Wondering about an Experience I Had

[APeacefulWarrior]

I'd personally say it was your higher selves talking to you. You were being flooded with energy\catalyst at that moment. I don't wanna get all "dark side" here, but past a point, intense pain and intense pleasure have very similar effects on the body. While the circumstances were quite different, my first hints of contact were under intense situations as well.

Also, there's a definite tendency of people to "detach" their consciousness during extreme pain\pleasure. While it's thankfully never happened to me, I understand that people being tortured tend to "check out" and have that floaty not-part-of-their-body feeling once it gets too bad. If the pain got so intense your spirit was attempting to cut contact with the body, it would have presumably left you more open to contact from higher sources.

For that matter, various religious\spiritual groups have used pain to deliberately try to activate that sort of feeling. Flagellation or "corporal mortification" were sometimes used by Catholic groups during the middle ages, and I understand that certain Tantric sects can get pretty out there in terms of alternating pleasure\pain to increase such effects.

And after all, it said that it loves you. It was clearly trying to provide comfort in a really terrible situation. That's exactly what our higher-selves are there to try to do. (among other things)

Have you tried reaching out to that contact in your meditations? AFAIK, that's still the best way to detach your mind without putting the body through intense experiences.