You are not spiritually blind. You have just forgotten how to control your spiritual Sense-of-Sight, or your image-generating faculty. It is very easy to relearn how to control this, but you will probably have to practice at it for a while. Consider for a moment what one must do to be able to play the piano, and I mean concert-quality music. One must play the scales a good deal in order to develop the finger dexterity, strength, and control. If one takes the time and has the discipline to learn to play the piano very well, the physical world has great rewards to offer. If one should put a similar effort into developing dexterity, strength, and control of one’s spiritual Sense-of-Sight, there are incredible experiences and rewards waiting. Your inner vision functions throughout the entire Cosmos. Yes, it is capable of retrieving visual information from any place you can think to send it. Of course, there is the small matter of having enough energy to do that, but your Sense-of-Sight is capable when you can foot the bill. This is just like having a driver’s license and a good car that can take you from San Francisco to Bangor, Maine. But you still have to pay for the gas, oil, and tires to actually make the trip. In this book I will give you only what compares to the beginning exercises on a piano. I personally have taught people how to do this to a much greater degree. Some have problems with it, and experience has taught us how to solve those problems. If you wish to go further with the development of your Sense-of-Sight, we would be happy to consider you as a student. In the beginning, for most people, it isn’t so much what they need to do, it is more often what they need to, stop doing.

          1. Stop telling yourself that your imagination is showing your mind illusions. Your imagination is your image-generating faculty. An illusion in inner vision is simply an inner experience you do not understand.

          2. Stop facing the world with your paradigms. All that you know is from the past. Focusing on your past forces you to walk backward into your future.

          3. Stop the tension in your life. Relax. Relax. Relax. If you don’t like the way your life is going, tell life how you want it to be. Tension squeezes the energy out of your life force. Tension squeezes spiritual vision and it doesn’t work. Relax enough and it does work. Depending on how much tension you have in your life, RELAX may well be the most important word in this whole book. Tension will destroy your spiritual perception and your physical life.

          4. Stop your mental negativity. A lot of the influence on your astral and spirit vision is provided by your mood of mind. Food becomes a factor here, as it can have a profound effect on your spirit vision and your mental moods. My first teacher would not even talk to people who drank coffee. At the time I thought him considerably eccentric. How could a mere chemical affect one’s spirit? But in time I have found many other foods and drinks that have a disastrous effect on inner vision and mental moods. For a long time, I kept a diary of everything I ate every day and also of how good my meditations were. The resultant observations were amazing and paying attention to diet improved my health, but it also greatly improved my meditations and the consistency of good ones (good meditations being defined as ones in which everything I knew how to do at that time worked very well and I came out feeling very uplifted, very high inside, and very much alive).

          5. Stop giving your conscious energy away. To have perception in the inner realms of life you must first become a container of that energy which powers spiritual perception. Yes, it is easy to see into the nearby spirit realms and very easy to look into the negative levels of life. However, to look into the higher spiritual realms takes conscious energy and the ability to accumulate and focus that energy. This is not easy, but greatly rewarding.

          6. Stop having negative opinions about yourself. Creation considers you to be an excellent judge of character and will accept without question your opinions about yourself. Expect life to treat you the way you want to be treated. Understand that inflated egos are as negative as self-doubt. But self-respect is a healthy state of mind and spirit.

          Your own attitude has a great deal to do with what you are able and/or allowed to see in the inner realms. The inner realms are really just a door into the universe you live in. This can be a universe of illusions or your access to the real universe. Your illusions can take you in many directions, but when all is said and done there is a real Road to Life …