SquirrelKing

@thesmileyone Yes, same - But as Leo also says, you can short-circuit it. You can become become enlightened by meditating in a cave for multiple months straight. But that's really hardcore way to go, and most people prefer a comfortable slope. A wild man being chased by a tiger in a jungle decides to write poetry. And yeah, I completely agree about the "sense of meaning", but I guess from an outer perspective that's a pretty clean cut way to put it.

Hello fellow divine travelers, yesterday I had my second enlightenment experience, and was extremely scary. In fact it was so scary that I could not complete the exercise I was doing. I can't really yet describe accurately what I experienced, but definitely a feeling of being one with everything. When I was at my deepest point, I couldn't locate my physical self any longer, which scared me a lot, and I was afraid that I couldn't break out of it again, hence I had to stop the exercise. Other than that I also saw some really cool light, but I guess my imagination also ran off. I had to break the exercise because my body litterally told me: "If you continue this, you are going to die" more in a sense of "You ain't going back if you proceed". This tells me that I have to work with my fears, it's funny and amazing how you can use spiritual work to uncover things you normally wouldn't have thought you can improve on. I guess this is why Maslow put self-trancendance on the very top of his hierachy of needs by the very end of his life - Because you need a really good foundation before you can smoothly see the divine, otherwise you will get blocked by these things at some point. Here's the pyramid, for a reference. I want to share the exercise that took me to this experience, because I think it might be as powerful to you as it was to me. It is strongly inspired from hypnotherapy, and it turns out to work really well for spiritual work, at least for me. It goes like this: To start off 1. Calm your mind, do your usual thing. 2. Think about all your senses, and get in touch with them. 3. Think about how you percieve your senses. 4. Observe your thoughs. Ask yourself where they are coming from. 5. Really try to grasp where the thoughts are coming from. Once you have established a feeling of self with your thoughts and senses, do this 6. Visualize a brick wall of infinite width and height. 7. Imagine you and all your senses and thoughts being on one side of the wall. 8. Imagine your unknown/hidden self being on the other side of the wall. To me, imagining my unknown/hidden self is just a completely dark area. 9. Visualize a tiny ball. This ball is used to indicate where you currently see yourself from. It can move around from your normal self to your divine self. This ball is currently located at your normal, visual self. 10. On the count to 10, the ball will move slightly towards the divine self. And when you hit 10, it will be deep into your divine self. 11. Count to 10. Once you do this, your eyelids might start vibrating and your heart will pound. I don't know why it does this to me, but it is completely normal, but also really scary when it happens intensively. This is what gave me a small and scary enlightening experience, I hope it can do the same to you. Good day to all divine travelers, hope you uncover something cool about yourself and reality.

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