“SIMPLE, BUT

NOT EASY”
THE THREE TECHNIQUES
YOU MUST MASTER

IF YOU
WANT
TO SEE
ENERGY
BRIAN OSBORNE
 “SIMPLE, BUT
NOT EASY”
THE THREE TECHNIQUES
YOU MUST MASTER

IF YOU WANT
TO SEE ENERGY

BRIAN OSBORNE
Edited and Organized by
Niels Dragsbaek
Contents

Introduction
Page 1

Body Relaxation
Page 11

Four Fold Breathing

Page 19

Gazing
Page 25

Joyful Effort
Page 33
 Introduction

YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD is potentially very lim-

ited. Everything in this Universe is energy, yet we customarily per-
ceive a very narrow band of that energy. Conventional perception is
a weak, low-resolution facsimile of an environment filled with ener-
getic information of a breadth and depth that if shown to you now,
would literally stupify you.
This booklet presents three exercises that will enable you to
see these energetic underpinnings of your physical environment,
an experience commonly known as “aura seeing.” Together we will
embark on this adventure into unknown territory, where you will
discover new ways of experiencing the world, and will be able to
apply your new skills in a host of enlightening and exciting ways.
During the process, you will literally shift into a new personage, and
change in ways that you did not know were possible. But be warned:
the only way you will achieve success with these exercises is if you
actually complete them; only diligent study and practice will prove
fruitful. If you simply read through these pages without making and

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executing a plan for their completion then you will not experience and the experience will be mind blowing.
any changes in your perception.
Complementing this hard work, you will maintain an attitude Make Haste Slowly
of joyful effort, to sustain your motivation and harness your innate The exercises below will lead to profound shifts in how you see
curiosity; it is vital that you play at these exercises in a way that acti- the world and understand your place in it. You will find yourself
vates the reward circuity of your physiology: enjoy yourself and find moving closer to an experience of unity or oneness, while retaining
a way to look forward to this work. a hold on your individual aspects, on yourself as a person in this
I recommend that you read this text multiple times and refer world. This process by necessity is a slow one. Your current percep-
back to it often, to impress its ideas into your memory as much as tion of the world is a protection mechanism against taking on more
possible. You should learn the exercises so thoroughly that you will than you can handle. A beginning weightlifter attempting to deadlift
give no thought to their sequence or details while actually perform- 1000 pounds or a first time surfer attempting to ride a tsunami are
ing them. In that vein, certain parts of this text may appear repeti- analogous to a novice being dropped into full energetic perception;
tive. Repetition is necessary to strengthen your understanding of the your mind knows this and has put limits in place. Constantly and
material. With these words I am to modify your subjective under- steadily practicing these exercises will yield results in a way that is
standing of your very perception of the world, and repetition in all both safe and extremely profound.
its forms will constantly reinforce that goal. At times, your conscious mind will attempt to hold you back
from seeing energy, from that experience of unity, believing you are
Reading vs. Experiencing in need of protection. Through these practices you are going to prove
These teachings are thousands of years old and extend across it wrong. You will systematically push yourself towards more and
many traditions. I present these practices based on my own personal more of that realization. You will prepare yourself for the larger ex-
experience and results. And I ask that you undertake these practices perience by achieving the smaller goals outlined below.
with diligence and then judge the results for yourself. The change
in your own personal experience that will follow from consistent Bridges
practice, with clear intention, is the only litmus test of this work. This work is primarily about transitions. This could mean the
And even though it is work, it is also exciting, novel, and a source of transition between states of consciousness, as it does here, or tran-
wonderment. sitions in your everyday life. You seek to build bridges over the gap
Intellectually understanding this material is not the same as be- between where you are now and where you aim to be, namely seeing
lieving it. Belief will follow only from experience. And in this case energy. You will be conditioning your conscious mind to interact
the experience is beautiful, stunning, and even awe-inspiring. These with and encompass greater parts of your subconscious experience.
practices will reveal your connection to a vast infinite ocean. Your In fact, you are already seeing energy with your subconscious mind,
small “s” self as you now know it will feel unconnected, untethered, we just need to make it conscious by bringing your awareness to it.

