Looking in the mirror

[darklight]

We would now move to a discussion of the details of ways to get in touch with more information about the self in previous incarnations. There are two basic ways which you may find efficacious in getting in touch with the information concerning past incarnations. The first way is organic and slow. Usually it involves simply expressing to the self each day the intention of coming—we correct this instrument—of becoming more aware of the experiences that have occurred to the self in other parts of the soul stream before and after this incarnation. It may be helpful to express this intention by looking at the self in the mirror. You may look into the eyes or you may simply look out of focus at the face. Either technique is efficacious for some entities. You may indeed find the image of your face in the mirror beginning to change into different faces as you gaze into that mirror for some time—we would suggest five of your minutes as the appropriate cutoff point; certainly between thirty seconds and five minutes at a time is enough intensity for you to experience at any one time. We would not suggest doing this more often than once a day. Such work as this may seem slight; however, it is substantive and powerful. When you harness your will and focus it, you are a person of magic and power and that which you desire will come to you.

http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._0418.aspx

This is indeed the case when I look in the mirror and focus. I see many faces, and honestly, very creepy, non human, demonic faces. It really scared me.

[Nicholas]

We would now move to a discussion of the details of ways to get in touch with more information about the self in previous incarnations. There are two basic ways which you may find efficacious in getting in touch with the information concerning past incarnations. The first way is organic and slow. Usually it involves simply expressing to the self each day the intention of coming—we correct this instrument—of becoming more aware of the experiences that have occurred to the self in other parts of the soul stream before and after this incarnation. It may be helpful to express this intention by looking at the self in the mirror. You may look into the eyes or you may simply look out of focus at the face. Either technique is efficacious for some entities. You may indeed find the image of your face in the mirror beginning to change into different faces as you gaze into that mirror for some time—we would suggest five of your minutes as the appropriate cutoff point; certainly between thirty seconds and five minutes at a time is enough intensity for you to experience at any one time. We would not suggest doing this more often than once a day. Such work as this may seem slight; however, it is substantive and powerful. When you harness your will and focus it, you are a person of magic and power and that which you desire will come to you.

http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._0418.aspx

This is indeed the case when I look in the mirror and focus. I see many faces, and honestly, very creepy, non human, demonic faces. It really scared me.

I can relate to that experience darklight. It freaked me out when I saw a goulish figure in my minds eye for the first time. My guess is that it is the natural process of pressing deeper into the planetary mind and onwards towards the archetypal mind. No entities light or dark are exempt from the deeper portions and a faithful heart sees us through these otherwise disturbing experiences.

[darklight]

We would now move to a discussion of the details of ways to get in touch with more information about the self in previous incarnations. There are two basic ways which you may find efficacious in getting in touch with the information concerning past incarnations. The first way is organic and slow. Usually it involves simply expressing to the self each day the intention of coming—we correct this instrument—of becoming more aware of the experiences that have occurred to the self in other parts of the soul stream before and after this incarnation. It may be helpful to express this intention by looking at the self in the mirror. You may look into the eyes or you may simply look out of focus at the face. Either technique is efficacious for some entities. You may indeed find the image of your face in the mirror beginning to change into different faces as you gaze into that mirror for some time—we would suggest five of your minutes as the appropriate cutoff point; certainly between thirty seconds and five minutes at a time is enough intensity for you to experience at any one time. We would not suggest doing this more often than once a day. Such work as this may seem slight; however, it is substantive and powerful. When you harness your will and focus it, you are a person of magic and power and that which you desire will come to you.

http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._0418.aspx

This is indeed the case when I look in the mirror and focus. I see many faces, and honestly, very creepy, non human, demonic faces. It really scared me.

I can relate to that experience darklight. It freaked me out when I saw a goulish figure in my minds eye for the first time. My guess is that it is the natural process of pressing deeper into the planetary mind and onwards towards the archetypal mind. No entities light or dark are exempt from the deeper portions and a faithful heart sees us through these otherwise disturbing experiences.

The most scary were the eyes in the mirror, like the Nosferatu vampire. Maybe if we do sufficient practise, we can control it. I love to see a beautiful angel in the mirror.

[tamaryn]

Do vampires see angels in the mirror? Lol.

Don't expect to see much more than pure representations of your shadow morph before your eyes.

[Matt1]

The Meditation Technique of Mirror Gazing

Taken from:
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh,
Dynamics of Meditation,
Bombay, India, 1972
page 273
The technique of mirror gazing is a very powerful
method for encountering
one's unconsciousness.

By unconscious, Osho says,
that what he means is "less conscious".
The following instructions are given by Osho
on how to encounter it through mirror gazing:
Close the doors of your room
and put a big mirror just in front of you.
The room must be dark.
Then put a small flame by the side of the mirror
in such a way that it is not directly reflected in it.
Just your face is reflected in the mirror -
not the flame.
Then constantly stare into your own eyes
in the mirror.
Do not blink.
This is a forty-minute experiment.
Within two or three days
you will be able
to focus your eyes without blinking.
Even if tears come,
let them come but persist in not blinking.
And go on staring constantly into your eyes.
Do not change the stare.
Go on staring into the eyes - your OWN...
And within two or three days
you will become aware of a very strange phenomenon.
Your face will begin to take new shapes.
You may even get scared.
The face in the mirror will begin to change.
Sometomes a very different face will be there
which you have never known as yours.
But, really, all these faces belong to you.

