2 Forces Block the Spiritual Eye - Yogananda in Mejda
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Yogananda mentions 2 forces that block entry to the spiritual eye. Vikshepa and Avarana skater our attention and throw a veil over our eyes, blocking us from the Truth of the Deep Brain. Let's unravel this.
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After thirty years of meditation, I realize how much I have been left to my own devices like a babe in the woods. Your explanations and techniques suddenly open a whole new depth to my practice. I am very grateful for this; may you be blessed and keep it coming please. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
That's so fantastic! Well done! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Why don't you get a Guru?
@@raumshen9298 I followed an Indian guru for 10 years; spent weeks with him in the Himalaya and I certainly received much knowledge and awareness from him. At some point though, the chayla must find his way on his own and in this process, he or she meets many situations and precious guides. This was one such occasion. 🙏🏼
After doing a practice of pranayama for 35 min and then I do your method of putting my thumb in the ear and the little finer in the corner of the eye and the other fingers on the forehead systematically after seeing some points of light the spiritual eye appears in forme of light circle and then it changes to a big surface of light.
I can see the spiritual eye after doing pranayama or doing any other meditation by doing your method.
I hope I am not wrong because I am a normal person and don’t have a lot of self confidence in me.
You are the rare person who explains everything with all details and all problematic things that we normal people have in doing meditation you resolve and put the time to explain.
Thanks for your time that you put for us.
God bless you.
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Great explanation. Great video. Thanks Forrest. Enjoy your time in Florida.
Thank you Michael! 🙏
@@ForrestKnutson Namaste from India Forest. I have been doing the shambhavi mudra for over a year and for the past few months i have been seeing the cave and waves of the blue and gold/orangeish light but i cant seem to make any more progress. What according to you should i do to break through this plateau? Please do reply if you have a solution. This is gettting frustrating. Thanks
Love the way you explain things and articulate on such complex subjects !
Paul! Thank you so much! Always a joy to hear from you!
@Forrest Knuttson,,, first I need to tell you that your manner of being and speaking is very tender and gentle and I love it.Also I saw in the writings that you read to us it said that the yogi must have a pure diet, this is maybe a huge reason why alot of people are having a hard time seeing the spiritual cave .Thats very key to be able to SEE.
I think so, Kim. Especially carbohydrates and gluten which greatly effect the breath rate. Thank you!
@@ForrestKnutson yes,and sugar too.Ty
Thank you so much Forrest!!! Somehow UA-cam offered your one video today!! I am so happy I discovered you!!! Thanks a lot!!! A year ago, from the first time doing that guided meditation by Dr. Joe Dispenza I got lucky to experience all lights, a flash light of white , yellow light, then pulsating purple lights, waves of purple lights, then it was shining like a diamond purple light, and inside like many thunderstorms lightening!!! But it was something beyond my comprehension!! I have never experienced something like that, and didn’t understand what did happened to me!! At the beginning my whole body started shaking, then my eyes became heavy and eyes lids started shaking, then I felt like whole my body was rocket flying up through the whole space, and then my body calmed down, and I started seeing flashing white lights, then purple lights!!! I was sitting and watching it like tv or movie at movie theater:)) my body was so light, I almost didn’t feel it, I didn’t move for entire hour, I was feeling so happy inside, calm, it was euphoric state, I guess state of trance!! All I wished it’s to stay in that state fir as long as it’s possible!!! It was amazing!!! At that time I didn’t understand what did happened to me.. FORREST, can you please comment on my experience and explain what it was. And what it could be achieve even more with meditation? Thank you so much!!!
Thanks for your concern towards the budding yogis. Thanks for the list of books. I will definitely get them to read.
Wonderful Balsala!