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 We are going to gradually stretch and flex your experience from undertaking a foray into the unknown and then stepping back into
normal consciousness and perception to an integrated perception of the known to reorient ourselves and experience the solidity and
the energetic underpinnings of your environment. grounding that comes with the familiar.
The shock, or panic, that I am hinting at is the impact of “zero
The Danger, The Dragons doubt.” The moment that you know energy seeing is possible, or
Aura seeing is simply gathering information; it is not knowledge. perhaps when you experience the full possibilities of lucid dreaming,
It will be up to you to use this ability in a way that is useful, that will you can never go back to your previous ignorance. Your perception
be beneficial to yourself and others. It is a powerful ability, and with and knowledge of the world will be altered permanently, and in a
that power comes responsibility and also the possibility of danger. way that cannot be conveyed in words or ideas. It is an experience
Your entire worldview will start to change with these exercises, and that will fundamentally change who you are and how you perceive
you may feel uncomfortable or experience fear in that transition. At the world. Your old self has died, as you are reborn.
times you will be shocked back into habitual consciousness, as you However, as fundamentally life altering as these experiences are,
experience the oddness of this state change. You may get butterflies they are, with much hard work, well within our grasp. Everyone
in your stomach and a sense of panic may overcome you. These has had the experience of seeing something with the corner of their
experiences are the Dragons of lore, guarding the reward, the Gold, eye and assuring themselves that it was “nothing.” We have social
that is in this case seeing energy. pressures and fears built into our habitual way of being that make us
Our careful and deliberate progress through these exercises will fearful of admitting these experiences, even to ourselves; the fear of
protect us from this danger, but there are no guarantees here. This is being shunned socially is akin to our fear of death, as shunning or
tremendously difficult work and it is not for everyone. Psycholog- being exiled often equaled death for our forebears.
ical damage is a possibility if you experience more of the unknown Also while we may have had these glimmers here and there of
than you can handle for your own level of progress. Of the relatively the energetic, from a young age we were instead trained by the adults
few people who seriously undertake this work, only a small percent- around us to perceive a very narrow band of this material world.
age will succeed. It is no different from other pursuits of excel- For the first five years of our life we are in a perceptual state much
lence, including sports. Every college athlete was a superstar at their more open to the seeing of Auras. Up to age two we are living a delta
high school, part of the top 2% of their ilk. From that pool of highly brainwave state and then as the next two to three years pass we move
skilled athletes in college, again only 2% will go onto the professional more in and out of theta. During this time our imaginative world is
arena, where again only the top 2% will be remembered as the truly much more prevalent than the materialistic world, but as we age we
great ones. You must ask yourself if you have the commitment and lose it over time. And this type of experience begins to live only in
wherewithal to perform as the top 2% of the top 2%. our dream time and during our various sleep phases. We are then
With each session, we will proceed into the unknown and then habituated to seeing the world as only physical, and seeing the ener-
step back to regain our frame of reference. We continually do this, getic becomes a prize we must recapture.

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The Gold when you walk into a room, having a comfortable or uncomfortable
What then do you get for navigating the dangers above, for slay- feeling as the case may be. With aura seeing you will have a visual
ing the dragons of resistance that make it an arduous journey to see- perception of the situation, rather than just an intuitive feeling.
ing auras? You will, for one, be able to walk into a room full of With regards to health, we will get an immediate energetic feed-
people and objects and see the energies reach out to you, and you back on the exercises we do, the foods we eat, or any supplements
will be able to see how they are affecting you and how you are affect- we take. We can more quickly and more effectively determine what
ing them. You will as a result learn how to modify that energy, and things are going to be good and what might not be so good. Perfect
morph it, for a duration of your choosing. health is perfect balance, and involves enhancing certain areas and
Seeing energy will enhance all aspects of your life including re- taking away from other areas. Since the necessities of this balance
lationships, health, wealth, and spirituality. For spirituality the ben- change throughout our life, as we grow and change, energy seeing
efits are clear: when we see energy in a plant or person or object it will assist us in navigating that flux and also being more open to it,
shows us that there is something else there other than the mundane. since we are able to respond to it in a more calculated way. People in
There is something holding it together, the underpinnings within it general aren’t often open to change, so being more comfortable with
and around it. You will see that it is connected to everything. It is change is helpful in its own right. The idea here is to be constantly,
an aspect of the larger energy that is in and around you, of which and artfully, moving and changing. There is no plateau to reach and
you are also an interconnected part. The same energy that holds the stop. We are constantly making adjustments and seeing energy helps
planets in relationship to each other, and our galaxy in relationship you to adjust in those situations, since we have more background
to others is the same energy that holds every cell in your body in the information.
configuration that represents you at this moment. If you are a massage therapist, life coach, herbalist, or any kind of
Energy seeing in your relationships bodes for better communi- healer you will find great benefit as well. Things are always shifting,
cation and better understanding. You will not only understand peo- and your experience of seeing energy is filtered through your own
ple better, but also understand environments better, and how they energy field. When getting people to open up about their dreams
affect people. You will be able to do this on an everyday basis, forg- and desires, when they are really feeling it and talking about it you
ing better relationships, small and big, with all whom you encounter. will literally see in their energy field what it would be like for them
You will find that the more you understand the energetic actuality of to have that. You will then be able to see how to get them from point
that person or thing, the better you can tune yourself to interact with A (their habitual energetic state) to point B (this new state), from
he or it in a positive way. You will become skilled at the art of place- where they are to where they want to be. You will be able to ma-
ment better known as Feng Shui, being able to see what energetic neuver them towards it through specific exercises and techniques,
effects the rearrangement of objects has on a space; you will know getting their habitual energetic pattern to coincide with their ideal,
what might be added or taken away to bring balance to an environ- since we become that which we think about most of the time. The
ment. You most likely already have a natural, intuitive sense of this more we can keep them in that zone the more they promote them-

