So, one thing you'll come across a lot with long-term meditation is personality shifts, where your interface with the world changes.
Mostly these are tiny shifts, the kind you see in mindfulness brochures. A bit of gentleness, a dash of courage.
Some are monumental.
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You end up living with a very fluid relationship with the world. One week to the next may look subtly different, a year to the next utterly alien.
You do enough of the state-shifting and you start hitting big stuff. Things explode, or collapse. New things suddenly appear.
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It's best to be careful around this stuff. Recklessly pursue altered states and changes, and you may end up some strange places.
It becomes like that scene in a fantasy or sci-fi movie where the hero discovers a new power. "Oh, I can punch through walls now."
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Except that the metaphorical wall is, say, a stuck part of your personality that held a lot of things in your life attached to it.
And now they're spinning away in freefall.
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If your practice, like mine, is mainly about liberation, it's great when you discover you're free to choose about what seemed mandatory before.
But you want to find this out in a controlled way, because messing with the internal dynamics of your life can be irreversible.
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Remove a person from your life, they may just be gone forever. Sometimes this is good. The person was predatory and they were exploiting you.
Other times, it was just that something workable was configured wrong and the spokes could be turned differently.
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The energy that comes out when you have a big release of psychic conditioning can be explosive, messy.
Years of bottling things up for some reason or another, all trying to squeeze out through this. moment. now.
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