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Mouches Volantes
“Having always mistaken the tiny dots and strands that float on the eye surface for dead orgone energy, we were surprised by what Floco Tausin has to say about the spiritual meaning and everyday life implications of what are otherwise known as vitreous opacities. Check out this unusual book – it’s a good one.”
-- The Spirit of Ma‘at (http://spiritofmaat.com), June 2009
“I had always found those sparkles to be fascinating, and I had once concluded that what I was seeing were either actual air molecules, or maybe even air atoms, banging into one another, or indeed, perhaps some kind of vision of an inner conscious state. … Thus, so many years later, I was quite surprised and intrigued to find another who seemed to confirm my own earlier guess, however more elaborately and substantively than my own minor conclusion may have been. …”
-- The Zoo Fence. A Commentary on The Spiritual Life (http://www.zoofence.com), June 2009.
“I first learned of the esoteric meditative significance of eye
floaters from my Tibetan tantric teacher in the 1970’s. He never
presented practices associated with them, however. My long-standing
curiosity about them made reading Floco Tausin’s book, Mouches
Volantes, a delight.
Mr. Tausin’s ‘novel’ is engaging,
humorous, and thought provoking as he details his character’s
journey to awakening following the path of meditating on Mouches
Volantes.”
-- Written by Jack Elias, author, Finding True Magic(http://www.findingtruemagic.com): Transpersonal Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy, on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com), August 2009
“I was sorry to see this book, this wonderland, come to an end. … Read Mouches Volantes and enter a world of challenging, original spirituality and memorable, uncompromising characters.”
-- Jerry Katz, Nonduality Blog, (http://nonduality.org), November 2009
“Breaking Through combined with The Lessons of Don Juan is an apt description, but then it’s much, much more. … The characters are endearing and get inside your soul. The vivid descriptions of place and setting will make you feel that you are actually there in the European mountains. This is a warm, compassionate and enlightened work that brought tears to my eyes in the final chapter.”
-- Brian Wallace, Author of „Labyrinth of Chaos“ and „Mind Transmissions, Inc.“, on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com), May 29 2009
Mouches Volantes
Eye Floaters as Shining Structure of Consciousness
by
Floco Tausin
Translated from German by Andreas Zantop
Smashwords Edition
Copyright Floco Tausin 2010
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
1
A Recalcitrant Secretaire
The Perfect Restoration
Dissolving the Small World in the Picture
Seeing the Picture as a Whole
The Attractive Force of Matter
Acquiring a Taste for It
The Afterimage of the Secretaire
2
Afterimages
Circular Figures with Double Membrane
Wanting to Know
The Inner Pressure and the Flow of Energy
Developing the Emotional Body
Dancing out of Mind
3
Mouches Volantes
The Emmental Cooking Pot
The Layers of Consciousness
Listening to the Rushing Sound
The Shining of the Basic Structure
4
The Right Side of Consciousness
The Bridge with the Double Arch
Iris the Seer
4
The Left Side of Consciousness
On the Bridge
The Navel
Notes
Preface
In ophthalmology, mouches volantes are free-floating particles in the eye’s vitreous which impair the eyesight of the person affected. The common English term for these is »eye floaters«.
Such opacities of the vitreous can have different causes; in most cases they are age-related rather than pathological. In bright light conditions, the shadows of these particles are projected onto the light-sensitive retina and thus become visible to the viewer as small rings, dots and strands which appear to »fly« through the visual field, following the eyes’ motions. Eye floaters are widespread, in itself harmless and not effectively treatable with our current medical means.
This explanation of mouches volantes makes sense to us, even if we are not ophthalmologists, because it refers to our everyday realm of experience accessible with our intellectual mind.
When the eye floaters attracted my attention for the first time, however, it happened in an environment that was quite different from that in which our everyday experiences take place. In this way, I was confronted with a totally different interpretation of these dots and strands floating before my eyes.
At this point in time, I had already learned the art of focused consciousness development from a person who lives in the remote solitude of the Emmental region in Switzerland. This man who calls himself Nestor, as well as my experiences in the vicinity of the headwaters of the Emme River, triggered a development within me which caused me to radically change my life habits and views of the world. In the course of this alternative way of living, my visual perception eventually changed as well: I began to see, and get to know, exactly these dots and strands. Ever since, the eye floaters are my object of study and concentration.
In a world dominated by materialism and rationality it is totally understandable that this phenomenon is interpreted as »particles in the eye«. Nestor counters these paradigms with his own uncommon experiences – experiences resulting from seeing the mouches volantes. Seeing in this case does not mean the ordinary sensual perception but an immediate realization beyond all rational thought, brought about by ecstasy techniques and resulting in an insight into a deep consciousness of the origin of what we call, and take for granted as, »our world«. In this sense, the act of seeing is directly related to the mouches volantes.
In this environment I tried to figure out whether there is more to the phenomenon of mouches volantes then just »particles in the eye« – in other words, whether it is possible to prove the main assertions in the teachings of the seer Nestor to be true: namely, that the eye floaters are the initial parts of a shining basic structure formed by our consciousness which organizes our everyday perception of objects in our field of vision, making them appear sensible; and that the mystical entering into one sphere of this structure will enable us human beings to maintain our consciousness beyond the point of physical death.
The discrepancy between »particles in the eye« and »shining structure of consciousness« is considerable so that both explanations can exist side by side, at best, in our rational thinking but not in our feeling and acting. This is important because the act of seeing, which is supposed to bring about insights into the phenomenon of mouches volantes, is not just an intellectual exercise; rather, it requires an appropriate way of living. This novel is based on a true story and will give insights into the worldview and practice of that mystical way of living in which the notion of »particles in the eye« is, at best, a distraction from seeing, from directly seeing the shining structure of consciousness.