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selves in that direction, the more they are going to take that on, with
you directing them specifically towards their goal.

The Practices
The practices you will be doing are body relaxation, the fourfold
breath, and gazing. First, read through all three and practice them
separately in the order they are presented. Then begin to integrate
them together, first by combining relaxation with the gazing, and
then finally by doing all three simultaneously.
Success in body relaxation will involve a systematic dissipation
of sensory recognition (not input but recognition). You will lose
sense of where you are in space as your tactile sensations and hearing
phase in and out. This will be a profound experience in itself.
The fourfold breath will result in the distinct sensation of an al-
tered state, what I would call an “equilibrated” state. As you progress
with this technique you will snap in and out of this state gaining
an appreciation of how holding one’s breath in equal measure has
powerful effects. Your senses will likewise dissolve, or at least dull, in
the order from least to most strong: taste, smell, touch, hearing and
vision. Additionally you will experience time dilation, your session
may seem much longer or shorter than you would anticipate.
The results of gazing will be described in more detail below;
however, generally we are going to find that our visual field will be-
gin to become more two dimensional and mottled, and will begin
swirling as it transitions from our physical sight to a vision of the
energetic. The energetic will shine through more and more and take
priority as our awareness of physicality shifts away and moves to the
background.

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 Body Relaxation

YOU ALREADY HAVE EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE with body

relaxation when sleeping. Therefore, you regularly relax to a certain
extent, but until now it was not consciously done. With this practice,
we will make relaxation a conscious process and will be exploring a
much deeper and more penetrating relaxation than what is experi-
enced even during sleep.
Body relaxation will yield many valuable benefits in its own right.
The energy, or chi, in your body will have more area to float through.
There will be fewer impedances, fewer psychic knots, and as a result
you will experience less anxiety, less angst, and less fear. That bears
repeating: achieving body relaxation to a deep level will reduce your
fear and anxiety to a significant degree. This is often overlooked in
many mystical and magical traditions, including many contempo-
rary yoga practices, where relaxation is not given the primacy it de-
serves.
We will be linking our physical relaxation to a conscious thought
process. While reading this right now, you may have the thought that

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you want to move to the bathroom. As a result of that thought, you subconscious mind is aware of my heartbeat,” is analogous to “I want
may stand up and head to the bathroom. The multiple actions you to perceive energy in the way that my subconscious mind is already
take as part of moving to the bathroom, tensing certain muscles to perfectly doing that and aware of it.”
lift yourself out of the chair, moving your gaze and attention to your We are literally building a shared language between our conscious
chosen path, are all undertaken unconsciously; they are a previously and subconscious mind. This shared language is built on communi-
learned pattern. But the thought itself, to move to the bathroom, is cation but also trust. Our subconscious mind needs to understand
conscious. In the same way, we will be linking our conscious thought the meaning of our commands, like the above, and the conscious
of “relax” to the actual relaxation of our body, in part and in total, mind needs to trust that we can handle the request. Because the con-
without consciously thinking of the relaxation mechanism itself. scious mind is “you” as well, it is looking out for you just as much as
Contrast this with the idea of recoiling your hand instinctively from you are consciously looking out for yourself.
a hot stove, without thought. In maintaining a conscious thought This idea of a transition from the conscious mind to the subcon-
command, we will practice control over the process, which makes it scious mind is key. The saying, “mastery is in the transitions” is very
a more reproducible effect, and adds an element of safety and com- important to this work and carries a deep meaning. Everything in
fort. Imagine being able to consciously relax your body and reduce our life, especially every trip-up, is always in the transition. When
your stress and anxiety on command! you physically trip on something, its not because you are standing
Safety and comfort are important since you have certain protec- still; you are moving. You are transitioning from one place to anoth-
tive mechanisms, keeping your conscious mind from accessing the er, from one room to another. And when something happens, how
subconscious processes of relaxation and tension. If I were to flip a flexible are you to catch yourself, to prevent yourself from falling flat
switch giving you full access to your subconscious, you would be ter- on your face? The transition from poverty to wealth is the same; how
rified; you would be locked in a dream where everything is instantly well does that transition typically go for lottery winners? It’s your
manifested and expressed. Since this exercise involves conscious ex- ability to be agile, flexible, and adaptable in these transitions that
perience of the subconscious, we want to proceed in an incremental keeps you safe. It is the same with the transitions in this work. We
and controlled manner. We are flexing and stretching your capability are trying to make everything smooth, and be a master of transition
to experience these new realities, which would otherwise be literal- between the conscious and subconscious mind.
ly mind blowing. Our careful foray into these territories is truly an
adventure. Nature of the Subconscious Mind
To understand this conscious-subconscious transition, consider Think of the conscious mind as a tiny circle inside of a much
your heartbeat. Your heartbeat is controlled by subconscious pro- larger circle. Our attempt to access the subconscious is like a bridge
cesses. While you may be able to consciously sense the feeling of going over the boundary between that small area of conscious aware-
your heart beating, you are not consciously producing its rhythm. To ness and the vast space of subconscious awareness that surrounds it,
say, “I would like to be aware of my heartbeat to the degree that my that you are not totally aware of. Initially we do this through our lan-