Love the intro with the ocean and palm trees in FL! I am so glad to have found your channel, I have been following Sadghuru from India as my guru. I absolutely love him and his teachings. But now that I have been listening to your teachings, I have been learning so much that I hadn't thought of before. Also sometimes Yogi's and mystics do not explain the results they get from doing the practices. This is very valuable information ( I'm finding now with you). I have managed to see what you call the spiritual eye, the cave and a white light in the middle. I feel that alot of my body disappears, but because I had never heard that it was normal, I was always stopping myself there. I was scared! Now I'm very excited to move forward!!🙏
Amazing Heidi, that's very synchronistic, since I just published a new video called, Rapture and the Freeze Response. I think you would really like it.
@@ForrestKnutson lol yes I watched it and it was like a light bulb went on in the room! 😃
@@heidipucci9078 fantastic! 🤩🙏
Forest you are a godsend. Thank you for your explanations 🙏✨
Awesome, Grace!!
You can bring it to an accessible level, matters that otherwise seem unreachable and frustrating. So much appreciated your knowledge and generosity to share.
Thank you for this talk. It was so intriguing that I listened to it twice to make sure I caught as much as I could - also the best discussion I ever heard about how to actively listen.
Fantastic Miles!
When i started seeing the eye while closing my eye it became very intence and blissfull , meditating 6-8 hours a day . Just longing for that oneness. The thing is that im seeing the same things ... light as a n lightbeeings and the eye still while my eyes are open. Been in samadhi for 20-30 days a few times. I stop breathing in a sec while enter meditation now. Just ssitting nowenjoying this space. Dont know where to go from here. I see even my self flying in the space in front .
Marvelous astral travel 👍
@@SLAKSHMIRV Astral in awake super conscious state ? Is that possible during samadhi bliss state ? Please explain ? I done astral travel before in conscious dream state sleeping , is this from the same part of brain ?
I LOVE YOUR ENTHUSIASM!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I am very fortunate to have found you. You have such wonderful ways of teaching this material!
Thank you Valerie! 🤩🙏
I've never heard anyone discuss this before, and I had no idea what this phenomenon was. I've seen this dark spot my entire life as I was trying to go to sleep, and always tried to "enter" that place, but I normally fall asleep right then. I've been close enough to study the shape of it, which is asymmetrical. A couple of times I've gone in and tried to pass the information to my mind so I'd "remember" it later, and immediately I was booted out. I've told friends that sometimes it's so bright inside my mind that I can't sleep at night as periodically there is a brilliant light that I can't quite see into. Now I'm really excited to check it out more! Thank you for this info.
That's fantastic 🤩
Thank you fellow spellunker. Watching this, i feel the haze of future actions come over me like a fog -- attempts to meditate, witty comments -- i shake them off and there you are still talking but more alive. Another shift and the sounds of birds and cars enter the scene.
I feel that i must make a practice of clearing these subtle distractions and that this will come both in being increasingly present in daily activities and in withdrawn practices.
Yes, you have it right. It's a long process. I like to say it is a marathon and not a sprint... Fellow Spellunker! I love that!! 🙏
Amazing talk, such deep rare insights and practical guidance, thanks so much Forrest Guruji, Namaste
Thank you Subha!
Forrest I'm on journey,and I ty for guidance.🔥💛🔥
I love the way your videos are so practical.
And useful by explaining the waves and the speed of them, thus helping us from your experience.
Reading from the text was great too, explaining it as you go.
The NLP tidbit about trance was useful to me too.
Brilliant! Thank You
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Fantastic Drew! That's exactly my intent! So glad to hear it's making an impact! 😊
This was terrific Forrest. What a blessing! You and Duane are incredible teachers...gifts to us all. This was most helpful and I know I must view it again, and perhaps even again, to receive all you have given.
Wonderful Kanta!