Now the subconscious mind
is beginning to explode these faces.
these masks are yours!
Sometimes even a face
that belongs to your past life may come in.
And after one week of constant staring
for forty minutes,
your face will become just a flux,
just a film-like flux.
Many faces will be coming and going constantly.
After three weeks you will not be able to remember
which is your face.
Your own face, you will not be able to remember,
because you have seen so many faces
coming and going.

If you continue anyway,
then after three weeks the strangest thing happens.
Suddenly there is no face in the mirror.
The mirror is vacant.
You are staring into emptiness.
There is no face at all.

This is the moment!
Close your eyes,
and encounter the unknown.
When there is no face in the mirror
just close your eyes.
This is the most significant moment.
Close the eyes, look inside
and you will face the unknown.
You will be naked,
completely nothing,
as you ARE.
All deceptions fall.

This is the reality,
but the society has created many, many
layers, not to be aware of it.
Once you know yourself in your nakedness,
your total nakedness, you begin to be
a different person.
Then you cannot deceive yourself.
Now you know what you are,
and unless you know what you are
you can naver transform,
because any transformation becomes possible
only in this naked reality.

This naked reality is potential
for any transformation.
No deception can be transformed.
Your original face is now here,
and you can transform it.
And really, just a will to transform it,
will affect the transformation.

But you cannot transform your false faces.
You can change them,
but you cannot transform them.
By change I mean you can replace them
with another face.
So, a thief can become a monk.
A criminal can become a saint.
It is very easy to change,
to replace the masks, the faces.
These are no transformations at all.

Transformation means
becoming that which you really are.
The moment you face the unconscious,
encounter the unconscious,
you are face to face
with the reality
of your authentic being.

This encounter is basic, foundational,
for any religious happening.
So, many many methods have been invented.
There are sudden methods.
There are gradual methods.
I have told you about a gradual method.

[Stranger]

Nice find, Matt!

[Reaper]

The first time I tried this I could see all my bones beneath my skin. Maybe I was a walking skeleton? :p

[Matt1]

I have seen different faces, faces melt, mold and masks. I believe most of them are subtle fractions of the personality subconsciously projected.

[AnthroHeart]

I looked in the mirror in a dream, and I had a big afro.

[tamaryn]

Sometimes i lose my face in the mirror? I see no head, just the filling in of objects behind me.

I was disappointed when I was trying to see faces, but none would appear at all just the headless one over and over again.

[Plenum]

This is indeed the case when I look in the mirror and focus. I see many faces, and honestly, very creepy, non human, demonic faces. It really scared me.

what did you do with the experience?

[darklight]

This is indeed the case when I look in the mirror and focus. I see many faces, and honestly, very creepy, non human, demonic faces. It really scared me.

what did you do with the experience?

I guess the faces I saw, are probably metaphors in a negative sense. Maybe I did very bad things in the past and the reason that I'm here in the present incarnation, is to correct my mistakes.

[darklight]

Sometimes i lose my face in the mirror? I see no head, just the filling in of objects behind me.

I was disappointed when I was trying to see faces, but none would appear at all just the headless one over and over again.

You don't have to see anything.

There is only one magical power you need, the most powerful one, and that's love.

[AnthroHeart]

There is only one magical power you need, the most powerful one, and that's love.

Well said. Working on self love myself.

[Zachary]

This is indeed the case when I look in the mirror and focus. I see many faces, and honestly, very creepy, non human, demonic faces. It really scared me.

what did you do with the experience?

I guess the faces I saw, are probably metaphors in a negative sense. Maybe I did very bad things in the past and the reason that I'm here in the present incarnation, is to correct my mistakes.

I havn't seen faces with my eyes necessarily but I can relate to having had those dark images in my minds eye at time, in the past. 

As long as you fear it and turn away from it "oh i dont want to see that!!" or feeling like " I have no power over what comes into my thought" 

this is simply an illusion. 

Let the faces come. Observe the fine details of the experience. 'Staff in hand', holding tight to your inner knowing. Your honest and transparent desire to seek and serve the Creator in Love protects you. There is nothing REALLY outside of you. There is nothing that can intrude into your thoughts . What fears have you impregnated with your attention? Be naked and observe your fears head on...let them teach you. 

These are things I found helpful

[michael430]

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[Bluebell]

puh! i can't see anything except my stupid old mug.

[alicewhite]

As a child I would upside down reflected mirror ceiling walk, I was altering my awareness I was seeing things through the looking glass I was in underland it was curiouser and curiouser as was I , I was thinking at least six impossible things before breakfast to feel full for the rest of the day and my cereal mom was proud as was the council of nine and I never let them get my goat cause I dug a hole so deep that I forgot the sun and so now I float, and to me the dark side of the moon is blindingly clear in each and everyway , before now and then there and over here.
my boat upon silver lake with no AW sails awaa and still stays still yet not and stays still afloat

[alicewhite]

Awen springs to mind,x

[Zachary]

I did this exercise for the first time today. It was interesting. My body mostly (95 percent ish) disappeared but couldn't see through me...thats the best way I can describe it. My eyes however did not fade. I couldn't continue for any longer after a certain point I felt a sick feeling in my stomach in the solar plexus also just felt uncomfortable after a certain point. Not sure what to make of it yet but I was surprised by the results. Also, the lighting on my face was strange...at some points my face was glowing, very similar to how someone would appear on a heat sensor but the 'heat' was only in certain spots on my face within the outline of my head. It was neon whitish-yellowish...hard to describe...more like light than a color.

I have always felt mirrors are magical but I've never considered this type of excessive/experience before....cool.