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guage, namely our commands to “relax” and “tense” various parts of Conscious relaxation will be a method by which we shift this
the body. Over time, the boundary between the conscious and sub- assemblage point, to go into these different perceptual states. You
conscious mind becomes a little softer. The subconscious becomes are shifting your focus by edging into the subconscious a bit. And
more available to the conscious mind, and vice versa. You become the results will be rather profound. High strung people who practice
aware of more and more of your total self. relaxation will find that they are suddenly managing their anxiety.
As we become more aware of these parts of our self, it is a bit This is even powerful enough to eliminate the need for medications
like exploring a completely new world. We may have seen glimps- in some cases (proper disclaimers apply such as never discontinue
es of this world, or previously explored its edges but it is otherwise your medication without the help of your healthcare practitioner)
completely new. Our dreams at times have sent symbolic emissaries People often use medication to relax, to lull themselves into a fog in
carrying messages for us, and we may not have completely under- the face of life’s adversities. Relaxation will give you the same benefits
stood them without the proper language. but without the negative side effects. You will be clear, calm, and in
And as with anything that is vast and new and powerful we control.
must be careful. We wouldn’t be safe wandering out into the African
Savannah at night having only seen it in postcards, or in a documen- Theory of Body Relaxation
tary; “the map is not the territory.” And that is why we proceed in- To be more immersed in the energetic, we want to be less bound
crementally. Otherwise we risk having an overwhelming experience, to the physical. Therefore, we bring about the dissolution of the
one that is potentially very harmful. There is a reason shortcuts don’t physical senses, almost to a state that can be thought of as a sort of
work. The conscious mind will sabotage efforts in this direction be- death. The senses will be consciously offline as in sleep; however, we
cause of the potential harm to your psyche. know they continue to run 24/7. We don’t completely put our body
To put it into shamanic terms, wherever that point of awareness offline, as in actual death, but we get closer to that state while our
is within your sphere of awareness (aura), is how your perception mental faculties are still very much awake and aware. This is critical:
is organised. You may have heard that point of awareness called the AWAKE and AWARE!
assemblage point. Someone who is considered crazy may have had This method will be bringing us to a state of relaxation going
this point shifted and fixed in a new location, hence they are per- far beyond simply stopping to take a few breaths and “relax” in the
manently perceiving the world in an altered way. Some people can traditional sense. In fact one of the major causes of arthritis is the
consciously flex and shift the assemblage point, which is what we are static tension that most people are carrying around continuously.
looking to do. Additionally, certain experiences can move it sponta- The techniques below will be going much deeper in relieving that
neously producing a temporary effect, such as the birth of a child or tension, as we relax our body joint by joint, muscle by muscle, and
a near death experience, where your perception and frame of refer- through ligaments and tendons.
ence for the world is suddenly different. Your whole value range of
your life experiences has shifted now, because you have a new apex.

