The ‘Single Eye’ Experiment
It was the ‘Single Eye’ experiment that brought and continues to bring the truly revolutionary vision. It works like this : I hold out my glasses in front of me (sunglasses will do, as will simulating a pair of glasses with the hands). The fact is that I had become ‘other’ focused for so long that I had forgotten my basic nature, and the Single Eye experiment returned the focus to Here, where I am and have always been.
Watching the glasses carefully and slowly bringing them toward me has the effect of ‘dragging’ my attention inward along with the glasses, and when I put them on, I notice something both startling and oddly familiar — I am looking out of one eye, not two as I had been taught as a child.
More than an eye, it is as if I were looking out of an enormous open window with no frame, a window that is visibly empty and yet — and here is the astonishing news — is fully AWARE! How did this happen? Why is it awake? How did I not notice this when it’s been here all along?
And the beauty of attending to my Single Eye is that I can do so anytime and anyplace, simply by reversing my attention, now that I know how and where to look.
I find this open Awareness nowhere else in the world. It is truly unique. The more I attend, the more I realize that this empty Awareness is Who I really Am, the ‘First-Person-Singular’, wearing God’s monocle, as it were, whenever I don my glasses.
And what a marvelous view I have! I stretch my arms out wide and ‘hold’ this enormous Single Eye that I am, into which everything — the entire universe — fits with ease. I look, and I see my Light. I look, and I see no difference btweeen this Light of Awareness and the changing scene within it — they appear together.
And yet I know that without this Light, there would be no scene. I am the unmoved screen upon which the moving show appears. I am the Light which creates the scene, and the scene which contains the Light. I am both the dreamer and the dream, occurring Here. I am all of it.
~ From: The Light That I Am by J C Amberchele. To read the complete article, >>>Click Here.