Today's spiritual experience.

[RMQualtrough]

Just walking along the promenade of a beach I really like. Nothing mystical happened, no realizations. It was just a pleasant experience.

However I did find a spot where, at around 14, I had a kinda deep "mystical" moment while sitting on a bench overlooking the sea. I was with my family either side of me, with a hoodie wrapped around me to protect from the wind. I am now 29 but this is one of my strongest memories...

Because we were just sitting there and my mind is rather quizzical anyway, and I had zero anxiety disorder at that time, my mind wandered onto a thought about what the "I" thing is. I realized that there was nothing about it that could possibly be different in anyone or anything because the thing itself did not have anything about it that had any actual element where I could say "well that's different from another person's because mine is green" or w.e. other way things could be differentiated.

I thought about this deeply. Alas I could not crack why I was not able to read other people's thoughts. Eventually we got ice cream and I stopped thinking about it.

This is where it happened. I really miss my family...

[Mu_]

On 5/24/2022 at 11:04 AM, RMQualtrough said:

Just walking along the promenade of a beach I really like. Nothing mystical happened, no realizations. It was just a pleasant experience.

However I did find a spot where, at around 14, I had a kinda deep "mystical" moment while sitting on a bench overlooking the sea. I was with my family either side of me, with a hoodie wrapped around me to protect from the wind. I am now 29 but this is one of my strongest memories...

Because we were just sitting there and my mind is rather quizzical anyway, and I had zero anxiety disorder at that time, my mind wandered onto a thought about what the "I" thing is. I realized that there was nothing about it that could possibly be different in anyone or anything because the thing itself did not have anything about it that had any actual element where I could say "well that's different from another person's because mine is green" or w.e. other way things could be differentiated.

I thought about this deeply. Alas I could not crack why I was not able to read other people's thoughts. Eventually we got ice cream and I stopped thinking about it.

This is where it happened. I really miss my family...

You had a momentary glimpse into a real truth.