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Body Relaxation Technique usual auditory popping.
The essential technique involves going through the whole body The more often you perform relaxation the more you will com-
in increments and giving these smaller parts of the body the com- pound your understanding of the bridge between the conscious and
mand to relax. Again remember that this is creating a language be- subconscious mind.
tween our subconscious and conscious mind around relaxation. Your
conscious mind is giving the command, and your subconscious is re-
sponding. Normally your conscious mind does not have control over
your muscle tone in this way; the subconscious mind is controlling
the relative relaxation or tension of all of the muscles. In this prac-
tice, however, we are shifting the authority from the subconscious to
the conscious mind; the conscious mind is literally grabbing control
from the subconscious mind.
Start wherever you prefer, but a great starting place is the big toe
on your non-dominant side, the side opposite your dominant hand.
This side of the body is more receptive of energy than the dominant
side, which is usually sending energy. Begin by tensing that area and
telling yourself “this is tense.” Then give that area the command to
relax and allow it to relax completely. Use this tension technique as
a reference for your subconscious the first 2 or 3 times you do the
exercise. After that, use the relaxation commands only. Work your
way around the whole body in this way and you will achieve a cer-
tain level of relaxation. Then go around again and you will find the
relaxation going deeper and deeper.
Focusing on the joints can be very beneficial as they are held
together by tendons, ligaments, and muscular tension. As you relax
each joint you will be relaxing multiple groups of muscles that are
using tension to safely cradle that joint. I’ve even found that after a
certain level of relaxation I experience a “popping” sound from the
joint, somewhat analogous to the popping you sense in your joints
when moving out of a chair. This indicates I have sunk very deeply
into relaxation in that joint, though it is much more subtle than the

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 Four Fold Breathing

WHEN YOU ARE CONCEIVED YOU receive energy from your

father and mother, and carry that energy through until you are born.
Once you are in this world, you get energy though eating, drinking,
and breathing (and later you can glean energy through sex). Of those
three major methods of getting energy, which can you live the least
amount of time without? The breath.
Breathing is the most important source of energy because we are
continuously dependent on it for support. People subtly harm the
effectiveness of their breath throughout the day through tension and
poor posture, putting pressure on the lungs and other organs. That
is why Qi Gong, Tai Chi, and Yoga are so brilliant and effective; they
put their primary emphasis on breathing, and reconstruct the ener-
getic pathways in and around your body. Different types of breathing
can create different energetic states, different physical states in the
body.
Most of the time we don’t even realize we are breathing; at most
it is something we are semi-conscious of. But we may nonetheless

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see glimpses of the relationship between our mental state and our If you were to take a 16-hour waking day, maintained proper
breath. For instance, when we get scared we may hyperventilate, or upright posture for breathing, regardless of what you were doing,
conversely we may choose to hyperventilate and experience the ag- breathed in and out consciously through your nose, without hy-
itated state that comes with it, demonstrating the feedback loop be- perventilating, in a slow deep conscious way and maintained this
tween breath and our state of mind. without interruption, there is no simpler, faster way to change your
Your mental state, your breathing patterns, and all the aspects of perception of the world. I would challenge you to try this for a day
your physiology are linked. Your heart rate, your muscular tension, to show you the power of the breath, but I have met very few people
your digestive process, literally the entire state of your nervous sys- who are capable of maintaining conscious breath in this way. Our
tem is tied to the flow of energy in your meridians and your chakras, focus instead is on the four-fold breath.
and is heavily tied to your respiration. And they can all speed up or
slow down in direct relation to one another. Even the synaptic flow Breathing Equally
in your brain is determined by your breathing pattern, and in that In the four-fold breath, you are making your inspiration and ex-
context no energy work whatsoever would be possible without the piration equal and you are also making the pauses at the top and
breath directing that flow. bottom of those breaths equal. With each part in equal duration, it
In this way the breath can be represented by the figure eight is often called box breathing, referring to a square with four equal
turned on its side, the infinity symbol. One thing mirrors and re- sides; no part takes precedence over any other part. When nothing
flects the other, the breath can be reflected in your physiology and takes precedence over anything else, everything is the same. And
your energetic pattern, and vice versa, back and forth in an infinite when everything is the same we call it the One, the place of infinite
loop. When you break it apart, you’re not here anymore, you have potential. We are therefore not concerned with the rate of breathing,
flatlined and you are dead. how quickly or slowly we are breathing, but only the rhythm of the
The four-fold breath is the particular breathing technique we will breath, the relative duration of each part.
be utilizing. You may have heard it called by other names, including When you breathe in this undifferentiated way, your world will
box breathing, which was popularized by the Navy Seals, but this reflect that there is nothing more important than anything else. You
breathing technique is thousands of years old. The four-fold breath begin to experience the world as a level playing field, which is one
involves a specific and regular sequences of holds: four equal dura- step closer to the experience of unity, the state of mind required for
tions of inhaling, holding, exhaling, holding. During the day we are seeing energy. We will then extend this leveled state to our percep-
breathing continuously but not necessarily very regularly. With more tion of our physical environment.
awareness, we would find that we are breathing at varying cadenc- Neurologically, the four-fold breath will bring us to an alpha
es throughout the day, holding and pausing, breathing in, breathing brainwave state and possibly to the edge of alpha going into theta.
out, all at different durations. And those variations play a major part This is where our thought processes become more flexible. Theta
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more symbolic; you have higher levels of thought and connectivity
than you do even in alpha. With alpha you will have increased un- Four-fold breath practice
derstanding and the ability to study. You are perceiving the world The technicalities of the four-fold breath are very simple but it
through a much larger aperture, seeing connections between things is important they are followed to ensure success. Many people per-
from an aerial view. form this technique counting in their heads, but keeping accurate
With this change in state we are once again softening the barrier time in this way can be very difficult, which is why I recommend the
between the conscious and the subconscious. In this theta state, we use of a metronome. A mechanical metronome is traditionally used
are accessing the subconscious mind and its particular language. It is but these days it is easier to use an app based metronome on your
not a language of direct communication with word-based commu- smartphone.
nication, but rather more a more symbolic language, as it is in our Set the metronome to click around 60 bpm to complete the
dreams. And with this lower frequency, and the perceptual state that practice. Most people are comfortable with four second intervals
comes along with it, we are once again less attached to the physical which I describe below; however, you may use a timing which is
environment. And as before, when we reduce the physical, we make most comfortable for you. The important thing is not how slowly or
room for perception of the energetic. Our intention is to stay awake quickly you are breathing but only that the four components are of
and aware during this transition so we move towards our goal of equal length.
seeing energy. To the sound of the metronome breath in for a count of four
When you place less emphasis on the physical environment, you seconds, hold four seconds, breath out over four seconds, hold for
stop naming things and they simply “are.” As such, they will have less four seconds, and repeat. Start with 5 minutes at a time and build up
standing in your world and in your consciousness; they don’t have to 10 minutes. You can perform this as long as you like but I find that
the importance of being named. In this perceptive state, we can ask diminishing returns occur after 20 minutes or so.
our subconscious to show us a different way of viewing The One,
which enables us to see energy, or auras.
The concept of “stopping the world” from the teachings of don
Juan Matus via Carlos Casteneda further elucidates this idea. In this
state, we don’t recognize things for just their physical appearance,
i.e. a chair looks so different we wouldn’t know to call it chair. It is in
that moment of not naming, where there is no reference point, that
the auric is perceived, and we perceive the energy of the chair in its
essence. We have relaxed the physical away, including our sensory
array, so we can entrain to that energetic pattern.