Beautiful - i'm going to listen to this quite a few times i think to get it all. Your description of the cave and the colours - Yes!!! I was trying to describe that to my husband - and told him -like a rainbow obsidian that is moving like water waves.I also get that circular movement thing . . not like vertigo (which i've had ) but a pleasant soft movement feeling. I love what you said about listening to people. Tonight i'm sitting up, . . happen to be thinking of my family (not with for a long time) as it is my birthday. I remembered the family gatherings of people talking over each other -it was so exhausting . I used to say things like 'the dragon in my kitchen gave my cat LSD today" to see if anyone noticed. Nope. The thing about the predator mind. I do that - wow - yes, must try harder! (oh my) . Thankyou for this
That was beautiful. That was the experience I had when going past no thought. It seemed, to describe it in hindsight, that when I stopped trying to stop the observer and just relax, it went away and death started. Brilliant explanation. Thank you
Thank You. Very inspiring
Incredible, I have read and been taught so much on so much, but this simple explanation did so much more than what I could’ve spent years searching in books🙏
Fantastic, Laura! 🙏
Thank you so much Forrest for another wonderful explanation. My take is the surrender is so important! Letting go.
You are so right! 🤗🤗🤗
Aum Guru Aum. Very beautiful and inspirational. I love it so much
Wonderful Parmila!
Wow that part about the 3 levels of listening was awesome. Thanks
Thank you so much Forrest ji for ur guidance
Thank you so much for clarifying experiences I have had recently during meditation. I could not explain them and had no idea of what they were. I started to have a clue when a golden/yellow circle formed and was filled with a purple like color which had in the center like a cloud colored / bone white mass that kept circling counter clockwise. It was the same picture I have always seen of Paramahansa Yogananda, except instead of his picture was the cloud color mass rotating counter clockwise. I then thought that this could be the portal of the third eye. Finally getting near after so many years. Ever grateful to you. OM TAT SAT!
Fantastic Luis! That's the spiritual eye!
@@ForrestKnutson Thank you again. I had more to write but it was too long. The way you described how the universe keeps unfolding is what I have experienced; how it stars appearing with upward motion similar in motion to a tornado but very quiet and peaceful. Also, I have been cut off by the two defenses (I was not aware of them) because since I am aware of the surrounding I start analyzing and intellectualizing..., and that’s when it vanishes and ends. Thank you again for giving us so much.
Similar what I saw over a year ago..
Infinite Gratitude
Thank you for all you share.
I love your style and teachings.
Blessings ❤️🙏🕊️
You are so welcome!
Love from India ❤️ 🇮🇳
Thank you Rahul!
Great explanations, very important video!
Thank you Joshua! 🙏🙏🙏
New sub here, and you explain very nicely.Your a kind soul and I really thank you for your time .
Thank you Kim!
I truly appreciate all that you have gone through. I’m very sorry that you did but you are now able to answer all of my questions! Thank you so very much.
You are so welcome!
Authentic teaching! Reminds me of “Advice from the Lotus-Born”. Thank you so much Forrest!
Thank you! 🤩🙏
Thank you for this Forrestji, it's very helpful.
Ashwinji! So good to hear from you! I'm so glad!
Forrestji, I have 2 questions (1) Does one go through the breath states even while doing Kriya, SRF Kriya breaths usually use the mouth, how relevant are the breath states (which are felt in the nose)? (2) Other than OM japa in the chakras are there any other differences between Lahiri Baba's original Kriya and the SRF kriya ? Thank you in advance.
@@ashwins.selvarajan1714 yes, the breath states will happen automatically so long as HRV is being established. The outbreath has to be slightly longer, and the Kriya breath long enough. A nasal breath is always more economical for the body. ... I'm going to message you about the rest. 🙏
Thanks a lot, Forrestji.
Thanks beyond words for this pure source info!
This is a wonderful lesson FK. Thanks for explaining what few people can.
Thank you Dougji! God bless you and your family!
I THANK YOU so much for sharing this. Very helpful!
Wonderful Selena!!
This was very helpful for my understanding. Thanks very much.
Perfect Rosanne!
My brain is used to getting its visual information from my physical eyes. Hard habit to break. But there is always visual information traveling through my mind. That’s what becomes bright in my mind’s eye during meditation.
Thank you Sir :)
Metta and Regards.
Thank you Karan! 🙏🙏
So beautiful! Thank you thank you thank you!
