changing faces

snake · June 19, 2008, 10:13am

some years back I used to close my eyes till they were just open and stare at a person say (sitting against a white wall)was best and after some time their faces changed many times and theie faces took on a luminous glow.
Does it sound like an optical illusion or was i seeing past faces?
thanks

Tibetan_Ice · June 19, 2008, 1:08pm

Hi snake
This sounds like a gazing technique which a native american taught me a long time ago. You sit and gaze at the other person, relaxing, not moving your eyes. He said you will see past and future lives of the person you are gazing at. I saw pirate faces, gorillas and many more. It is a fascinating practice.
A few months ago, I came accross the same technique in Samuel Sagan’s “Third Eye Opening” pdf. Here is an excerpt from it:

Another face appears in place of your friend’s face.
This is one of the most common experiences while practising the
techniques of eye contact: The face of the friend sitting in front
of you disappears and another face can be seen instead. If you are
practising alone, facing a mirror, it is your own face that
disappears and is replaced by another. These faces correspond
mainly to four possibilities: 1) a spirit guide 2) a past life 3) a subpersonality
4) an entity.

Spirit guides: it is quite common for your spirit guides to
manifest in this way to the person with whom you are practising.
As you progress, you will gain the capacity to consciously manifest
your guides upon your own energy in a way that will be visible to
others, even if their clairvoyance is minimal. Eye contact is
actually one of the most simple and direct ways to get to see spirit
guides.
A variation of this experience often happens while listening to a
talk given by a spiritual teacher. If you become very motionless,
stop blinking, and practise our method of vision while gazing at
them, you will sometimes see their face disappear and be replaced
by that of their teacher or some higher being behind them.

Another possibility when the face changes is that you are seeing
an image of yourself or of the friend you are practising with, in a
past life.

The face can also be a sub-personality of yours or of your
friend. Altogether, this is not so different from what was
described in 2), if one considers that sub-personalities have been
built up by the circumstances of past lives.
Chapter 5 – Seeing
75

The face can also be that of an entity, meaning a presence
attached to you. An entity can be regarded as a non-physical
parasite. Just as some physical parasites can stick to different
parts of your body, likewise some non-physical energies or
presences can get attached to your energy.

If you want to read more, try this link:
http://www.clairvision.org/ckb/ckbe/ckbc/fol_0000_0700/cat_0000_2222/qid_2007_0000_0003.html
The pdf is a free download and it contains lots of fascinating information about the third eye…

TI

snake · June 19, 2008, 2:59pm

thanks TB.
At the time i was experiencing this I was doing the divine light meditation
practices aka Guru Mahraji,http://www.ex-premie.org/pages/aspir5.htm
http://www.prem-rawat-bio.org/initiation.html
http://www.prem-rawat-bio.org/process.html

emc · June 21, 2008, 2:10pm

This was one of the first things that started to happen to me after awakening. I just look at the ajna and soon faces appear. It often also tells me what karmic knot I have with that person. For example, I may just know we had a father-son relationship once and that betrayal was the issue… Often bringing tears and an opportunity to understand issues we are dealing with in this life.
Pretty scary though, when my partner turned out to be a Spanish Inquisitor having tortured me…

Sparkle · June 21, 2008, 2:25pm

You can also do this on yourself.
Just look in a mirror at youself in a dimly light room, with your third eye - can be pretty scary

snake · June 22, 2008, 5:38am

yes Sparkle Ive done that also,interesting faces