Closing the seven openings of the head with your hands, a space between your eyes becomes all inclusive.
- Mechanism: consciousness always flows out through the head’s openings; close all seven (eyes, ears, nose, mouth) at once and it cannot move — it pools at its source, concentrated at the point between the two physical eyes: the third eye.
- Breathing is conditioned to thinking (Pavlovian conditioning): stop breath and thought stops too. Closing all openings triggers this arrest across the whole associated chain simultaneously.
- Sudden, not practiced: do it unexpectedly, whenever you can — in bed, any free moment. If done as a daily routine it becomes mechanical and nothing happens. Like being thrown from a room unexpectedly versus a daily rehearsal.
- Practical safety: use ear plugs and eye mask if preferred, but use your hands at the nose/mouth — never fixed plugs there. When unconsciousness comes, hands go limp and breath returns automatically. Built-in safety; you cannot die this way.
- The critical moment: when suffocation arrives and you feel ‘now I will die’ — that is the exact right moment; it breaks the old associations. Persist. You are still conscious, therefore not yet dying. The inner force throws the openings open before true death. ‘At least up until now not a single person has died using this method.’
- The inner space once contacted is all-inclusive — the whole universe is felt inside (Swami Ramateertha: ‘The sun moves in me, the stars move in me’). The third eye is not bounded by the body; it is infinite space that has penetrated in. Once known: the deathless is touched, nothing can be taken from you.
- Physical eyes see matter and the finite; the third eye sees energy as such, the infinite, the spiritual — the Upanishads: ‘Knowing the one, one knows all.’
- When it opens, the natural cry is ‘I am God’ (Mansoor: ‘Ana’l Haq’) — and the realization is so certain that even facing death one will not recant; Mansoor laughed on the gallows. After his murder, Sufis taught: ‘whenever you come to the third eye, remain silent.’
- From Q&A: the third eye is only one device — what matters is centering itself, not which center. Once you are genuinely centered anywhere, you fall automatically to the navel, the basic existential center. So do not treat the third eye as special; any point of centering works.