Thank you Ryan! 🌹
So true... Thank you 🙏
Very interesting video. I have read the book Mejda twice, mostly to gain insight on Yogananda's youth as told by his brother Sananda Lal Ji. I must re-read Mejda, looking for all these detailed descriptions of meditation and the spiritual eye.
That's great. This is one of those few passages like that. If not the only.
I've been calling mine my 'point of singularity', it looks like an eclipse with a white corona. It appears everytime now in daily meditation and is followed by spectacular swirling bright indigo accents with pulsating green and purple shapes. Thank you for your insights!
Wonderful! The swirling is the beginning of the "3rd Knot" that I talk about in a few videos.
I have this same type of effect while I’m doing breath work, I had tried to focus myself on those images one day and I still can’t explain what I saw. It was odd, but very calming. I need to try his method of looking at the nose and feeling between the brows. I always go super crosseyed(eyes closed as well) when I focus too much.
wow! Such clarity! profoundly interesting talk Forrest. I had read Mejda but never really taken that on board. My experience has been exactly as described- I saw the ring of light and then, almost on recognising it, it vanished. That was many years ago. Now I feel `i am better prepared to encounter it again!
That's wonderful! I'm so glad to hear that! It will come for you.
Wow thank you! I have never had an explanation of what the light orb like sight is when I meditate.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Forrest Knutson- while growing up in Calcutta India I had heard this term Brahmari Pranayama. Brahmari in Sanskrit means a bee. In that form of Pranayama the sound is like a bee.
Yes that's right the idea is to actually hear it eventually.
I read Yogananda and a few others. I don't care about seeing stuff or specific experiences. I am a householder. I just want to have a steady daily practice and that's it. I am not after many Kriyas either. If I can do Shambhavi, khetchari with Aum Jappa, that is fine for me. I have not seen anywhere where all these are explained, and I quite doubt you are going to get to them in all the hours of videos I must watch in order to find that out! Thank you.
That would be a very good practice. I would add to that the HRV Resonance. This is a huge key. And you found my website I see from another comment.
You are amazing sir. Thank you.
Awe, thank you!
hello mister Forrest
i like the way you provide your content, its simple and very easy to understand
can you speak about the background high pitched noise that you hear from your pineal gland, which yogis refer to it as the Aum sound "but i dont understand how that noise can be as Aum sound"
can you please talk about that, i wanna hear it from you, i can understand you easily
also, dos practicing more than 1 form of 3rd eye chakra is bad and does more damage than good "for instance, practice sound yoga, and other times hakula yoga" or is it okay to do so?
When you first hear the Nada - sound, then it will be a high pitch, constant sound, like a high hum, which has been likened to a bee. Then the sound will deepen. When you hear it, do some HRV-RB as you listen, and the sound will shift into the next sound. A little deeper in pitch, as if it was a flute, but still a constant sound. Then a harp, then a gong, then rushing water, then the Roar of the OM sound.
@@ForrestKnutson mygod! so this is how it shifts ! will definitely try it this weekend.
i like your Hakula method, its really simple , but will meditating on this sound "in night lets say " will ruin my hakula progress since its easer to practice during the day ?what do you think
Thank You!
Thank you, Kim!
You're brilliant pal thank you
Awe, thank you!
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Oculomotor bloc . IS used also by Bersekers .need alimentation of strong light to transform in Wolf or Bear or Trigher .
Before mental tech was used by wariors
In Egipt was also psikik ones .
Thanks again for all this Forest I really needed this information and it's been near impossible to find. I still haven't seen anything about somebody who gets hypnic jerks, so if you have anything about that it'd be great to see what you say
Wonderful! Did you see the video abou automatic Kriyas? What's happening is the body gets confused. You are integrating with the subconscious and so you feel all of the subconscious movements through the body as it transfers information. You are picking up that information which is purely usually in the realm of the subconscious and not available to the conscious mind. So the subconscious is giving the signal and then you are consciously receiving the signal and the signals double up and the body doesn't know what to do and so it acts out the subconscious material in an automatic movement. I hope that makes sense and maybe the video will help to clarify as well.
