Kind Devi, enter etheric presence pervading far above and below your form.
- Prerequisite: best entered through the first technique. When the feather-touch brings weightlessness — a felt sense (eyes closed) that the body has floated up — that is the moment. The felt weightlessness is the whole point; literal levitation is not the goal (open your eyes and you are simply sitting). It can be done alone, but without the lightness the etheric form is very hard to perceive.
- The instruction: in that weightless state, trace the outline of your body inwardly with closed eyes — toes, legs, torso, the whole seated form. Then notice what appears just outside it: a hazy bluish light, loose around the body like a robe. Once seen inwardly, enter a completely dark room and open your eyes — you will see it exactly around your physical body.
- What the blue light is: the etheric body — the second of seven bodies, closest to the physical, your electric body, your prana. Blue sky and blue light are soothing because they match the color of this body. (Two lovers in extended lovemaking beyond forty minutes without ejaculation develop a visible blue aura around both bodies; it has been photographed.)
- How to grow it: do nothing — simply look at the blue form. The moment you act, energy is withdrawn from the etheric into action; the moment you do nothing, all energy flows back into it and it expands. This is the principle of non-doing (Lao Tzu’s ‘not doing anything at all, and no one is stronger than me’; Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree). The more it grows the more silent you become, and the more silent, the more it grows.
- When it expands: thinking stops (the etheric body requires no thought). You feel festive, overflowing — like a tree that first feeds roots, then trunk, then branches, and only when fully satisfied suddenly blooms. Flowers are the surplus; the etheric overflow is that surplus.
- What the etheric is for: a depressed person’s etheric contracts, recedes into the body, and feeds on others’ energy (you feel drained near them); an overflowing person’s etheric floods those nearby (you feel fed). This is the real mechanism of ‘presence’ — and the reason to learn to feed this energy and not waste it, the secret key the technique opens.