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Lead Story

In the Eye of Ra – Floater Structures in the Visual Arts of Ancient Egypt

In Western culture, the phenomenon of vitreous floaters (or muscae volitantes) is primarily understood in line with modern ophthalmology as “vitreous opacities”. The review of visual arts from former and non-Western cultures representing mythical and spiritual ideas, however, discloses abstract symbols that resemble the typical structures of eye floaters. This suggests that floaters have been widely interpreted as a mythical or spiritual phenomenon; and that there might be a perceptual dimension of floaters that modern ophthalmology fails to see. This article provides a trip to the visual worlds of Pharaonic Egypt and suggests that vitreous floaters have found their way into the art and imagination of this ancient civilization.

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Nestor's Knowledge on Eye Floaters

The path in the basic structure

Eye floaters and their meaning were interpreted differently depending on the time, culture and personality of the observer. We learn a spiritually meaningful perspective about floaters from Nestor, the seer, with whom I have studied and whose teachings I recorded in the book „Mouches volantes – Eye Floaters as Shining Structure of Consciousness“. In this category, a particular statement from the book on floaters shall be presented and explained.

From: Mouches Volantes – Eye Floaters. The Shining Structure of Consciousness, p. 219. (source)

The idea of the “path in the basic structure” is a central element in the teaching of Nestor. The seers use it to address the long-term changes that we possibly find in our floaters.

According to this teaching, we are all oriented towards a particular sphere which we don’t recognize from the beginning. This sphere, also called the “source”, is thought to contain pure consciousness and to be the passage into another state of being. The energetic consequences of our actions decide whether we approach this sphere or dissociate from it: Binding or taking energy from the picture keeps us at a distance to our source sphere; releasing pure ecstatic energy into the picture brings us closer. Nestor asserts that the effects may be directly seen: a forward movement is realized when the dots and strings become bigger or “get closer”.

Nestor’s teaching compares to the reports of people with near death experiences. These often include a movement toward a bright shining sphere before experiencing more complex and figurative scenes. In my opinion, these “extreme situations” confirm the knowledge of the seers: the visually perceptible forward movements of the consciousness are experienced in ecstatic situations, i.e. states of consciousness which include – like in dying – the release of a lot of psychophysiological energy directly and freely from the body. If consciousness can be maintained in that situation, it is not a process of “dying”, but “crossing over”. As anticipated by the seers, this crossing over is the culmination of the “path in the basic structure”.

Literature:

- Tausin, Floco: Mouches Volantes – Eye Floaters. The Shining Structure of Consciousness, Bern 2009, (ISBN: 978-3033003378).

 

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