It doesn't thank you. I have a little bit of a weird situation though, or I guess not weird. But my body had suffered trauma from almost dying about 4 years ago and I was basically brought back to life, for lack of better words. And it doesn't even just happen to meditation it happens when I'm going to sleep and I've gotten it so I don't jerk anymore but my heart still releasing whatever chemical or doing whatever it's doing and it starts pounding again. And I've been at it for about a year and it still interrupts my meditations all the time and interrupts my sleep all the time too. And I know that it partially has to do with me letting go too but that one's much easier said than done sometimes. So for lack of a better explanation I was kind of hit with a spiritual awakening like a train. And the problem is I wanted to try to get some help but I'm not looking to go in to be diagnosed as schizophrenic or something like that, which would be the likely way that most doctors would see this. So I've turned to the people that are describing to a t what's going on with me like you. I'm still going to go to the doctor for other reasons but I don't want to go to them for their diagnosis of mental illnesses of which I see them get wrong like 90% of the time. And not only are they wrong they're very often basically speaking a spell under these people to make it worse. What's really sucks because I know they have the best intentions. Ty again.
thanks you. I love youuuuuuuuuuuu
Thank you! I'm so glad it is helpful!
Omg i relate,ive see this and much more
Good explanation, liked the video. Thank you.
I have some questions, how can I post them personally.
You can write me at thatyogiguy@gmail.com ... Thank you!
@@ForrestKnutson thank you.
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Which book is this excerpt 5:42 from ? I have Mejda but its not there...
Hi, love your explanation is a center or place to learn from you? I'm in USA. Thank you
Hi Tina, thank you! I have a Patreon where I answer more questions directly and have additional videos. I also initiate kriya in person to those who come and see me, via the Panchanan Bhattacharya line, and I also do phone calls for individual guidance. Last, I'm working on an in depth video training, right now, which should be releasing soon.
Nice one. Like the universe spinning yer? 🙏
Exactly Robin!
I ended up conversing in the number two, because otherwise I never got a word in and felt small and insignificant. Obviously I need work to get to number three.
Fuckk i got so much more tp learn amd i thought i knew enough im happy because this means there's infinite knowledge to know yessssss
Haha! That's the way it goes, isn't it?
Forrest... I'm so glad you point all tgis things...no body gives details like you... Thank u so much... I see that star in the distance, is white and small but some times very clear as a fisical star... I have so many questions... I saw the star before starting meditation then I star to do wim holf method and it bring me to meditate then I find you...Great videos. Can you talk about what is that sensation between the eyes on the forhead while meditation and if we should put the attention on it and intensify it? Thank you!
Thank you Alex! I'm so glad you found me! I have several videos where I mention Lahiri Mahasaya's 3 Knots. That sensation is the 1st Knot. If you could watch those and then let me know if you have any questions.
@@ForrestKnutson Im on it right now...thank you for the fast answer!
Forrest...actually I'm listening all your videos..there is quality information in them... How can I write u by Email? I would like to let u know about my experience...thank you
@@dercamaralex5998 I'd like that. At thatyogiguy@gmail.com
@@ForrestKnutson ok... I will write you bext monday, i want to take my time to explain you... If you haven't see a documentary call WATER THE GREAT MISTERY , is on you tube...you should see that...is facinating what hapens to the water and the intention of the mind. Thx
Really love!!!
I always seek permission , waiting patiently outside the cave....for the doors to open and Babaji to embrace me.....
Wonderful, Mark!
Hi Forest, im curious about your content and would like to know if you speak from personal experience regarding your information. Have you pierced the spiritual eye yourself?
I wouldn't feel comfortable speaking if I hadn't. Yes I have, though I don't think of it in terms of piercing, since this induces the wrong side of the brain.
