Experience of a void

[Connor]

Yesterday after a troubling period of time for me physically I experienced a void. This is the only way I can describe what happened to me. I suddenly felt aware of a multitude of realities and a connection to everything. I had before, a lack of any real experience of anything spiritual, but a basic understanding from what I have read on this forum and elsewhere. After this experience I questioned that it could be real/possible if that makes sense to anyone? I'd appreciate if someone could take the time to to reply but I'm sure someone will :) perhaps this is a part of my personal journey. I'd like to add that it helped to remove some fears of what I believed was not possible to become possible if you can forgive my vague description :)

[Citizen No2]

Hello Connor.

I cannot begin to explain what it is you experienced, that you experienced something outside of your 'normal' range of sensory perception I have no doubt, according to your words above.

Perception. What I have learnt over my forty two years is that it is the small things that come and go as early warnings, little nudges, if you like. Acknowledge and remember them and these shall shape your perception....... And it is your perception, no one else.

Nice to hear you question the norm at a relatively young age.


Regards.

[Connor]

Thank you I appreciate your reply. Feeling rather refreshed today as the events leading up to what happened where somewhat traumatic although self inflicted. It definitely involved an altered state of consciousness that was perhaps a wake up call to get back on the right track, I was for a brief second in a warm place of beauty and had several visions of interconnected realities. I felt this was the right place to share this and has helped me today :)

[Guish]

Yogananda used to say that one needs to shut down one's senses to know God. You obviously understood something without using your standard senses. If you are feeling better, if means that healing has started with a shift in consciousness. Good luck.

[Selkie]

Hi, Connor, and welcome to the forum :)

It sounds to me like you had a mystical experience. If you like to read, there is a book called The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James, that you might find enlightening, so to speak.

[Connor]

Hi, thank you for the recommendation I will definitely find the time to have a look for this book. I appreciate your response

Regards

[Sunny-side-up]

Hi Connor and thanyou for posting.

You might find something relating to your experience here in a previous post :)

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?82488-I-found-myself-in-a-void-of-darkness&p=964468#post964468

PS: What ever you see, feel, experience try to not be surprised, stay focused and make the most of it, explore it at the time! but always stay safe :)

[Connor]

Hi thanks for replying, strangely enough I read this post before making mine whilst I was trying to make sense out of what happened :) It did help

[Selkie]

I've been thinking about your post (thread), Connor, and I wonder if it would be helpful for you to do one or more recapitulations? Because mystical experiences are very hard to put into words, and yet it is words that allow people to integrate unusual experiences into the narrative of their lives. So over the course of time, doing one or more recapitulations (you don't have to show them to anyone if you don't wish to), might be able to help you tease out more detail and find words to describe what happened to you. Write a recapitulation, put it away for awhile, and then get it out and read it. Think about your experience and what you wrote in the first recapitulation, and then write another one. And so on. Just a thought.

[Connor]

Thanks that seems like a brilliant idea. Can I just say I have so much love for the response of you and others on this thread I'm glad I choose to share the experience with you as the first of its kind in my life. I'm gonna get to it straight away although not sure how I'm going to word it :) I remember reading a description of 5th dimensional reality that relates to part of it, sort of being shown how that works happened, as well as glimpse into how we are all connected on some level to everything in creation. A kind of message from the creator of all things seem to happen which was beautiful. Maybe you can relate to some of this or maybe our experiences are different in ways we cannot describe I'm not sure but thanks again silkie I'm opening my notebook up now :thumbsup:

[Caliban]

Yesterday after a troubling period of time for me physically I experienced a void. This is the only way I can describe what happened to me. I suddenly felt aware of a multitude of realities and a connection to everything.

Hi Connor, thanks for telling us what you went through here.

Often, it is during or after, "troubling periods of time" that we go through what we can term spiritual or non-local experiences. Something was changing in you, shifting if you like, moving. This was happening on an unconscious level. These experiences can be disconcerting but it sounds like you also felt a sense of consolation with that "connection to everything." There is sometimes this obscurity, this void-like sensation, then slowly a clarity begins to penetrate.

Treasure this happening or non-happening. Ask within if it has anything it can teach or show you on a more conscious level. It's a gift, which I'm sure will open you to further understandings and adventures.

[Connor]

Hi, appreciate the time you took to reply. The connection to everything was the part that really moved me and I guess the thing that I was scared to believe was possible in the sense that I didn't want to believe it and It not turn out to be true. The more I think about it today the more at ease and accepting of it I have become it genuinely fills me with happiness. Hopefully it can start the positive changes I need so the negative actions before don't occur again.

Thanks again

[Connor]

There is sometimes this obscurity, this void-like sensation, then slowly a clarity begins to penetrate.

