![]() ![]() The world seems to brighten, becoming more radiant, beautiful, sacred and miraculous. As we cleanse the “doors of perception,” we begin to “see the light” with an awakening consciousness housed in the right brain.Īt first, divine light shines through our consciousness, for we are opening an internal aperture to the other side, which in turn affects our experience of reality. We know we are preparing to leave and the energies of ambition and identity steadily lose their allure. The mirror also symbolizes the narcissism of constantly focusing on self-reflections.Īs we grow older, we gradually withdraw interest from the obsessive left-brain world of goals, achievements and position. A left-brain construction, it attracts all the divine light for decades. I’ve called this projection the World of Man. In other words, what we actually “see” is a mentally constructed projection of the world consisting of countless layers of thought, belief, labels, fantasy and identity. Most of our lives we only see one side of reality while the other side remains dark (i.e., unconscious) from the ego’s perspective. I believe the two-way mirror is an apt analogy for the spiritual transition of age. Recently I’ve been sensing that this fascinating scenario might serve as a metaphor for aging. Suddenly you could see the observers on the other side! If the therapy room was then darkened, the mirror effect reversed and only the observers would be visible. I was always struck by what happened when someone turned the lights on in the dark side after a session. ![]() After the session, teacher and students would discuss how things went. In my clinical training, therapists and their clients sat in the lit side observed by faculty and other students from the unseen dark side. What you see through a two-way mirror depends on which side is dark and which side is lit. You’ve probably seen similar arrangements on television crime shows where those behind a mirror watch a suspect’s interview. Therapy rooms in our training clinic had been constructed with see-through mirrors. The Two-Way Mirror was part of my early clinical psychology training in graduate school. ![]()
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