Song of Solomon 6:5 Meaning Turn Away Your Eyes From Me

The eyes that overcome are inner sight so intense the higher awareness must ask it to soften, a gaze whose power floods the whole self. This is attention turned wholly inward, so concentrated it overwhelms. The hair likened to a flock of goats coming down from Gilead is the fine radiant energy that streams from the head, the strands of thought and force flowing in ordered descent like a herd moving down a hillside. Gilead means a heap of witness, the elevated place of testimony, so the flowing hair pours from the high ground of the awakened mind. Hair rooted in the crown stands for the subtle currents rising from and returning to the head, and here they descend in living order. When inner sight burns at full strength, the energies of the upper self move down through a person like a flock returning from the height.

Eyes: concentrated inner sight, attention turned so fully inward that its power overwhelms the whole self. Hair: the subtle radiant currents flowing from the crown, the fine strands of thought and life-force streaming down through a person. Gilead: the elevated high ground of the awakened mind, the heap of witness from which the inner energies pour down.

What overwhelms a person is rarely beauty; it is being the only thing in someone's field of vision.

Being looked at changes a person's chemistry before it changes his thinking. Regard lands in the nervous system, shifts the state on contact, and a shifted state changes what a man is capable of saying next, which is why one overcome this way praises in images that would embarrass him in any other condition.

Attention with nothing else in it is the scarce commodity, since most of it is split before it ever leaves the person giving it. Couples run on that split for years, handing each other leftovers in the same room. What that costs is not conflict but a slow ordinary numbness, and neither of them can name the week it set in.