of consciousness.

"In both Christianity and Buddhism the body has been likened to a temple. Using that analogy, the third eye can be understood as being the temple’s portal. Crossing the portal takes one from the profane to the sacred, from the stage where one reads about spiritual life to the stage where one starts experiencing it."

Gillian has been working with meditation techniques for awakening the third eye since connecting with Samuel Sagan’s Clairvision School in the late eighties.

"I soon realized that my third eye was suffering from decades of neglect when I started connecting with it in meditation. One of the secrets of subtle vision is to ‘see’ without conceptualising. This is very difficult for our ordinary mental consciousness to do at the best of times but especially difficult for Western minds like mine that have, for so long been steeped in academic analytical thinking.

My experience of third eye awakening is reminiscent of Oliver Sack’s case study of a young man called Virgil who had his sight restored after being blind from birth. Virgil had great difficulty seeing anything. Not only had he not learned to see with his eyes but his visual cortex had atrophied. I suspect that my apparatus of mystical vision had similarly atrophied through lack of use and its reactivation required patience and diligence and particular meditation skills.

I have to say however that the persistent effort has been more rewarding than anything else I have ever done. With an awakening of the third eye, a feeling of flow enters your existence. Synchronicities abound. Your actions are guided more and more by your intuition and less and less by your thoughts. You come to understand firsthand what the Taoists mean when they speak of ‘flowing in the current of the Eternal Tao’."