The Viewmaster - Videos

Some of you may recall that little toy from your past called the Viewmaster. A small binocular like toy that opened up new worlds with images on a slide placed on a round, flat reel that is inserted into the viewer. To get there, you had to use an object that required you to point it to a bright light source as you peered through the eyepieces and observed a miracle: gorgeous color images of national parks, cartoon characters, or perhaps animals in incredible three-dimensional realism!
 
So to when you allow yourself to view the inner perspective through the Viewmaster of your consciousnesses, the witness of one’s authentic self,  you can see through to the shadows of our interiority.  An inner light devoid of fear that brings with it the objectification of our subjective experiences that has led us to interpret our everyday experience through past experience.  Yet we begin to believe that we are the result of those experiences as opposed to experiencing what is right now as it really is, uncolored from our past.

Instead of thinking of our SELF as the many images, we need to appreciate and understand that the images are just the colored emotional make up of our Psyche, our true self is the LIGHT itself, the witness of those experiences.  Try to imagine that deep within your being resides at birth a pure crystal polished glass that sees all things as they truly are. Think of it as a universal lens or eye of God, nature, self etc.

  “The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye
 and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love."
Meister Eckhart

But as we experience this life one of two things happens.  We grow up feeding our ego through attachment to desire, vice, wants and needs which clouds that polished glass and increasingly adds layers of dirt, mud and so on covering the access to the light. This leads to shame, guilt or remorse for things done or done unto us.  As Eric Fromm says in Man for himself, an inquiry into the psychology of ethics (1947), Psychology is nothing more then man dealing with his own morality. Or what one can call the disloaction of the self from the incompatibility of a persons life pattern and belief system that leads to collapse and  the need for rebuilding or transformation.



The second is that there may have been a traumatic experience that actually cracks or shatters this EYE leading to a shattering of self splintering into many selves and can actually lead to what we know as multiple personality disorder. This feeling of broken dreams of what could, or should have been that literally causes a break within the self where one walks alone in the shadow world of a dark and broken spirit cut off from reality of the here and now always stuck in the past.

For most what is required is an inner cleansing and objectification that things we have done do not define who we are.  For those whose glass is broken or maybe even shattered, thereapy will likely be required to help put the pieces back together again.

Those who have experienced the interiority of their inner self through meditation and contemplation have found a medium in which to polish that lens help to resolve the inner demons by confronting them in the light of your awareness. To look into the mirror of your soul and begin the much needed housecleaning that polishes that glass of your inner being and uncovering the layers of a lifetime of an ego filled life. To learn as did the Zen monk, “No Self, No problem,”

To this end, Binaural beat technology is a fantastic aide in interior exploration as it literally settles the mind in the Theta and Delta state to perceive through the “I” of the witness of your true self, the Viewmaster.

However, if you have experienced trauma, the confrontation with your shadow self can be deceiving as you will ultimately seek to distance yourself from those repressed memories. Memories that are too painful to revisit so the need for therapy is needed to help put the pieces back together again with the help of a trained guide of the psyche.  Like Humpty Dumpty, the inner lens has been cracked, and such a person feels broken as so many pieces of broken glass distorting reality through the many shards or painful experiences that have yet to be dealt with.

Or as Joseph Campbell asks…
“What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle? This can be metaphorically understood as identifying with the Christ in you.”

Behind all the forms of personality of the plastic personification we manifest to best suit the present circumstance there is behind this mask, the true “I”.  Like Eckhart Tolle who realized when he said to himself, “I can’t stand my SELF!”  This simple statement makes it easy to appreciate the separateness of our self from our authentic Self. And it is in moments of meditation that you can experience the true self literally watching the mind of what you think is you, working, thinking, driving, talking and carrying on the everyday experience of life. We watch our thoughts as they continue to arise in the mind, happy, sad, convinced, confused, and angry. Which of those thoughts are you? Which one do we identify with? Who is it that experiences all of these thoughts?  Who am “I?”  These are the universal pursuits of those awakening from the nothingness they feel inside and who want to heal and let go of all the pain they’ve held so long till they break away from the idea of me and find the SELF. As Linking Park sings in

All of us have a running movie in our mind that when making us feel good, is engaging and we find our SELF engrossed in the images as we release the emotion we desire. But the movie that we see we feel is US. Instead of looking at the screen, what if we looked behind the image. What would we see? We would see little transparent frames like the slides on the Viewmaster . What is happening is the little frames are moving as the light shines through the frames and projects onto what you perceive to be the theater of your mind.

But because the frames are moving  from moment to moment to moment you see this as motion and think these experiences define who you are.By looking outward through these moving images we see this projection as experience censored or colored by previous experience. But what if you were to turn inward as in meditation?

When you look in you see the stream of thoughts that is constantly in motion like clouds of thoughts moving through the sky of your awareness. At night when you can’t sleep, these clouds are in such abundance that it seems as if a storm of thoughts is racing through your mind, rushing from one worry or anxiety to another. In meditation when we turn inward the idea is to SLOW down the thinking process and see each of these thoughts for what they are until we begin to see the clear blue sky of our own awareness.

When you focus your attention on these thoughts to watch the mind, the images slow down and in the state of relaxation we begin to have clarity, as the fast moving slides slow down to a point where we can see the transparency of them.  And this is where it can start to get interesting. It’s unfortunate that many can never get here long enough to appreciate it. There life is moving at fast forward, mind racing, emotions unresolved, suppressed to the point of creating an internal sate of depression.  It is these excessive and compulsive thoughts that Eckhart Tolle calls mental noise or the pollution of your soul.

Ever talk to yourself? Ever been in a big city where there were people talking to themselves out loud and you thought they were crazy? Have you ever driven your SELF crazy with self talk?

The doorway to Divinity is located and available as a direct experience in the exact split second of 'NOW' which is discernable between the space of the emptiness of two thoughts.
The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occurred in them as yet. The level of consciousness has to have advanced to the stage where such an intention would be meaningful and attractive. Meditation and Contemplation are keys to unlock the soul and the pathway to free the mind of itseself by peering through the viewmaster of the authenic SELF.

The Viewmaster

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body
also is full of light; but when [thine eye] is evil, thy body also [is] full of darkness.

 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

 If thy whole body therefore [be] full of light, having no part dark, the whole
 shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.




DEO