| Untagged | 22 Apr 2009 |
| Comparing the TM experience by david | |
I’ve listened to the lectures, but I’ve never had a TM experience, and I was trying to think of something that might be a corollary to the TM experience. Is there something that you can describe that might be something we’ve all experienced that comes close to that?
What they say: many people have experienced transcending. And there’s an experience that you can have just before you go to sleep. You’re awake, but you sort of fall, and you maybe see some white light, and you get a little jolt of bliss, you know, something like that? And you say, “Holy jumping George!”
Dr. John Hagelin could explain that when you go from one state of consciousness, waking, to another state, sleeping, you go through a gap. And in that gap, you can transcend. And I picture it like a round, white room, and you’ve got red, yellow, and blue curtains. But in between there, you can see the white of the Absolute—the pure bliss consciousness. You can transcend in that little piece of white. Then you come back to the next state of consciousness: you’re coming around, and the next one you go.
And there’s a thing about the gap: there’s this thing about the gap. The white room is all there, so it’s here, there, and everywhere. And sometimes—we don’t know how—but people have transcended; they transcend. The thing about Transcendental Meditation is it’s a guarantee that you can do it all the time when you sit and meditate. That’s the beautiful thing about it.
And go all the way in. Some forms of meditation, they say, is contemplation or concentration: it’ll keep you on the surface. You won’t transcend; you won’t get that coherent full brain thing, and you won’t get that bliss. You’re on the surface. And if there wasn’t Transcendental Meditation, I don’t know what form of meditation I would go to get. Because I want to dive all the way. I want to experience that deepest level.
