When I was four years old, I got sick.
Fast forward 24 years, now.... Let me take you back to 1972. I’m sitting in an overstuffed chair in a small 3rd floor apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. I’m sketching a still life scene onto a pad of paper on my lap. I’m squinting and focusing very hard to get the lines precisely beautiful for my composition. I’m concentrating very hard.
All of a sudden without warning I‘m yanked out of my body into a vortex of shimmering white light and sent spinning through the universe faster then the speed of light. Colors coming at me. Patterns coming at me. I am moving through space, penetrating clouds, particles, matter,and dust at a velocity unimaginable. I‘m watching planets birth and die, galaxies spin, and hearing beautiful unearthly music (like choirs of angels) singing in the background. I never knew such beauty, speed and awareness existed.
I have a distinct etheric sensation of vastness.
I have no Idea how long this experience is lasting, maybe 2 minutes, 2 hours, 2 days. I don’t know. I am just in a WOW place.
Next thing I know, I‘m back in my body with a physical thud. THUD! But I’m not the same being. My senses no longer individuate. I am one sensation, unified and dramatically enhanced; I can see with my heart, hear with my body and feel with my mind!
I can see energy itself. I can see the individual vibrations of reds, greens, yellows, grey, all pulsating at different speeds emanating from my curtains, carpet and furniture, while softly blending into my dreamlike environment, as a projection of me being it all. A moment later I hear a conversation 30 yards away on the street outside my apartment building, every word perfectly clear. I am surrounded by a visceral silence, and I immediately sense a vibration at the base of my spinal cord. It moves vertically up my backbone, touching and lighting up locations on my nervous system. As it rises, and moves into and through my amygdala, it jumps across my corpus callosum. It hurdles through my frontal lobe, and appears as a transparent soap bubble in front of my forehead, about 3 inches beyond my face, and bursts into mental words and images. I realize this is conscious thought.
I could go on, but you get the picture ....
The Japanese mystics call this type of experience a “Kensho“ or a “öSatori“. In English they call it a sudden Enlightenment. The consciousness of eternity and the awareness of all as God is now visceral in me.
From this point on, all perception changes. It is different, fuller, uninterrupted, unconnected to body, but the same physicality is still there, yet no longer solid. Less dense, pure vibration. EVERYTHING is recognized as “I“ and the “I“ is simultaneously the universe. And the universe is the expression of intelligent matter, and particles of Love in flow..
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