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 Gazing

RELAXATION AND THE FOUR-FOLD BREATH reduce our

connection with our physical body and the physicality of our envi-
ronment, while at the same time keeping us hyper-aware and awake.
I would like to mention here that this “hyper aware and awake” state
although described as “hyper,” is a very balanced state in that you
are acutely aware but are very grounded and stable, producing an
objective and observational attitude. We begin to perceive the ex-
ternal environment differently, mainly because our external world
is a projection of our subconscious mind. In this way, the brain is
a transmitter-receiver that we are reconditioning to be much more
sensitive, like going from AM radio to SiriusXM satellite.
You are living in your subconscious mind right now, experienc-
ing it as a physical reality. All of your perceptions are being pro-
duced by your subconscious. You are already in the place you need to
be, we are just going to change the parameters of the filters through
which you see it.
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beyond the duality of our mundane lives; the “undifferentiated” is glowing, some varying colors, different spectrums of light and also
simply the One; one thing, one energy, God, the Universe. We are some movement that you did not see before. Initially you will see the
trying to bring ourselves as close as possible to experiencing that aura superimposed over and around the physical, with the vision of
unity without losing the individual aspects of ourselves, our every- the physical potentially being entirely overridden. If you were look-
day human lives. Everything is made of the one thing, made of en- ing at the physical form of a person, you begin by seeing a slight iri-
ergy, and we are training ourselves to see that energetic aspect of the descence around him or her, to then more like you are seeing flashes
One thing. of light around them. Then you will begin to see this filmy, striat-
Seeing auras is the ability to change your perceptual state so that ed soap bubble around that person with different iridescent colors
your visual perception is cued in more to the light frequency of the around that. This bubble will be shaped like an inverted egg, wider
underlying energy. Your brain is going to present the information at the top and thinner at the bottom. You will develop depth control
in a way that you can make some semblance of sense out of. For in- so that you can choose to see certain areas in more detail. The visual
stance, when you consume Ayahuasca, you “see” sound. That’s why awareness of the physical form of that person may be completely
the Curanderos administering the ceremony use whistling and their gone. If you push further, that person’s energetic form may blend
Icaros, traditional prayers that are sung. They lay down patterns of into the surrounding landscape of energy and you will see them as
energy or light by using their sounds to make it more precise. The part of a greater whole.
Ayahuasca actually allows you to see sound as light energy; your Before we experience the perception of the energetic in these
brain presents it in a visual way that you can experience. ways, we will first experience a distortion of our current way of see-
ing. The scene that we look upon will become less of a collection of
Vision individual objects and more of an amalgamation. It moves towards a
Humans are visual creatures. If you suddenly take our sense of flat two-dimensional screen where we identify less and less with the
touch away, we are still going to get around the world relatively well. objects in that scene until it becomes one undifferentiated whole.
Take away our sense of hearing, and we will have some tough cir- We don’t see a tree, and a bush, and a bucket, we simply see one un-
cumstances but we will make due. Take away taste and smell and named field of view.
our experience will lack a certain richness but we will still maneuver Your conscious mind may react at that point and “freak out” a
around the world just fine. However, if you suddenly remove our bit. You are losing your point of reference and your protection mech-
vision, we are stuck. We have no reference point anymore of where anisms may kick in. You may get a feeling in the pit of your stomach
we are in the world. It is the primary sense we use to orient ourselves or get a startle response to jump out of it, as your mind tries to keep
within our environment, without it we will panic and feel lost, until the vessel, your body, safe. As we persist in the practice, we begin
of course we slowly acclimate ourselves to this limitation. to flex what we consider safe and normal. As we repeatedly go into
Gazing is a way to incrementally reduce the solidity of what you that state of perception, our conscious mind will begin to allow it as
are perceiving visually. As you do this, you are going to see some familiar, a normal experience that it now knows as safe.

