And, Enlightenment happened.

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I didn't come to these forums to gain enlightenment*. I came to these forums to

discuss and understand that which had already happened to me.

 

....basically, one day in late 2003, I woke up 'without my body'! I woke up as if

I had no body. I woke up as if my body had disappeared.

 

Maybe, I felt similar to what many people reportedly feel after taking some

drugs...

 

 

 

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine ***)

 

....except that I had never taken drugs.

 

 

Many other things had changed too. But, I think the 'loss of body' was the most

stunning, unexpected and startling.

 

I was trying to understand it in every way, I could think of... by studying

spiritually, by studying enlightenment, by studying kundalini, scientifically,

medically, by studying hormones, by studying brain, by studying disease, by

studying death.

 

For some times, I suspected slow physical death too. But, after I didn't die, I

" assumed " ** this is what enlightenment must be like... irrespective of whether I

can articulate it like Osho, Ramana, JK or Sankara... or, not!

 

 

 

 

....after all, 'body' disappears in the Deep Dreamless Sleep Too except that

*you* (the aware *memory* consciousness) is not there to *record* it.

 

 

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* Yet, the DEEP DREAMLESS SLEEP is Both *Physical* as well *Mental*. A large

part of " thinking mind " is absent in the Deep Dreamless Sleep... but, so it the

" Body " . In fact, " body " might be absent simply because the mind is Silent. After

all, the body becomes " absent " under anesthesia too. Maybe, body is " born " only

due to the activities in and by the brain/mind.

 

 

 

 

** I hade to " assume " it because there is no known instrument or test to

reliably measure it. And, I could no longer wait for some " state " or could claim

to be missing some " Glorious " " state " .

 

The state which had happened was already many times deeper than the deepest

orgasm or meditation that I had ever had before - and, this time it was all

uncaused and had become sort of 'default' condition!

 

 

 

 

** Ketamine produces a dissociative state, characterised by a sense of

detachment from one's physical body and the external world which is known as

depersonalization and derealization.

 

.... Users may experience worlds or dimensions that are ineffable, all the while

being completely unaware of their individual identities or the external world.

 

....Users have reported intense hallucinations including visual hallucinations,

perceptions of falling, fast and gradual movement and flying, 'seeing God',

feeling connected to other users, objects and the cosmos, experiencing psychic

connections, and shared hallucinations and thoughts with adjacent users.

 

Users may feel as though their perceptions are located so deep inside the mind

that the real world seems distant (hence the use of a " hole " to describe the

experience). Some users may not remember this part of the experience after

regaining consciousness, in the same way that a person may forget a dream. Owing

to the role of the NMDA receptor in long-term potentiation, this may be due to

disturbances in memory formation. The " re-integration " process is slow, and the

user gradually becomes aware of surroundings.

 

 

>>>>>>>> At first, users may not remember their own names, or even know that

they are human, or what that means. Movement is extremely difficult, and a

 

******** user may not be aware that he or she has a body at all ********.

 

 

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