Why does pratyahara come after pranayama in Patanjalis' ashtanga 8-step Yog... I'm just wondering if the breathing doesn't help automatically to prepare for the kind of "spread focus" you seem to be talking about? Damn you're good Forrest..your verbal skills are superb! Thanks
It comes after because he's trying to codify a process. As we do the work of HRV Resonance, and sit very still at the same time, we begin to encounter a Freeze Response in which a kind Sleep Paralysis happens while we are fully conscious. That's pratyahara. ... Yes, it can happen automatically, depending on how often we use the right brain in our daily lives. If we use it less, then it's a good idea to try and induce that right brain - the land of Non-dual - on purpose. Great to hear from you Ellen!
I started Kriya Yoga a couple of weeks ago. I watched 7 minutes of it and can already say this is the most important content I've come across. I have experienced all the things mentioned in the beginning of this documents. Bright light, dark centre. Flashing. Sometimes a deep sea of blue. Sometimes very intense golden light. A tunnel blue/golden colours, revolving. But I can't get to see what's at the end or behind. And I do feel there are forces preventing me to see.
Wonderful, Hugo, well done! To enter into the cave you have to induce the correct part of the brain, which is expansion. I've spoken a little on this on UA-cam, and written some on Patreon.
@@ForrestKnutson thanks I'll look it up and Patreon too. Do you know why I often get 'blinded' by light in a way I can't possibly keep my eyes close and then I lose the connection: generally it's with bright light but earlier I had a very dense blue wide vision but god I had to struggle to keep my eyes closed and not lose the connection and after a couple of seconds I gave up had to open my eyes. I didn't feel I could relax: either fighting to keep the connection with the vision or just open my eyes and lose the connection. I couldn't see relaxing as helping my eyes not to open and lose the mental connection. I know some manage to meditate eyes open or half closed but not working for me at this stage - at least with the aim to connect with the spiritual eye. THANKS.
Amazing sir how you got this for only few week kriya practice 🙏
You were initiated by a Guru?
My first time here, that was really interesting. Question- it's all the brain was not really what I hoped to hear! Perhaps, being my first time I haven't understood a deeper meaning to that?
Hi Dorothy! I can understand that. I'm really not trying to take away from the internal experience, but to validate it further by pointing out that these experiences have a basis in the brain. A center where they can be found. Kind of like a specific radio station for tuning in the experience of the Divine.
Hi Forest.I meditate everyday.During my meditation I haven't seen colorful lights or felt anything extraordinary.I just feel peaceful and I usually have a relaxing day afterwards.I noticed however that I am able to see outlines around objects, people, birds and even trees.It is a grayish outline.Is it that I perceiving through the spiritual eye?
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Hi Sahara, I do initiation in Lahiri Mahasaya's kriya yoga. Is that something you are interested in? You can contact me at thatyogiguy@gmail.com
Forrest, do you still consume tamarind? Do you think pineal detox is worth pursuing through long periods or?
Only over short periods. So I would try it out only for a month or so.
I don't know how it is a coincidence but its giving me goosebumps that today it was first time ever that I felt the feeling of everything revolving during my meditation and I thought it might be a signal of me being unwell (although I was not feeling sick at all). The revolving feeling was like that of a planet Saturn's ring like an ellipse. And I came across your video on the same topic.
Yati, that's the sensation of the third knot. Take a look at my video about Lahiri Mahasaya and the 3 Knots
@@ForrestKnutson Sir I am new to meditation (have been doing third eye meditation since few weeks) just learning every day about the beauty of it. Yes I will go through all your videos about Lahiri Mahasaya. Thank you so much for your early response and suggestion. Respect and Namaskaram from India 🙏
@@ForrestKnutson Sir I saw couple of your videos on 3 knots and your kundalini's first experience. I wanted to know about my experience of hearing something in left ear ( not any bell kind of sound but something similar to when a heavy insect fly/crosses our ear). I have never experienced it earlier but since few weeks I have been experiencing it in my left ear. I am asking you because your videos are detailed and include your own experiences.