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 This adjustment occurs through each stage as we go deeper and Gazing Practice
deeper. First we become used to the flattening of the image, and then This is a good place to remind you that “Seeing” is in the mind,
the scene becoming more undifferentiated. Eventually we maintain but then so is normal physical vision. When we get down to brass
a vision of the energetic, and once comfortable with it, we have this tacks, how the brain produces an image from a chemical response
filter in place that we can use on-demand. We have at that point suc- to specific frequencies of light reflected off another energy configu-
cessfully assimilated the experience of the subconscious with our vi- ration in your environment is still up for scientific explanation. The
sual perception. end result is that it makes it easier to maneuver and interact in our
Moreover, your breath and relaxation practices will help you to environment. All of these exercises are used to bring the mind into
overcome any plateaus you are experiencing in your gazing prac- a different perceptual state, one that will allow the reduction of old
tice. Both will serve to alleviate the protection responses that may be filters and the implementation of the new. We set out with gazing to
keeping you from pushing deeper into the visual perceptions of the change our perceptual state of vision. Body relaxation and the four-
energetic. They are tools that can be invoked whenever the conscious fold breath will eventually be used in concert and combination with
mind is experiencing fright. The typical reaction of panic involves the gazing, but at any stage, one should begin in a relaxed state, sit-
muscular tension and erratic breathing, so both body relaxation and ting up straight, and in a comfortable position.
the four-fold breath will have a direct grounding effect on you during You should select a scene to gaze upon that is as still as possi-
those moments. That “grounding” provides a point of reference for ble. If there is movement, then it should be broad movement, like
your experience that will make you feel safe. This prevents your con- that of trees on the edge of a forest. Dusk and dawn, the transitional
scious mind from searching for its own point of reference, such as times, are the best times of day to practice. These transition times
giving you the sensation of an itch. It will do very subtle things to are better than strict nighttime, which is itself better than daytime.
attempt to pull you out of the experience. A completely blank wall is to be avoided; Eastern wisdom dictates
When you begin to shift your perception from physical seeing that something uniform and of one color like a wall can actually be
to seeing the auric, you enter unknown territory. In doing so you injurious to the process.
lose your frame of reference and cause your conscious mind to feel Viewing organic things versus inorganic objects is also preferred.
fear. It is the same experience as the fear of going into a dark base- As far as energetic visibility goes, there is no difference between the
ment. As long as we are entering into the unknown we experience two but organic entities are growing faster. A tree is growing faster
fear until it is known. Until we turn on the light and see what is than a rock is dissolving, meaning it is putting off a lot more energy.
there, or in the case of aura seeing, until we become familiar enough Animals tend to sense when you gaze at them and can become agi-
with the new territory, your imagination can run off and cause safety tated. Photographs and paintings do contain the energetic patterns
mechanisms to activate. of their original scene, with oil paintings having the strongest energy
due to the artist infusing it with their energy. Photographs tend to be
the most energetically “honest” representations.

