13 * 12 * 3,5 mm
 Magic Indus Valley
Eye bead - 1500BC
You can see the same
bead on this page



13 * 12 * 4 mm
Etched eye Bead




15 * 7 * 3 mm
Ceramic Eye Beads
Early historic time
600 B.C. - 100 A.D.
These beads are very rare!

13 * 8 * 3 mm

11 * 8 * 4 mm
 

Magic Beads as thought power
In a way all beads are like amulets - if one thinks they are. The 'amuletic' power of beads can never be isolated from the particular belief system in which the owner of the bead orients himself.
 
In this way the world is constructed out of collective minds accepting the same story told reality. 
 
To see the world as a projection of thoughts is in fact very close to Indian religious philosophy. But where we in the west tend to describe all mind made realities as unreal and positivistic science as real, the ancient Indian philosophy is one step ahead in pointing out long before the quantum physics that the observer is actually creating the observed.
 
So when I in the beginning said that beads have power when one thinks them to have it, it is not at all a positivistic, sceptic statement. The ancient beads do have power - because they have been charged with this thought intention for countless generations.
 
Beads as amulets
All ancient beads from greater India are in this way true amulets. But the power of a bead increases with beauty and the degree of good artistic design. The very shape of the bead formed an intricate component of it's potency. Why? Simply because the extraordinary bead attracts more will power-attention than an insignificant bead.
 
Today the knowledge of the power of the Indus Valley beads has been lost. Only the mainly Tibetan dzi-beads are still recognized as powerful amulets. But the Indus beads are sleeping beauty's from a far older culture than the Tibetan. The Indus bead is like a dormant power plant. It just needs your recognition to wake up from millennia's of sleep.
 

In the Vedas we find no particular emphasis on stone beads as amulets. The amulets of the Vedic times have more resemblance to the amulets worn by Tantric Yogis. In these amulets we find the extensive use of materials from the animal and vegetable kingdoms plus the use of pearls known as mani, jewel. It is like S. B. Deo writes in his book, 'Indian Beads': It is surprising that so few should have been used which are not perishable. p.39 Even though Hindu Nationalist do not like to hear it, it seems that the importance and use of magic beads is older than the Vedas, reaching back to the pre-Vedic time of the Indus Culture.

Protecting Eyes against evil eyes
Evil eyes is an ancient metaphorical expression of negative thought-intention directed from one human to another.  Evil eyes can also be associated with the appearance of bad luck or unfortunate destiny.
 
The concept of evil eyes or protecting eyes is found in almost every ancient culture around the world. 
As long back as in the Indus Valley culture there is evidence of the importance of eye beads.
 
It seems like Eye-beads were used from the middle to the far East as a strategy for repelling the energies of the evil eye. Hence we find the ancient culture of eye-beads all the way from Egypt, where they were placed in royal tombs, to India and China where the personal possession of an eye bead acted as a shield to repel negative forces. 
  
The occult logic behind this use of eye beads can be illustrated in the common saying: an eye for an eye.
The striped formations or the eye design of the Dzi bead were made to ward of negative energies.
The good eyes on the bead acted as a metaphysical antibiotic defence. Even the design of the bead itself played a great role. The smooth roundness of a beautiful bead acted like a totem with the ability to ward off evil forces.
This last aspect reflecting the very design of beads actually includes all types of beads:
If a bead is beautifully designed it will in itself – even without eyes or magical stripes - act like a repellent against the mosquitoes of evil thoughts.  
 
Eye Beads in islam
In islamic cultures Eye Beads have and do still play an important role. For further information I recommend that you read Glass bead expert Torben Sodes article about Magic Glass Beads
 

Post Modern Bead Magic

Magic Buddhist beads as cultural ambassadors
Here you can see a wonderful Bhaisajyaguru eye bead from Afghanistan.


14 * 14 mm

In the section displaying etched beads most of the beads are of Buddhist origin with Buddhist symbols.
As mentioned before the Vedic Hinduism did not attach much importance to stone beads.
 
In prehistoric time stone beads were an essential part of the Indus Valley Culture
and in historic time the culture of stone beads more or less can be linked to the Buddhist culture.
  
In Tibetan Buddhism the use and understanding of magic beads plays a major role.
This stone bead culture with its symbolic axis around the magic eye
has a wonderfull artisitic peak expression in the Dzi-beads.
  
