Wednesday, 6 February 2008




These two pictures are based on my personal experience of meditation. Sometimes, when meditating, I try and locate my consciousness; exactly where consciousness is in relation to my body. It seems centred around the eyes, but that's because they have the strongest sense input. But when I concentrate, the sense of where 'I' am changes, it can be in more than one place. If I'm in physical pain, it can go to the location of the pain, as well as being around my eyes inside my skull. The longer I look it can also be outside my skull, away from my body.

I've heard that when a person with the Deva Eye (clairvoyance) watches a human consciousness in the mental world, it's like a swarm of fireflies flying around. Not having one definite location, but swarming around mental objects as it thinks about different things.

This is the first picture I drew in the book. I remember meditating in St. James Church in Picadilly London and conceiving it as I tried to explain the perception of my consciousness filling a whole church. Then I drew it up over a soda water in a pub in Finchley.

I made the digital graphic in Thailand, and here I am in China writing it up! I'm still not happy with it, but it's in the ballpark for now.

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