@@YatiChoudhary that is the beginning of the Nada sound. It will get deeper and deeper until it becomes the OM sound.
@@ForrestKnutson Thank you for the information sir. It means I need to start reading/gaining knowledge about the changes I am witnessing. Please share some sources (books, articles, link to your videos about it) where it is mentioned in detail about the changes a body/mind/sensations go through in meditation. Although I am trying to understand many things through your videos.
Mine is constantly swirling for the most part. It has sitting still before and even had a little bit of pattern come off at like a mandala and then it stayed like that for a while. But I'd say 90% of the time it's a swirling energy around a circle. Normally purple or green but it has gone through all the colors. With orange and red being the least. I don't get red much
jaya PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA ji ki jay!!!
Thanks for sharing this! In the bible it talks about something like the flaming swords that guard the garden of Eden, perhaps this is similar to that.
"He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life." ... Wow! Absolutely! Same discription of a scattering power!!
@@ForrestKnutson well ye i think so, truth is revealed all over if we have eyes to see, so many people think religions refer to different gods where they mostly all refer to god as one and just written in different words in different times and cultures
@@nicknackninja6111 well said!
AVARANA! Sometimes when I meditate it seems like I become aware of a literal veil in front of me which starts to slip down and then is involuntarily put back into place. What visuals I am able to get, are always dim and blurry. I have the condition aphantasia (mental blindness) and am near sighted. Dreams are in color and are clear.
Did you see the video that I released last? If you could come on my channel and watch the second most recent video called four stages of the spiritual eye. I think you will notice that it coincides with what you are seeing. And you don't have to see it perfectly.
@@ForrestKnutson I do see similar things and have had a few times where visuals were more intense. Hoping I get to meet my thumblike self someday. I just got the resonant breathing app a few days ago so I'm training with that, it's been fun. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge.
Looking at tip of nose & thinking spiritual eye making me feel bit sick/dizzy.
Tqm. Gracias
De nada Jose!
I am so glad I found your work and channel. I was asking this question on what this process is and what it was. I have heard that it is like a blue flame like the gas pilot on a boiler in a sea of gold. It is true, ask and you will find the answer. I do meditation, eat right, excercise and have a good positive mental diet, I do need to be more consistent. And, I keep getting this weird pressure funny feeling on and off for a few months. On my area of third eye, it just comes out of nowhere and leaves no pain at all justva presense . That is my next quest. What is it, what does it mean. I am and have always been spiritual never religious. I will be on the look out to attend any of your live presentations out in So. California Good blessings.
When you got this stage sir meanse how much time after starting the kriya please
It's very difficult to say how much time something will take, but I promise you this. If you work with HRV Breathing it will save you years. Decades even.
I was interested in your comment on NLP and ADHD. I have been diagnosed with ADHD. Do you have any recommendations for dealing with it?
Hi Ben! Removing all sugar from the diet has a big effect, and teaching yourself how to go into a trance is life-changing. So if you go to my very early videos and watch a video called The Learning state. That is teaching you Hakalau, it is a tool to go into a trance at any moment.
Forrest Knutson God Bless You 🙇 🙇 🙇
I’ll apply these and let you know how they work 😊
@@BenZen44 perfect!
Hi Forest. I have a curious experience with the spiritual eye. I meditate using your HRV methods and haven't yet had a strong spiritual eye experience (no problem, I am patient), however, recently I have been seeing quite clearly the spiritual eye in the various forms you describe when I am dozing in the morning. The thing is is that its not a particularly "spiritual" experience - more like just seeing a nice white star or waves of a circular light that is pleasant enough but not profound. I also can't go into it. ANy ideas on what's going on? Much love - thank you!
