(04-24-2011, 03:25 PM)NeoIcebreaker Wrote: I wish to share with you all an experience that happened to me while meditating a few years back that I think you'll all like. I've never told anyone about it till now because my knowledge on the subject is limited and I have yet to recreate the experience though I dont meditate very often. I was doing research one day on the internet and was drawn to the idea of mantras and the act of sitting and repeating the same words while having the eyes closed. So I sat down and put myself into a full lotus posture (which was uncomfortable by the way lol) and I closed my eyes and pointed them up in the direction of my third eye chakra area and began repeating to myself "God is love, God is light, God is knowledge, God is wisdom" and other things of that nature always beginning with "god is". After a while (I'm not entirely sure how long it must have been but no longer than 15 minutes) I went silent and my entire view opened up in a sphere like manner and I could "see" all around me. Up, down, left,right, forward, and even behind me. I could see the ceiling and the bed behind me, my dresser in front of me as well as the door to my side and my nightstand to my other side. Not only that but everything I saw was mad up of these small golden specs of light that vibrated in place. Even though the entire experience lasted only for a split second, I could "see" no seperation between me and the air or the air to the objects around me but only an endless sea of vibrating gold specs of light. I was so stunned because I wasn't expecting that to happen, heck I wasn't expecting anything to happen. Now I've heard stories about near death experiences and out-of-body experiences but thats all they were to me, stories. *throws hands in the air due to confusion* Im sorry but I'm still at a loss at any kind of explanation as to how it happened the way it did. My best theory so far is that my subconcious mind and its ability to basically be aware of the sorrounding area and my concious mind and its need to filter out some information and bring other information to the forefront of our awareness (from what I've read)were no longer seperate but operated as one, but why everything appeared as gold specs of vibrating light....I don't know. The only reason I wished to share this experience with you is to maybe gain some more insight and to see if anyone else has had an experience like that. I don't hear voices and I've never seen little fairies dancing around somewhere (not that I'm judgemental against those who may have) and the only drug I've ever done is marajuana and I tell you with 100% certainty that I was not high. I have plenty of experience with pot to tell you that that was not a pot trip (though the experience itself was pretty far out lol). I welcome any comments regarding my experience and I welcome the stories of others in regards to meditation.
If you had then focused on the spaces in between those particles (without having any thoughts), you might have been able to cause the "particles" to disappear; and then you would have entered The Void. This happened to me one time, many years ago.