Dhal-Sim

Thanks guys. I've managed to sort it, it would seem!

Hi all, I've made what I consider to be great progress over the years in my meditation/no self practice. I've had great self actualization success through it, and some pretty interesting spiritual experiences during meditation. However.......... When I go to meditate now, my mind likes to bring up nails scratching a blackboard. This is a recent thing that has come up, and I can only think its a defense mechanism of my ego to distract it from getting dissolved again. Has/dose anyone else experience this? Have any advice? Thanks.

Thanks for the replies. Ill look up Kensho. its funny when you start getting in to all of this stuff and you think it's pretty interesting, pretty cool and you think - well this is pretty good stuff for helping my psychology and state of mind but all the other crazy stuff they talk about probably isn't legit..... Then you discover and experience first hand, that it is.

Hi everyone, To preface this post, I've been doing meditation for quite a few years now, have had a lot of experience with psychedelics, had what Mckenna refers to as the "heroic dose" on shrooms resulting in ego death, and have been following Leo's work for a few years. For the first time ever I believe I had a naturally occurring no self experience last month, without trying. I wanted to know if any of your guy's experience was similar to mine? I was sat down scrolling through my Facebook news feed and I saw a picture of a couple holding hands, I didn't know who the couple were, but I started to get uncharacteristically particularly soppy, I thought to myself "oh that is so sweet that they're holding hands together, that they're connected, that they're in love etc etc and as I was thinking those thoughts I felt this feeling of love and empathy melt my body away (just like the build up of a trip) and then the whole room and everything in it including myself swirled up in to a vortex, and then there was nothing. Pure nothing but this deep contentment. My ego kicked in and I got a little scared and then it faded and I was back to normal. I physically felt the shuddering of my head and consciousness as everything swirled up. I'd not experienced anything like it before without the use of psychedelics. For the record, I haven't done psychedelics for about a year now, I'm getting married next week, have no history of passing out...... Thanks guys.