The artistic power and the mystic fascination of Dzi-beads have made them ambassadors
of Tibetan Buddhism all over the globe. In this way it seems that the Tibetan bead culture
and understanding has become a mainstream trend for Buddhists in the far east.
  
But the fascination of the Dzi-beads has spread to the west as well where you will
not be able see Sting performing a concert without his beloved 9 eyed Dzi-bead.
  
 The upper class of the western world  is 'converting' to Buddhism these years. Buddhism has in many ways
views that are far more compatible with a modern afluent way of living than Christianity can offer.
Holywood has always been in love with Tibet and the Dalai Lama. But this conversion is now further
amplified by the increasing interest for Meditation and mindfullness. Hinduism can not, with its caste system and
 Disney like Gods, offer much. Hoverever, Buddhism can with its emphasis of compassion and also logic
offer a narrative frame that with a little updating fits perfectly to this post modern world.


28 * 19 mm

Here is my favorite bead: An absolutely wonderful buddhist prayer
bead with a natural crystaline eye. This Eye Bead is one out of a million!

Post Modern Magic & poetic quantum physiscs
This magic eye bead has responded to my intentional and 'self created' power of belief
in such a way that in this moment I would not give it in exchange for even a nine eyed Zee-bead!
 
This is what I call Post Modern Magic. Post modern magic includes a conscious metalevel
where you are aware of the fact that it is your very belief that creates the magic.
It is like a situation where you are cured by placebo medicine even though you know it is placebo!
 
This understanding of Magic Realism is a product of a lifelong experience of a series of incidents where
my intentions have seemed to create situations that could not be explained by logic and statistic
coincidence alone. C.G.Jung termed this kind of phenomena with the word synchronocity.
 
With a little poetic help from the world of quantum physics I could say that it seems that
a focused human consciousnes is able to make small cracks in the space-time fabrics.
   
Of course you are not able to catch the moon because you wish so. But on a subtle level
there is still some kind of manipulation of time and space going on through a clear and directed thought
'awared' in a clear consciousnes. With these thoughts in mind I will return to the bead.
 
The real inside your Self
An ancient bead is able to respond like a microphone held close to a loudspeaker.
A feedback is created between your intentional and directed will power
and the bead, or should I say your knowledge of the bead as being a representative of
the ancient and the essential inside your self. A magic bead is in this way like a meditation device
helping you in the constant 'self remembrance' of your own true nature.
 
The bead should be felt on your skin. It should have direct contact with you as a living, breathing
and sweating bodily being. By this direct contact the bead's surface will be changed by you, while
your inner being will be changed by the bead.
 
Magic beads in a post modern context
This is for me the post modern way of using talismen or amulets.
The post modern bead amulet has become real in a new level of understanding and will
protect you from the unreality created as a byproduct of a complex cyber civilization!
    
 

Various Magic Eye Beads
  

In the ancient understanding of bead magic the eye bead has always had a special importance.

Eye Beads made of Glass

          9 * 2 mm       -     9* 7 * 2 mm    -      8 * 5 * 2 mm

These rare Eye Beads are from the early historic time -
Most probably from the Taxila period  300 BC- 100 AD

Wonderful Indus Valley Eye Beads

Magic eye bead is from the
Indus Valley Civilization 3000-1500BC
 

19 * 6 mm
Magic eye bead is from the
Indus Valley Civilization 3000-1500BC

24 * 10 mm
Translucent eye bead
Indus Valley civilization 3000-1500BC

 

This beautiful translucent natural eye bead is from the
Indus Valley Civilization

25 * 10 mm
A mysterious colored agate Eye Bead.
 

40 * 14 * 11 mm
This large natural eye bead is made of jasper is from the
Indus Valley Civilization

Bead with a crystal eye

In this old bead the eye is made of crystal
Period: Around 1000 A.D.

 

Sulemani Eye Beads

These little but perfect Sulemani agate eye bead is dating back to the Mauria period 300 BC - 100 AD.
The backside of this bead is equally beautiful.
8 * 5 mm

Front 7 * 5 mm

 Back

This small bead has an eye on the front and back side. It is made out of the real Sulemani agate: Solomons agate


Solomons agate Eye Bead





      
40 * 25 * 21 mm
An abolutely unique and very strange Eye Bead in terra cotta.
Origin : Greater India
Amadalpur - Haryana