So if you watch my recent videos I talk about how we need to go into the slower brain waves and so that's what you're doing as you get very relaxed you're going into the alpha theta Delta and you are maintaining consciousness which is the beta. So this is very good and because of that you are able to see the spiritual eye. So you are doing a form of meditation. If you can practice your HRV resonance and be so comfortable and relaxed in a similar manner then you can do the same thing while practicing the HR v r. The spiritual eye was this way for me for years and years where I would see it and not enter and it was not blissful at that time. So I would continue with OM Japa in each of the chakras in order to cultivate more bliss and the experience of the Roll-Up. I hope you've seen the Big Bliss Training. Then once you have the freeze response and the Tranquil breath and the roll up and you see the spiritual eye then you can practice expansion. This is the way to enter into the cave.
@@ForrestKnutson thanks as always - you are helping me and many others so much!
in meditation once hug green light was flashing in my eyes and it was like a vortex , do you know what was that
You show the ring..but not the star?..why?..I'm not guessing..you probably have a reason..?..other than that you are doing a great service by disclosing your research into the original Kriya...those who know.. Already did.
Hi Forrest.. Nice video.. Thanks for taking efforts of making videos and sharing your knowledge.. Well I am practicing kriyayog from two years. I want to ask you something. Will you share your guru's name? Please share your email so that I can contact you.
Hi Nimisha, you can contact me at: thatyogiguy@gmail.com
Oh ok thanks Forrrest..
@@ForrestKnutson Hi FK, I have mailed you .. It might go in spam so informing you here. 🙏
@@nimishaj7 i just sent you a reply. :)
@@ForrestKnutson thank you so much for quick reply.. 🙏🙏
So beautifully explained and incredibly helpful - aahh, the timing of coming across your video. This has brought so much clarity to what I have been experiencing, and yes, I have been in predator mode! During meditation last night for the first time what until then had been a faint white/silver dot in the centre was now the star...'grasping' is the word that comes to mind when I think of what I was doing. Surrender, surrender, surrender. I look forward to going into mediation with these new insights. And thank you also for sharing all these wonderful book recs. Looking forward to tucking into more of your videos now.
Beautiful!! I'm so happy you get it!!
Forrest, thanks for all the good information. You mentioned that you have a video that teaches to separate our physical sight from our mental seeing (to help us see the spiritual eye). Do you happen to know the title of that video?
It's this one: ua-cam.com/video/jUb1s-v_QpM/v-deo.html&t
Bravo. Regards Australia
Thank you Christina!
The light is a bright indigo circle that pulses , but no gold or white. What does this indicate? Should I adjust?
Aaron, that is perfect. No, don't adjust the dial. Lol. The indigo is actually much deeper than the white or gold. So, its a succession of depth. First the white is possible. Then the white may turn to gold. Then the cave deepens and becomes blue or indigo. It's that cave which is the thing. That's what we want to go into in order for Absorption to happen.
NAMASTE 🙏, I too wish to share my personal spiritual experience 🙏
What is the kriya?
I physically feel my third eye. It feels like someone is touching it.
Great Christine! Did you see my video about Lahiri Mahasaya and the 3 Knots?
Great..🙏🙏
Thank you Mantu! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Choiceless awareness😊
How can I sit in? I'm in Miami Dade
Hi Damian! I'm actually on my way back, now. Sorry to miss you!
@@ForrestKnutson well let me know when your back around I'd love to get a chance to meet and learn from you. Thanks for the reply
garcia fantastic! I would love that! I will remember you for Florida.
@@bullishtitan8223 I have a student in Florida who is now teaching the original Kriya. Are you still interested?
@@ForrestKnutson yes absolutely
A year late!
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Very informative for practise but please do not bring contamination that is "krishna or Christ Consiousness".
You cannot contaminate those. They are what they are.
He sounds like an american Sadhguru lol just what my logical mind needed
LOL, that's cool.
@@ForrestKnutson yeah I enjoy your videos my logical mind needed so etching like this.
I like your explanation but it’s not all in the brain. Much more is happening that you’re not aware of.
Thanks Melvin. I'm actually not saying it's all the brain, but rather that the brain is involved. It gives a great structure to understand the process. Otherwise we are left to float in obscure metaphysical sayings.