Thank you for the post. I’m curious Sasha, have you ever published (or could you) some recommended reading on Buddhism. I’ve read Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh, and feel like I’ve gotten a lot out of it. My instinct is to read more from Hanh, but I have no idea of this is the best course.
For me it put meditation and mindfulness into a totally different context. I think most people who have touched this state might be using meditation to do so, but most people have not touched this state
this was extremely soothing to read. now i can stop seeking those interpretations from various mystic traditions because this piece captured the only things i apparently needed to know and deeply felt but hadn't articulated—that experiences of the State are common yet subjective, comforting yet puzzling, unreal but quite real in ways that reality has never shown itself to be before. thank you for writing!!
I randomly found you on twitter. A platform I joined a few weeks ago. I have a very different background than you and so we may be speaking past each other. But if you will allow me, I would suggest this 'State' you speak of is not enlightenment. If you spoke of it as a state one can reach while meditating, I would agree, but I cannot agree with categorizing it as the state of enlightenment. It would prove to nuanced to go into here, but it is my contention that the very practice of meditating facilitates different states of mind, or experience, but that enlightenment, ultimately, cannot be reached through the practice of meditation. Enlightenment not being a state of mind or experience conjured up therein. You don't have to agree, I just wanted to point out the fact, from my point of view, that you have described a meditative experience, which has a beginning and an end, and not enlightenment. If that word enlightenment is to mean anything, that is. Other than that, I enjoyed your writing.
There is an alien invasion of dark demonic forces. This is all normal and part of the secret Divine Cosmic plan that is only known to the Highest. There are many actors on the stage of physicality battling these forces with varying degrees of success. However, because they are compartmentalized within and between each other, even their leaders are disconnected from the Highest Truth and fail to see their relative role because of their skewed perspective of the overall Plan.
Fortunately, the Highest has manifest on Earth and victory is inevitable because humanity and the Heavenly armies will rally and unify under the same banner.
Right now the forces on both sides are fractured, infiltrated, and fight amongst themselves. Even among the good, the future champions are a figment; a shadow of their former glory. They have forgotten themselves and many despair in hopelessness.
Fortunately, not only is the tide turning, it is impossible for victory not to be attained. This is because a new Dawn is rising and those who ally with this Dawn will be the glorious Champions remembered by history.
Enlightenment
I remember enlightenment as feeling cold and exposed, as if my ego was a blanket that my real self hid under.
That was one time. Another time I experienced nonduality I was startled by how vivid the colors around me were.
But yeah, it's difficult to talk about peak experiences without sounding like a self-absorbed jackass. Congratulations for managing to do so.
This has been your most resonant piece for me so far. Thank you.
Thank you for the post. I’m curious Sasha, have you ever published (or could you) some recommended reading on Buddhism. I’ve read Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh, and feel like I’ve gotten a lot out of it. My instinct is to read more from Hanh, but I have no idea of this is the best course.
Someday I want to reach the state..
…and the pain is gone
For me it put meditation and mindfulness into a totally different context. I think most people who have touched this state might be using meditation to do so, but most people have not touched this state
this was extremely soothing to read. now i can stop seeking those interpretations from various mystic traditions because this piece captured the only things i apparently needed to know and deeply felt but hadn't articulated—that experiences of the State are common yet subjective, comforting yet puzzling, unreal but quite real in ways that reality has never shown itself to be before. thank you for writing!!
Thank you for the great article!
Would be interested in how you distinguish between 'erasing yourself' and 'enlightenment experience'? Is the second one a 'glimpse of no-self?'
I randomly found you on twitter. A platform I joined a few weeks ago. I have a very different background than you and so we may be speaking past each other. But if you will allow me, I would suggest this 'State' you speak of is not enlightenment. If you spoke of it as a state one can reach while meditating, I would agree, but I cannot agree with categorizing it as the state of enlightenment. It would prove to nuanced to go into here, but it is my contention that the very practice of meditating facilitates different states of mind, or experience, but that enlightenment, ultimately, cannot be reached through the practice of meditation. Enlightenment not being a state of mind or experience conjured up therein. You don't have to agree, I just wanted to point out the fact, from my point of view, that you have described a meditative experience, which has a beginning and an end, and not enlightenment. If that word enlightenment is to mean anything, that is. Other than that, I enjoyed your writing.
There is an alien invasion of dark demonic forces. This is all normal and part of the secret Divine Cosmic plan that is only known to the Highest. There are many actors on the stage of physicality battling these forces with varying degrees of success. However, because they are compartmentalized within and between each other, even their leaders are disconnected from the Highest Truth and fail to see their relative role because of their skewed perspective of the overall Plan.
Fortunately, the Highest has manifest on Earth and victory is inevitable because humanity and the Heavenly armies will rally and unify under the same banner.
Right now the forces on both sides are fractured, infiltrated, and fight amongst themselves. Even among the good, the future champions are a figment; a shadow of their former glory. They have forgotten themselves and many despair in hopelessness.
Fortunately, not only is the tide turning, it is impossible for victory not to be attained. This is because a new Dawn is rising and those who ally with this Dawn will be the glorious Champions remembered by history.
The last sentence. oof.