Once you've succeeded in doing this exercise in these three ways you will have created three different experiences. You will have perceived three situations in three new ways. What are the differences between these situations, how has this exercise changed them?
Your answer will have subtle elements. They will be hard to describe. Perhaps you'll notice that you cannot describe these results to the people who normally surround you. If so, that is good because now you see how much what you share in perceiving limits what you perceive.
Amplification is a processes of resonance. An effect becomes greater when you resonate with it. If you don't resonate you are unmoved, and if you are unmoved the effect passes through you. Because you can tune your attention, you can tune your resonance and, by this means, your awareness.
The Tuning-Outward Exercise
I'd like to teach you to develop a resonance with the earth, and you'll find this isn't hard to do. Among the earth's many vibrations one is called the Schumann Resonance, and it's the speed at which electricity in the atmosphere bounces around the globe. It's a rather slow vibration, about 8 cycles per second. This is the speed at which you can count to eight if you count out loud fast. Try it: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8!
Do you remember watching lightning on a dark night, and do you remember how it flashes? Remember the battering sound as the thunder rolls in? The time between the flashes of a single lightning bolt is the same as the Schumann resonance. In fact, it is the Schumann resonance! It is the earth raising it's head and looking at you.
When you next go outdoors, especially when you find yourself in front of a wide landscape, I'd like you to do something different. Instead of lazily glancing into the distance, or picking a few objects to look at, I'd like you to dart your eyes all around to take eight quick snap shots of the vista before you: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8!
Pause and reflect on how you have seen the landscape differently. Something is different: instead of looking at the earth, you have engage with it. You have connected with its frequency.
The frequency with which you attend to things will amplify the frequency in the things you're attending to. Imagine that there is something going on around you at this frequency, something and you've never noticed it before. It may be something seen, heard, or felt.
The result of your interaction will be subtle. It may change the cadence of your speech, the tone of your gait, or the color of your mood. Engage the world mindfully, with focus, and without expectation. Give it some time. Be aware of any differences. What is not the same?
Subtle Perception
Subtle perception is the desire to see new things beyond the obvious. This novelty may be something more, as in filling in the blanks, or it may be something else, entirely new.
It is certain that if you take the time and effort, you will perceive more. That's how we're built, we take in a fixed amount of information no matter how much is given to us. Simply enlarge your focus and slow your clock and more of what is there will emerge. Even staring at a white wall reveals more information because our mind itself will fill in the space, if nothing else does.
Being aware of more can mean being more deeply aware, or being differently aware. It can mean something you might recognize but didn't expect, like seeing an outline. Or it can mean having feelings you cannot fathom, like being a spirit. It's not clear what will come of the effort, or when.
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