The All-Seeing Eye

It is only a short walk off the top of Glencairn express way to get to one of the most magical places of the Cape Peninsula: The All-Seeing Eye .

On the day of the summer solstice the sun shines directly through the opening in this 50ft crystalline rock pyramid. For the ancient people this must have been an expression for a special point when the sun is seeing the world into being.

My son lives in South America. Some time ago he told me about the Aymara an indigenous people in the Andes. They have a special way of expressing time in their language and thinking. 

For things and events in the past they would point to the front and the future lies behind their backs. This is completely opposite to our western thinking.

Their way of seeing the world puzzled me for months. 

Actually, it seems to be more accurate. 

All what we see with our eyes already lies in the past. 

Everything our eyes observe has already happened and if it is only the milliseconds ago, our mind needs to process the sensations captured on our retina. 

The future is unseen and therefore lies behind our backs.

Right in the middle, at the turning point between future and past are we as humans and is the whole of consciousness. Modern physics tell us, everything comes into being through observation.

The Aymara know that this observation does not happen through our eyes. 

Eyes are sensors and the mind interprets signals from the past.

Real observation, inspiration, seeing as creative process, seeing as the universe making love and orgasmic birthing new life and a new reality, happens somewhere else.

The pyramid rock looks like a symbol for the third eye. 

And this third eye sees everything into being. 

It is the collective seeing of consciousness which creates everything.

The ancient people experienced this through the sun. And in trance and visions they were embedded in this process. Earth, human body and spirit are all parts of one whole being.

The sun shines through the All-seeing Eye and births all of existence. 

Opposite the All-seeing Eye, on the other side of the valley the rocks form the image of a yoni.

 Through this gateway the world wells out into existence like we came into being through the yoni of our mother. 

We can practice to see with our third eye and become conscious of our ongoing participation in creation.