It feels like going through a portal. It gets increasingly intense as you get closer to it, then suddenly you're submerged in nothingness and time stands still for an immeasurable period. Then, just as suddenly, you get spit out on the other side and wonder what just happened.
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This experience is like the wave-particle duality collapsing. You realize it's not a duality. Not only is there no division between the observer and the sensations, but the observer does't exist. And the sensations are just waves arising from the Void. There is no "self".
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Sometimes, you can see glimpses of the deeper reality through meditation or in other circumstances. But it often takes seeing it with enough of your being for it to "click". This is why shutting up the mental chatter and releasing the emotions first helps immensely.
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For me, this experience last year was so earth-shaking that it felt like I broke my head and went completely insane. I'd already had close to no mental chatter for months at that point from doing a ton of meditation, so it hit like a supernova. Cue the self annihilation meme.pic.twitter.com/SNTr0VASTV
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This whole business of awakening is not a pleasant experience, or at least it wasn't for me. I've heard the same from others who have had it.
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I had been meditating for 8 years by the time I had this experience. The year I got it, I was meditating 1-3 hours a day, sometimes as much as 6 hours.
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One time I meditated for most of 48 hours straight, and noticed that I had some continuous awareness even during sleep. That was an interesting discovery, but it's just a side note.
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Meditation is not all fun and roses, especially if you do a lot of it.
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Replying to @euvieivanova
I was thinking about writing more on this topic as it seems underrepresented. Do you know of anyone focusing on it?
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Replying to @garybasin
The unpleasantness / difficulty of awakening? There is some stuff on
@DeconstructingU,@Dan_Jeffries1' piece on Rick and Morty was good, I also recall@Meaningness' Buddhism For Vampires site having some tongue in cheek stuff.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
This paper from a year ago is the standard academic cite on the topic: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176239 … I’m not sure I buy the methodology overall, but they collected a large number of first-hand descriptions of emotionally rough non-ordinary meditation experiences
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Replying to @Meaningness @euvieivanova
Oh the other thing that comes to mind is recent academic interest in "dark night" experiences
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Replying to @garybasin @euvieivanova
Yes, this paper is the final report on what was originally called the Dark Night Project. They decided that name was misleading and changed it
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