Floco Tausin tells the story about his time of learning with spiritual teacher and seer Nestor, taking place in the hilly region of Emmental, Switzerland. The mystic teachings focus on the widely known but underestimated dots and strands floating in our field of vision, known as eye floaters or mouches volantes. Whereas in ophthalmology, floaters are considered a harmless vitreous opacity, the author gradually learns to see them and reveals the first emergence of the shining structure formed by our consciousness. »Mouches Volantes« explores the topic of eye floaters in a much wider sense than the usual medical explanations. It merges scientific research, esoteric philosophy and practical consciousness development, and observes the spiritual meaning and everyday life implications of these dots and strands. Floco Tausin is a Graduate of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bern, Switzerland. In theory and practice he is engaged in the research of visual phenomena in connection with altered states of consciousness and the development of consciousness.
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Mouches Volantes is the story of the metaphysical journey of the author. The path starts out with the author seeking out an antique secretaire. His intention is to purchase the item, refurbish it, and then sell it for a good profit. The owner of the piece is a strange man named Nestor who eventually agrees to sell the secretaire but only if the author does all of the restoration work at this man's house.
At the time, the author thinks this request odd but is willing to go to a little trouble to get this fine antique. However, it doesn't take long before he realizes that something very strange is happening. The work is so physically draining and painful that tasks that should take a few short hours stretches into weeks and months. The author soon learns that this is a very special item which requires the perfect restoration and a completely different view of the world.
Mouches Volantes is a fascinating journey. The title refers to what optometrists call eye floaters, little structures seen when in bright light. In scientific terms these images are harmless and tend to become more common as we age. In this book, eye floaters are extremely significant as they are a call to a different type of consciousness. In essence, they show the potential to take oneself out of the small everyday world to gain an entirely different perspective.
At the time, the author thinks this request odd but is willing to go to a little trouble to get this fine antique. However, it doesn't take long before he realizes that something very strange is happening. The work is so physically draining and painful that tasks that should take a few short hours stretches into weeks and months. The author soon learns that this is a very special item which requires the perfect restoration and a completely different view of the world.
Mouches Volantes is a fascinating journey. The title refers to what optometrists call eye floaters, little structures seen when in bright light. In scientific terms these images are harmless and tend to become more common as we age. In this book, eye floaters are extremely significant as they are a call to a different type of consciousness. In essence, they show the potential to take oneself out of the small everyday world to gain an entirely different perspective.
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Of the genre of Carlos Castaneda
21 May 2009
By Toni Delgado
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"Mouches Volantes by Floco Tausin is a rigorous account of one young man's journey into himself and the fabulous opportunity we all have to become our seed of greatness. His spirit leads him to a community in the beauty of the Emmental where a gifted seer becomes his patient and loving guide. Floco as a reluctant student, opens to what destiny has in store for him. This a Carlos Castaneda tale of wonder and luminosity.
Reading this material will work on and uplift your consciousness. Expanding our perceptions and awareness thru consciousness is all that Humanity has to look forward to--it is the ONLY frontier for us."
Reading this material will work on and uplift your consciousness. Expanding our perceptions and awareness thru consciousness is all that Humanity has to look forward to--it is the ONLY frontier for us."
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Eye Floaters are an invaluable tool for achieving the present awareness or expanding awareness
2 Mar 2012
By The Passionate Reader
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I used to see the floaters since my young age, I used to play with the dots and strands that we see floating in front of our eyes. That is a inwardly-oriented practice to increase self-awareness. This inner practice is an invaluable tool for achieving the present awareness or expanding awareness. Now with a better understanding of them I highly recommend this book to seekers of the truth about crystal floaters.
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Original, Challenging, Memorable
9 Nov 2009
By Jerry Katz
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This is a memorable novel full of spiritual teachings touching many levels of understanding. It is about a spiritual journey that is intimately linked to the restoration of a secretaire, or writing table. As restoration is tedious and slow, so is the reading of this novel. But in a good way. It never gets dense, longish, or self-indulgent. The longer the book goes, the more interesting it gets, which is the same with restoration: as you get near the final stages and everything starts to come together, the level of excitement, revelation, and involvement increases. I was sorry to see this book, this wonderland, come to an end.
The secretaire, the physical world, the dots and strands (floaters) before the eyes, the people on the left side of the Emme River in Switzerland, come together in a world that is both complex and clear as water, making for a delightful read.
The characters created by Tausin cut through you to the bone, but you'll fall to your knees and love them, their abodes, their habits, their tricky and unfailing wisdom and practices. In the following scene the author, who is the main character, is suprisingly visited by an old woman who sees the truth about people and speaks it. Also appearing is Nestor, the author/seeker's guru and the owner of the secretaire.
"You've startled me," I told her.
"That's quite right," I heard a voice from the hallway. It was Nestor who entered the living room. "In moments of fright, the intensity increases. Those are precisely the moments in which people learn the most."
"The way it looks, the boy seems to believe he can do without an increased energy flow - probably because he thinks he's Mr. Know-It-All," she added with a cynical tone of voice.
"That'll make him turn old and senile in no time." Then she looked at me with an expression of distrust. "What's he doing here at the young lady's place anyway, hey?"
I seized the chance to parry her sneering remarks: I was here to become even wiser, I explained. Iris, I told her, informed me about the erotic unification.
"Uh, the erotic unification," she giggled. "Yes, yes, it's a hell of a difference whether the dickie is attached to the boy, or the boy attached to the dickie." Nestor and the danseuse laughed loudly.
The left side of the Emme is in my bones. I can smell the place and feel the impersonal chill of what is both an amusement park and a land of higher learning.
Elsewhere Nestor inquires of the seeker, "Are you searching for justifications to explain away your idleness and phegm? Crossing the bridge is not a question of character, let alone fate. It is a decision. It is a decision that every person walking the path in the basic structure has to make. It is the point when a human being has to decide whether he or she wants to remain a human being that wants to continue to experience the small joys and woes of this world, or if he or she wants to fly over into the left side so as to outgrow themselves in an ecstatic way, and to see the world with the eyes of a seer from then on."
Read Mouches Volantes and enter a world of challenging, original spirituality and memorable, uncompromising characters.
The secretaire, the physical world, the dots and strands (floaters) before the eyes, the people on the left side of the Emme River in Switzerland, come together in a world that is both complex and clear as water, making for a delightful read.
The characters created by Tausin cut through you to the bone, but you'll fall to your knees and love them, their abodes, their habits, their tricky and unfailing wisdom and practices. In the following scene the author, who is the main character, is suprisingly visited by an old woman who sees the truth about people and speaks it. Also appearing is Nestor, the author/seeker's guru and the owner of the secretaire.
"You've startled me," I told her.
"That's quite right," I heard a voice from the hallway. It was Nestor who entered the living room. "In moments of fright, the intensity increases. Those are precisely the moments in which people learn the most."
"The way it looks, the boy seems to believe he can do without an increased energy flow - probably because he thinks he's Mr. Know-It-All," she added with a cynical tone of voice.
"That'll make him turn old and senile in no time." Then she looked at me with an expression of distrust. "What's he doing here at the young lady's place anyway, hey?"
I seized the chance to parry her sneering remarks: I was here to become even wiser, I explained. Iris, I told her, informed me about the erotic unification.
"Uh, the erotic unification," she giggled. "Yes, yes, it's a hell of a difference whether the dickie is attached to the boy, or the boy attached to the dickie." Nestor and the danseuse laughed loudly.
The left side of the Emme is in my bones. I can smell the place and feel the impersonal chill of what is both an amusement park and a land of higher learning.
Elsewhere Nestor inquires of the seeker, "Are you searching for justifications to explain away your idleness and phegm? Crossing the bridge is not a question of character, let alone fate. It is a decision. It is a decision that every person walking the path in the basic structure has to make. It is the point when a human being has to decide whether he or she wants to remain a human being that wants to continue to experience the small joys and woes of this world, or if he or she wants to fly over into the left side so as to outgrow themselves in an ecstatic way, and to see the world with the eyes of a seer from then on."
Read Mouches Volantes and enter a world of challenging, original spirituality and memorable, uncompromising characters.
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