Sekhem: Inner Light, Readiness and Support Without Dependence

Physical Light and Inner Light

Working with the two points beside the eyes brings together physical sensation, energy and timing. Pressure around the eyes can produce floaters or a slight appearance of light. In this work, the physical response combines with the energy. Sometimes the timing comes together so that the experience opens completely into a white field. At other times, there may be only a little light or some geometry.

The next part of the contact involves placing the facilitator’s head against the participant’s forehead. Within this explanation of the practice, that contact transfers the physical sensations around the eyes toward the third eye. There is the light arising as a physical response to pressure, together with the intuitive movement toward that light: the wish to enter it.

The teaching describes the third eye as also having light receptors that become activated. These two aspects, the physical experience of light and the third-eye experience, come together simultaneously.

Patrick describes this meeting of physical sensation and energy as something that still amazes him every time.

Sharing: “It really blew me away.”

Sound and the Timeless State

Sharing: “When I was in the sarcophagus, I was myself, but I didn’t feel like myself. I have lung problems, so I can’t breathe in really deeply. When I did the OM, toward the end it didn’t even feel as though I was doing it. It kept going and going. I thought, ‘I can’t do that. I don’t have the capacity to do that.’”

Response: Several things can be happening in that experience. One is the complete loss of a sense of time within the sound. The experience becomes timeless. A sound may feel as though it has continued for an hour, or ten minutes, without that feeling corresponding to its actual duration.

Finding the right frequency can bring this timeless state about automatically.

Sharing: “I could hear and feel the difference. When I found it, I just went calm.”

Response: There is an infinite quality to it. Then the mind comes back in and asks, in astonishment, what that was.

Giving this experience enough space matters. Rather than trying to fit many activities into a session, the emphasis can be on what feels most important: time in the sarcophagus with the sound. That alone can be enough.

A small group made it possible for each person to have about five minutes. Often there is only about one minute. With twenty people, even two minutes each leaves little time to integrate the experience. Five minutes allows more time to enter the timeless state. Spending a whole night would be another experience again.

Recognising the Light Again

Sharing: “I didn’t see the light, but with my eyes closed it looked as though there was a little bit of light.”

Response: In this instance, the eye-related contact had not been used. The participant had gone down so quickly that there had been no time to do it. There was an opportunity to explore it later in the water.

The experience is different in daylight. Darkness makes the appearance of light especially vivid, which is why the lights are turned out for this work. During a dark-room meditation, after several days in darkness, receiving this activation can bring a striking sense of seeing light everywhere.

Once the experience has been activated, there can be a recognition of how to see the light again. Even the slightest sensation of pressure may become noticeable alongside the appearance of light.

Focusing the eyes toward the third eye is described here as working through a similar principle. Patrick’s own experience is that simply looking with the third eye creates enough of that sensation around the eyes, without touching them, for light to appear immediately. From that light, the attention shifts to inner light.

Patrick describes times during classes when he goes to bed, closes his eyes and sees no darkness at all, only light. In his experience, the energy is part of this. It is a combination of factors rather than one isolated action.