The blue Pearl

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The Blue Pearl

a.k.a.

Blue Dot, Blue Sphere, Blue Disk, Blue Angel, Blue Flash, Blue Trails

… the

Blue Pearl [is] the subtlest covering of the individual soul....

When

we see this tiny blue light in meditation,

we should understand that we are seeing the form of the inner Self.

To experience this is the goal of human life.

[The

Blue Pearl] is tiny, but it contains all the different planes of

existence.

- Swami Muktananda (1) Several

years ago in a cosmology class we were discussing the subject of lights

in the head. Seeing light in the head

is not new to meditators or people who are clairvoyant. People report

seeing white lights and some report seeing blue lights. I'm in

the group that sees the blue lights!

Once

I could name the experience of seeing the blue light, I started to notice

when it came. It would come of its own accord. One doesn't invoke it.

The blue sphere appears both in my head and with my eyes open.

Sometimes

it will come when I'm meditating or working in a group situation

like a healing gathering. Other times it will flash in my consciousness

or field of vision for no seemingly

apparent reason. One

never knows when the Blue Dot will come or whether it will appear

to be inside

or outside the head.

Now that

I've been working with it for some

cycles, I see the Blue Dot as an affirmation of a truth and that something

spiritually significant has happened, or that I'm on target with

my thinking.

A

few times when the Blue Dot has come up in conversation, I've

discovered that other people also

see it. Once when I was meditating about a person's new

business enterprise, the Blue Dot flashed. I thought it was a wonderful

sign that she was blessed in her venture.

When I told her about my experience, I learned that she too sees

the blue sphere and has come to call

it the Blue Angel.

The first

place I discovered any in-depth discussion of the Blue Pearl is in

the Siddha Yoga literature. Swami

Muktananda (1908–1982), the great Indian saint

who introduced Siddha Yoga practices and meditation techniques to

the United Sates, gives a detailed description of the significance

and of his experiences of the Blue Pearl. At one point he described

how it expanded in front of him, engulfed him and carried him to other

worlds. He was very clear that it was a good thing and a sign of awakened

Kundalini. Muktananda referred to

the Blue Pearl as a physical manifestation of the soul. He said that

seeing it in meditation is like seeing the soul.

"Death"

is simply the name we give to the

departure of the Blue Pearl from

the body. (2) In his book Does

Death Really Exist? Muktananda says,

The

blue dot, which we call the Blue Pearl, dwells in the sahasrara, the

spiritual center in the crown of the head. It is the body of

the Self. All consciousness is contained in it. All of the

dynamism of

the breathing

process comes from the Blue Pearl. When that light enters the

body, the rhythm of breathing begins. When it departs from the

body, consciousness departs

from the bloodstream, the nerves and the lungs, leaving everything

limp and lifeless. "Death" is simply the name we give to the departure

of the Blue Pearl from the body. (2)

The book

goes on to say that one can see the Blue Dot leave the body at death,

and where it exits, according to scriptures, indicates the state

of the person's experience. If the soul leaves through the eyes, one

has been very virtuous.

The

Tibetan master Djwhal

Khul,

speaking through Alice

A. 's volumes on the

ageless wisdom teachings, also makes reference to the "Blue Disk" in four

specific places — each

time in the context of a meditation visualization exercise.

Within the

darkness of the soul, prisoned within the form, a point of light

is seen. Then there arises, all around that point, a field of deepest

blue and this becomes irradiated by the soul, the inner sun, shining

within a brilliant field of blue. The points of light become the

many

lines or rays of light; these lines then merge and blend until

the lighted Way appears. One is the light, the light upon the Way.

One

is the Way and always walks thereon. (3)

D.K. tells

us about the point of dark blue, or a small indigo

disk, which appears: "This is, in reality, the exit in the head

through which the soul passes out of the world of phenomenal existence,

and it

is the

symbol of the path or the door into the kingdom of God." (4)

Celebrated

thirteenth century Indian Mystic-Poet-Yogi Jnaneshwar Maharaj (1271–1293) says

the Blue Color is a great and holy pilgrimage center. "This

radiant and scintillating and sublime Blue Color can be seen directly

in meditation. If we want to

see such a great and wonderful thing, our way of life and our habits

must be the purest and the most holy. Then only we become worthy of

it. Our association, our words, and our thoughts should be full of

God. He who has seen the Blue Color is the most blessed of all human

beings."

Carl Sagan refers

to the earth as the Pale Blue Dot in his book of the same name. From

space, astronauts are awed by the sight of the earth,

a blue pearl hovering against the blackness of the universe.

When you

look at the Earth from space it looks like a beautiful blue dot, which

is rather interesting if you consider the correlation of the Blue Pearl

representing the Self and the Earth also.

Since

we put up the Blue Pearl pages in March 2004, we've received

lots of emails from people all over the world who have seen and

experienced

some form of lights around them. Whether

they are in your head or seen floating above or around you, or

come at a significant time in your experience,

what we've learned is that seeing these lights is a phenomenon

shared by many. As a result of these emails, we've

been inspired to further investigate the Blue Dot. It's

amazing how influential blue is in our world!

- Blue

Dottie

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If

you have experiences you'd like to share with SouledOut.org

about lights in your head, we welcome hearing from you! Please email

us, and we'd also like to know where you're from.

(1)

Does Death Really Exist?, Swami Muktananda, p. 17

© SYDA Foundation,

South Fallsburg, NY

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(2) Does

Death Really Exist?, Swami Muktananda, p. 6

© SYDA Foundation,

South Fallsburg, NY

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in the New Age, Vol.

I, Alice

, p.

462

© Lucis Publishing

Co., 120 Wall St., 24th Floor, New York, NY 10005

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place in text] (4) Discipleship

in the New Age, Vol. II, Alice A. , p. 52

© Lucis Publishing

Co., 120 Wall St., 24th Floor, New York, NY 10005

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Earth graphic

with rainbow adapted from

The

Earth Rainbow Network website