05-21-2017, 08:56 AM
Ah I remember those feelings. I too had come to a point where I was having difficulty determining whether I was reaching a new point in my level of meditation or was I simply beginning to fall asleep. I came to the conclusion it was a bit of both. There is a state of consciousness just before sleep comes and I can't remember the name of it where many such practices occur such as astral travel, trance, etc.
This is where I believe this fear type emotion stems from. I would also get to a point where the silence would become almost deafening, I would feel like I'm spinning over and over, a high pitch would take over as I could feel myself going deeper and deeper down the tree of sorts. Getting to the root mind I think they call it. I would always get to a point where a bit of anxiety would arise and I would literally jerk a bit and it would pull me all the back to the beginning.
After this happened multiple times, I finally decided to force myself to go deeper and deeper by visualizing a tree starting at it's branches then the trunk then the roots by way of an elevator shaft of sorts.
This forceful deepening of my meditations is where I would reach some sort of state where I would begin to hear things. This was also one of only a couple times where I heard what I considered a spirit guide or friend of sorts. As I was in this state, I asked about a guide. All of a sudden, I heard a loud knock on a door, the opening of it and a feminine voice saying "here I aaaaammm" which snapped me back into a normal state as it startled me so much lol
This is where I believe this fear type emotion stems from. I would also get to a point where the silence would become almost deafening, I would feel like I'm spinning over and over, a high pitch would take over as I could feel myself going deeper and deeper down the tree of sorts. Getting to the root mind I think they call it. I would always get to a point where a bit of anxiety would arise and I would literally jerk a bit and it would pull me all the back to the beginning.
After this happened multiple times, I finally decided to force myself to go deeper and deeper by visualizing a tree starting at it's branches then the trunk then the roots by way of an elevator shaft of sorts.
This forceful deepening of my meditations is where I would reach some sort of state where I would begin to hear things. This was also one of only a couple times where I heard what I considered a spirit guide or friend of sorts. As I was in this state, I asked about a guide. All of a sudden, I heard a loud knock on a door, the opening of it and a feminine voice saying "here I aaaaammm" which snapped me back into a normal state as it startled me so much lol