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1 Do not force, do not concentrate, just be aware

Any authentic spiritual work has finding the Self as a primary aim, and the Clairvision
techniques are no exception. The essential purpose of the process is to be more. It is
common to hear that human beings are only using a small fraction of their potential.
Their lives are confined within a limited range of thoughts, emotions, sensations and
other modalities of conscious existence, and yet in most cases they remain completely
unaware of these limitations. Plato's myth of the cave, even though formulated 24
centuries ago, remains perfectly relevant: if you have always lived inside a dark cellar, to
you this cellar is not a cellar, it is the whole universe. You can't even conceive of the
wonder waiting for you if you were to step out and walk in the real world. The work
suggested in this book is all about stepping out of the cellar and starting to behold the
magnificence of the world as seen from the third eye.
In India, the coconut is considered to be of deep symbolic significance and is used in fire
rituals (yajs) because it has three eyes. Two of these are blind, meaning they can't be
pierced to reach the milk, while the third one, in the middle, opens to the inside of the
fruit. Similarly, the third eye is fundamentally the gate that leads to the inner worlds.
Therefore this eye allows you to know yourself to a depth that surpasses all conventional
methods of psychotherapy or any method based on analysing with the discursive mind.
Developing the third eye is a direct way of expanding your conscious universe and
discovering your essential values, so that you may fathom your own mystery. Moreover,
it is simple. Simple does not necessarily mean easy, but this work does not require
complicated theories or lengthy discussions. Its direction is essentially experiential, for
the purpose is clearly to be more. And being is the most simple thing in the world. A
constant preoccupation while writing this manual was to relate theory to experience and
to give techniques and keys to enable you to perceive for yourself.

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Chapter 1 Principles and Method of the Work

The first three chapters are devoted to getting into the main aspects of the practice. The
remaining chapters are more or less independent of each other, so that it is quite possible
to read them in the order that feels most natural to you.
Before starting the first technique let us give some basic advice regarding the principles
and method of the work.
You should not be confused by the fact that our purpose is a new clairvoyance, or vision
of the Self. Truly, the Self is already there, waiting for you in the background of yourself.
You are not going to build the Self and its vision, you are going to reveal them or rather
allow them to reveal themselves. Spiritual development is certainly a fight, but the main
weapon in this fight is letting go. In this perspective of opening it is not appropriate to
concentrate, to try hard or to force. If you were to do so, what would happen? You would

operate from your ordinary mind, meaning that fraction of yourself with which you
presently think the discursive mind that goes on talking in your head all the time. You
have been conditioned from an early age to do everything from the mind. Therefore if
you try to do the perception business, you are likely to remain caught in your talking
mind a layer which is notoriously unfit for any form of spiritual perception.
Stop doing. Be fully aware, but just aware. Allow what is hidden in the depths to come
through and be revealed to your consciousness. Don't do anything, let things happen.
Flow with what comes.
In the physical world when you want something you have to strive for it. But in the
spiritual worlds everything is reversed, as on the other side of a mirror. If you want
something you have to let it come to you. It is a new skill which has to be developed. It
could be called active letting go or creative letting go. It is the capacity to be
transparent and to let states of consciousness be revealed through you.
Just be aware, and everything will happen.