Hey everyone,

I think i know the answer to this but wanted to post it anyway just to see if my thinking is right.

I always thought I had never had an experience when i was younger like most people but I was thinking back the other day and i think i might have! It happened many times over a period when i was younger, i always classed it as a dream back then and dismissed it. It was really vivid and i remember everything perfectly, even now and it hasn't happened for years!

Anyway the bit I wanted to talk about always happened at the end, i was alone somewhere, where, i couldn't tell you because i never knew or even noticed where i was, i just felt myself expanded? Being young i always associated it with putting on lots of weight but feeling light, i always felt like i had put on 30 stone! or however much lol but it felt good in a weird way and i think this was me feeling that expanded state at the end of the dream.

I don't know whether this was a sign to get exploring, i wish i had done now lol but was just curious as to why i would have this experience many times at a young age as well. Was it a message of some sort?

Cheers for listening,

Ryan

Hi Ryan-
There's an effective meditation technique that involves expanding to fill the entire universe, then contracting until there's only a point of definition with no content - several repetitions - Hinu and Buddhist yogis use this one, and it would fit well with possible experiences of the British Raj in India, as well as some of the imported practices from there.

Oh yes, The end state is discovery of Self, in the sense used by Ramana Maharshi, for example, where you the One are also you the Many. This is sarvastarka samadhi. Perhaps the meaning of the experiences is to keep at it and see where you go.

PUL
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