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 While gazing you should attempt to use as much of your periph- not caught up in the experience of it. We don’t want to ascribe too
eral vision as possible, as if you are trying to look down two separate much meaning to it, but rather maintain a dispassionate attitude.
tunnels at the same time, one to your left and one to your right. Your You are simply observing a phenomena. The combination of breath
conscious mind will pick individual things to focus on and name, in and relaxation almost act as an anesthetic to keep you from reacting
an attempt to maintain a point of focus, a point of reference. Do not to what you are seeing and pulling you out of it. Though we are dis-
attempt to fight this tendency but rather acknowledge it and let it go. passionate we still approach this work with a sense of adventure; our
Much like in thought observation, attempting to resist will just add enthusiasm for gazing comes in our focus on the end goal, and not in
more energy to it. becoming overly affected by intermediate phenomena.
Acknowledge that plant, let it go. Back to the periphery. Ac- Eventually this swirling turns into a homogeneous, almost pix-
knowledge that tree, let it go. Back to the periphery and back to that elated view, though not literally pixelated. Everything moves so fast
two-dimensional flat plane of view. As you maintain that view more and is so uniform that the only way to differentiate it is to see it as
and more, it will begin to become even more intermingled and en- the energetic, as the vibrational rate of what lies beneath. The sub-
twined. The scene becomes a multi-colored mix of shadow and light, conscious is essentially trying to give you some language to describe
you cannot identify one thing or the next. It just becomes a 2D plane what you are seeing, some kind of visual framework to represent it,
of view in front of you. so that you can use what you are seeing.
At this point, stay in this state and enjoy it! Be okay with the At this point the energetic will begin to ‘shine through’ your
oddness of it and engage it, meaning observe it. Hold it there without perception of the physical. The mind can no longer use the physi-
forcing it. The more you can get comfortable with this state and re- cal eyes to completely orient you in space and make sense of your
alize that nothing bad is happening, it becomes much easier to move environment. Therefore, reaching out into the unknown for more
on to the next one. Think of starting in the shallow end of the pool; information, it will allow the energetic to become meaningful and
we want to move gradually to the deep end and spend some time in accessible to you as a conscious visual perception.
the medium area between, getting comfortable. Revel in this new ex-
perience and maintain a childlike curiosity. Do not associate oddity
with fear but rather adventure and excitement, while maintaining
relaxation.
As you maintain that and keep your breathing stable, with a re-
laxed body, it will carry you even further. You are walking the edge
of a sleep state but are maintaining your awareness. At this point
the scene will start swirling and this may be very disorienting, as
your point of reference is disrupted even further. We are grounded
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 Joyful Effort
“Unless you become like children, you will never
enter the kingdom of heaven.”-Matthew 18:3

AS MENTIONED IN THE INTRODUCTION, it is important

to undertake this work with an attitude of joyful effort. While com-
pleting these exercises diligently on a daily basis is indeed hard work,
very hard work, that does not mean we have to trudge through them
in misery.
My first experiences in seeing came as a child, alone in the woods.
I would naturally just gaze, as in play, at the trees and plants around
me. I persisted, not because I was trying for a result, but because I
enjoyed the adventure of seeing what would come next. I had the
feeling that if I kept going, something would break through, but I
was still simply at play.
Nature is in a balanced state, there is pressure to survive, grow
and evolve; however, for most of us, survival isn’t as questionable as
it once was. Therefore we must ask: what aspects of yourself do you
want to grow and how do you want to evolve? What are you willing
to sacrifice to achieve this? If your answer is simply to allow things
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“how’s that workin’ for ya?” But, that’s just my sense of humor. Ob-
viously if everything was perfect you wouldn’t be reading this, you’d
be lavishly living your life in one way or another. You’re reading this
because you’ve challenged yourself to know if there is anything to
this idea of seeing energy. My advice: make haste slowly. Do these
exercises as if they are not dangerous, or special. Do it as if you are
neutral, with no urgency. At the same time cultivate an attitude of
adventure. Look for it around every corner and you will find it. This
attitude gives you energy, and can make these exercises enjoyable or
even fun.
Anything that is not familiar is dangerous until proven otherwise
by your conscious mind, your psychic sensor. The default setting for
you and your consciousness is to bring you out of the seeing state
until it becomes familiar to you, as known territory. Therefore, we
should play against that tendency and venture toward the unknown
with excitement, with the knowledge that we may retreat to safer
ground when appropriate and under our own control.
One can still be cautious and avoid foolhardiness without re-
moving joy. Let it be an adventure indeed, an excursion into the
energetic unknown. Be more concerned with these energetic as-
pects, rather than focusing on any personal austerity or asceticism.
We are trying here to bring a balance between the energetic and the
physical. We needn’t be a hermit living in a cardboard box with no
possessions to be spiritual. Enjoy your adventures in both worlds as
we seek to unite them.
Eventually as you are able to shift your attention into these other
energetic places more intentionally, you will learn to blend it with
your natural waking world. How you blend it with your normal day,
will eventually be up to you. The ideal is to be able to operate on high
level in both places. And finally there will be no difference between
the two, not just intellectually, but on an experiential level.

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