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Originally posted by snake

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

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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.
1) 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.
2) 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.
3) 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
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4) 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.

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