how closing eyes in meditation enables reversal of consciousness rays?
The Dialectic of Consciousness: The Return to the Source In the ceaseless movement of thought and existence, the trajectory of consciousness reveals itself as a dialectic—one that oscillates between the outward and the inward, between dispersion and unity, between the finite and the absolute. The very nature of our experience is predicated upon the movement of consciousness, whose rays extend outward into the manifold of sensory existence. Yet, in this dispersion, consciousness estranges itself from its essence, casting itself into the realm of differentiation and alienation. It is here, in the outward gaze, that suffering arises. To perceive is to externalize; to externalize is to fragment. When the rays of our consciousness are cast into the world, they become diffused, scattered across the multiplicity of objects, desires, and distractions that constitute the empirical world. The subject, in this moment, experiences a loss—not merely of itself, but of the unifying principle that gro...