Meditation story: when Spirit becomes Matter

An accessible and liberating insight into the nature of self

Sometimes when you meditate, you try to look for the center. The watcher of all things. The self. You.

The point is to see that there is no center you can truly pinpoint, but only experiences happening in a space. And the sum of it all is the best you you can find.

So here I am, seeking the center, and several things happen.

• First, looking for a center, I notice some place in my upper right jaw which seem to be some anchor, some center of me holding. How curious, I get closer

• As I get closer, the image of my body dissolves. My mental construct disappears as my attention gets closer to the place I’m looking for. Like when you hyper-focus on something and everything around you disappears.
  The body image is typically a representation of self and when it vanishes, things start to get interesting. You realize you’re getting somewhere.

• Then, as I get closer and closer, I progressively become this part I’m looking at. The subject-object relationship vanishes. The frontier between experience and what is experiencing disappears.
  The trick is you try to look at the point which you deem to be your center, but you look at it, so you must be exterior to it.
  This paradox resolves when you look closer. Now there is no object to look at, and no place to look at it from, there is just the sensation.

• At this point, you feel great, energetic, free, excited.

Great way to start a day! This happened to me this morning.

It’s one of the first levels of life-changing experiences you can have meditating.

Going further down that road, there are amazing emotions of liberation, oneness and euphoria. Story for another day!

Do you also wish to experience what happens when spirit and matter merge?