This event happened on my 1996 (or thereabouts) trip to Teotihuacán with don Miguel Ruiz and his group of apprentices.  It was either on the evening of the day where I saw the energy coming from the top of the pyramid of the Moon, or the following evening.  By this time I had come to understand that there is a huge amount of energy at that location and was prepared to experience it.

All of us had gathered after dinner for our evening meeting/class/discussion group with don Miguel. He had us all sit facing each other in a large circle on the floor of the meeting room.  There were about a hundred of us in a circle that was about sixty feet in diameter, sitting cross-legged; wondering what was going to happen next.

We were instructed to look into the eyes of the person sitting directly across from us in the circle.  As first there was a little confusion as we adjusted to find the person and make eye contact with them.  Finally we settled down and sat looking into each other’s eyes. At that point I noticed faint lines of energy extending across the room from person to person, like the spokes of a large wheel.  The spokes were not quite at eye level, but were slightly above my eyes, maybe at the top of my head.  It looked like I was sitting with my head very near a ceiling or maybe near the bottom side of a fog bank.

Then we were asked to shift our attention to the eyes of the person to the left of the person we were looking at, and then to the next and the next, going around and around the circle in a counter-clockwise direction.  As we did this the wheel of energy started spinning at the same speed that we were shifting our attention.  My attention became split at this point.  Part of me was watching the eyes of the person that I was watching, but I was also noticing that the “wheel” of energy was turning above us, following the shifting of our attention from person to person.  It looked like glowing lines from many lasers stretching across the space between us.  The lines were bright and shimmery, the color of  golden and silver threads.  They were now very bright and distinct, not the faint lines that I had first noticed.  It felt like sitting under low-hanging fog with light beams making the fog glow just above my eyes.

This went on for quite some time, until we were asked to stop and just reflect upon the experience.  I leaned over to a guy sitting next to me and whispered something like, “wasn’t that amazing, all of those spokes of energy following our eyes around the room.”  He just looked at me with a puzzled look and said that he hadn’t seen any lines of energy.  I was so sure that we had all seen the spinning wheel that I was kind of surprised at his response.  I thought; “What? You didn’t see that?  How could that be, it was so bright and obvious.” 

I didn’t try to talk to anyone else about the wheel of spinning lights, it seemed to be something private to me (or at least that individual wasn’t in on it).  I don’t suppose it matters if we can actually share these types of experiences.  The point is that we have them, and we know them to be “real” in some mysterious way.  I think we don’t actually get to share any of our experiences, we only think we do and have developed a language and a way of speaking that supports that belief.