Just before I went on my first journey to the Orient, my friend Professor Chellew, who was a professor of psychology at the University of London, warned me that there were gurus who used hypnotism. He instructed me how to defend myself against such a man. "If a guru," he said, "is looking straight into your eyes, then do not return the gaze fully but rather only into his left eye. This is because the positive currents which he is trying to direct towards you flow through his right eye. His left eye is passive. Or, instead of looking in the guru's eye, stare over the shoulders and thus avoid direct confrontation. Or, if a direct return gaze cannot be avoided, then use it for only a couple of seconds and turn away again: but the gaze should really be a mere pretense, for it should be directed at nothing in particular. It should be blank, expressionless, as if looking far into space. In this way you protect yourself and yet do not disturb the other person. If, however, the guru is one who can be fully trusted, who is a pure channel for the divine power, well then you may gaze at his right eye and so receive the inspiration he may be giving you."
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 13 : The Occult > # 99