This is great it's really helpful. Very much like what happened I guess, I struggled to word it so.

[Caliban]

The more I think about it today the more at ease and accepting of it I have become it genuinely fills me with happiness. Hopefully it can start the positive changes I need so the negative actions before don't occur again.

Yes, and hopefully it'll allow you to loosen and let go of beliefs that may have perpetuated some of those "negative actions." Keep asking yourself--what did this show me about my possibly limiting beliefs? Then mentally clear them out!

[Agape]

Yesterday after a troubling period of time for me physically I experienced a void. This is the only way I can describe what happened to me. I suddenly felt aware of a multitude of realities and a connection to everything. I had before, a lack of any real experience of anything spiritual, but a basic understanding from what I have read on this forum and elsewhere. After this experience I questioned that it could be real/possible if that makes sense to anyone? I'd appreciate if someone could take the time to to reply but I'm sure someone will :) perhaps this is a part of my personal journey. I'd like to add that it helped to remove some fears of what I believed was not possible to become possible if you can forgive my vague description :)


That's weird . What kind of void was it , I'm wondering ?

Something better then always happens , when you encounter 'meaning' . Emptiness sometimes manifests when people take you down a lot ,
or when you absorb too much information at the same time .

Brain overload , or say , collapsed function .

To me , a restart of some sort usually helps to return the bugger to its previous shape .


:coffee:

[Connor]

Hi, I think after another nights sleep and some thinking i can describe a little better what I meant by 'void'. I felt as if my focus started to go inside myself, everything in the room started to feel really far away as if I could not reach the table next to me although I was not moving. As if my consciousness was entering a void. Then stuff occured outside my normal range of senses. Like I saw stuff but not with my eyes and I felt warmth but not with my body. Was a very moving experience. I feel different In a positive way something has definitely shifted within me :)

[Connor]

Hi, I think after another nights sleep and some thinking i can describe a little better what I meant by 'void'. I felt as if my focus started to go inside myself, everything in the room started to feel really far away as if I could not reach the table next to me although I was not moving. As if my consciousness was entering a void. Then stuff occured outside my normal range of senses. Like I saw stuff but not with my eyes and I felt warmth but not with my body. Was a very moving experience. I feel different In a positive way something has definitely shifted within me :)

Welcome to the forum Connor!

Very well described experience, I feel like that description is so much similar to my own experiences from few years ago that I had to say hello.. :D Hello!

Hello!

Thanks for taking the time to read and reply :)

Happy that I managed to get a good description together in the end.
That's cool that it's similar to something you've experienced and im guessing now a lot of other people maybe.
It's still having an effect on me I guess it's changed my perspective of things. Feel like I'm now moving in a really positive direction.

:)

Regards

[Jake]

Hey, Connor.. Welcome to Avalon! :):) Sounds perfectly healthy to me! :) These types of latent abilities/experiences are very much a part of our natural make up.. it is nearly impossible to find words to describe spiritual experiences using the words we have at our disposal.. Though, you did fine.. Be aware that the word -void- will have varying meanings with folks. :) We only use these descriptive words for lack of better, more precise terminologies. What a cool experience..

and again... WELCOME TO AVALON! !!
Jake

[Connor]

Hi hi

Thanks for the reply.
Yeah I guess I just grabbed for the best word I could at the time thanks for the heads up :)
Cool is definitely the word :)

Regards

Connor

[Selkie]

Yesterday after a troubling period of time for me physically I experienced a void. This is the only way I can describe what happened to me. I suddenly felt aware of a multitude of realities and a connection to everything. I had before, a lack of any real experience of anything spiritual, but a basic understanding from what I have read on this forum and elsewhere. After this experience I questioned that it could be real/possible if that makes sense to anyone? I'd appreciate if someone could take the time to to reply but I'm sure someone will :) perhaps this is a part of my personal journey. I'd like to add that it helped to remove some fears of what I believed was not possible to become possible if you can forgive my vague description :)

Connor, I re-read your OP, and it occurred to me that what you describe sounded like the description of a phenomenon called "de-realization",

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization

It is not my intent to alarm you, and I am happy that your experience was a good one :)

[Connor]

I did make a Description a few posts on from the OP that probably reads a little better for what happened but I read the description of that and it does seem possible. However the connection I felt at the time as well as the positive effect it's brought since makes me believe it's maybe more than a psychiatric disorder although I could be wrong :) appreciate the link will look more into it

[Selkie]

I read the description and it does seem possible. However the connection I felt at the time as well as the positive effect it's brought since makes me believe it's may e more than a psychiatric disorder although I could be wrong :) appreciate the link will look more into it

Yes. I posted the link more in the spirit of completeness than anything else, since your experience was a good one.

[Connor]

Much appreciated :)