06-24-2015, 10:28 AM
Dear Bring4th,
During my morning meditation yesterday, I had a recurrence of an unusual experience. I wonder if you've experienced similar or have insight to share.
It is very difficult to adequately describe and translate into spatial terms, but here goes.
When meditating with sufficient concentration/presence, I sometimes feel an extra energetic layer, you might say, that is interpenetrating or over top of the physical body. Though I do not lose motor control or sense of my physical body.
When it happens, I acutely feel its denseness. It has a denseness that brings to mind a feeling of the metal lead, as if I am surrounded in a field of energetic lead. It also has a sense of weight, almost as if it heavy... or pressing upon the physical body.
But it has no actual weight because it has no actual mass. It simply feels extremely... packed. Like I have pillows stuffed into pillows stuffed into pillows surrounding me.
There is however a simultaneous feeling of its lightness, or airiness, despite its denseness/heaviness. (As I mentioned, it is difficult to adequately describe.)
As to its relative shape and size... Can you picture how a person looks when dressed up in a fake sumo outfit? It feels like it overlaps my physical body to about those proportions. But sometimes I cannot apply spatial descriptions to it.
There is one more characteristic I can perceive that is even more difficult to translate. It's as if there are... bands of energy, as it were, that run through this field and somehow or another connect to or run through the physical body.
I have this vague memory that I've experienced this before in childhood when in bed for sleep. It happens once in a blue moon in my adult life, usually connected with meditation.
I cannot perceive any particular function or use of this experience. Nor does it provide me any information. It's simply a sensation, albeit a very intriguing and question-raising sensation.
I wonder if I am becoming conscious of one of the subtle bodies? Perhaps the astral, as that it the first in line beyond the yellow-ray vehicle.
Appreciate any thoughts or leads!
: ) GLB
During my morning meditation yesterday, I had a recurrence of an unusual experience. I wonder if you've experienced similar or have insight to share.
It is very difficult to adequately describe and translate into spatial terms, but here goes.
When meditating with sufficient concentration/presence, I sometimes feel an extra energetic layer, you might say, that is interpenetrating or over top of the physical body. Though I do not lose motor control or sense of my physical body.
When it happens, I acutely feel its denseness. It has a denseness that brings to mind a feeling of the metal lead, as if I am surrounded in a field of energetic lead. It also has a sense of weight, almost as if it heavy... or pressing upon the physical body.
But it has no actual weight because it has no actual mass. It simply feels extremely... packed. Like I have pillows stuffed into pillows stuffed into pillows surrounding me.
There is however a simultaneous feeling of its lightness, or airiness, despite its denseness/heaviness. (As I mentioned, it is difficult to adequately describe.)
As to its relative shape and size... Can you picture how a person looks when dressed up in a fake sumo outfit? It feels like it overlaps my physical body to about those proportions. But sometimes I cannot apply spatial descriptions to it.
There is one more characteristic I can perceive that is even more difficult to translate. It's as if there are... bands of energy, as it were, that run through this field and somehow or another connect to or run through the physical body.
I have this vague memory that I've experienced this before in childhood when in bed for sleep. It happens once in a blue moon in my adult life, usually connected with meditation.
I cannot perceive any particular function or use of this experience. Nor does it provide me any information. It's simply a sensation, albeit a very intriguing and question-raising sensation.
I wonder if I am becoming conscious of one of the subtle bodies? Perhaps the astral, as that it the first in line beyond the yellow-ray vehicle.
Appreciate any thoughts or leads!
: ) GLB
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi