Something that occured during meditation..

[Peter Kraai]

Hey guys,

I need some advice, and I know this is the right place to ask, I've started walking the spiritual path less than a year ago, and am now meditating every day.

Last night, I witnessed the following during my meditation, I started to imagine being in some kind of room, and all the sudden I was getting smaller, or maybe the room was expanding, anyhow, it just didn't stop expanding, it kept growing bigger, bigger (to unbelievable sizes, never-ending, almost..), and I felt alot of energy growing within, though it might just be the feeling you get when you're in a rollercoaster..

Can anyone explain this ? Tell me what I'm looking at ? Is it me expanding or just wishful thinking ?

Love, light, Pk

[Ria]

Enjoy, go with it, take the ride, expanding consciousness.

[Peter Kraai]

Enjoy, go with it, take the ride, expanding consciousness.

That's what I did ^^ I just wanna know if it was significant.. :p

[Anchor]

Go there again, and play with it. Go in look around etc.

My wife uses a technique that this sounds like. She created a room, and she goes there in order to ask from time to time for help/healing etc and actually meets people and talks to them in there.

[Tony]

In meditation, consciousness expands.
Any experiences are called a nyam = appearances.
All appearances are an illusion.
Rest naturally in that which experiences these appearances.

Do not get distracted.

Gradually experiencer and that which is experienced will dissolve into mere experience.

Tony

[Peter Kraai]

Thanks guys, I'll go back tonight and report back here if I have new findings :D

[Tony]

There is information in the 'Meditation Group' in Groups.

Tony

[meeradas]

"What appears and disappears is not real"

never forget that

[Peter Kraai]

Thanks for taking the time to help someone out, I really appreciate it !

[Gardener]

Hello Peter, what an adventure you embark on.
Whenever someone relates the experiences of their journey inward I thoroughly enjoy hearing about it. Sometimes there are close similarities to my own experiences and sometimes there are not. Either way, whenever I try to convert it to words to explain what happens, it somehow always seems to fall short of what it was like in the moment.
Although my conscious ego self loves to wade in and have a lot of opinions, I wouldn’t feel confident to comment on what the expanding room means because it’s YOURS. Your inner landscape, just as your outer one, is practically unique to you, have the confidence to adventure and see how it relates to you, your life, your spirituality, your questions, your challenges.
One thing I will say that helps me is to document each journey, in both meditation and dreams, it helps to crystallize the experience and make connections over time.
Bon Voyage
g

[Gardener]

Go there again, and play with it. Go in look around etc.

My wife uses a technique that this sounds like. She created a room, and she goes there in order to ask from time to time for help/healing etc and actually meets people and talks to them in there.

Couldn't agree more John! Mine's a cave for what it's worth, and I am ALWAYS surprised by what turns up that wasn't there last time and what disapears. lol There is a sort of symbolic language which builds over time.

Understanding by keeping it simple, I discovered at one point that whilst most of the time I would go into the cave and onwards through a door or a crack or a window, there were times when I was was met by a really scary looking spider, um now what! Much later I learned that this was a shamanic type journey, the spider was a kind of door keeper which would stare me out and I could not pass, and at other times I could follow it into the 'underworld' on these journeys I was never at any time alone but various animals or shaman type mixtures of animals would carry me through until I returned to the cave. I never set out to do it this way, it just happened so go figure.

Nice to hear people having similar experiences, helps verify that we beings have a natural affinity with the inner search.

g

[WhiteFeather]

Awesome. Thanks For Sharing,,,,You should Go ask Alice, when she was just small.

[meeradas]

Hey guys

PK, you might want to have a look at this (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?17056) here, as well.

[minkton]

It depends what you are hoping to achieve with your meditation, wether you consider this significant or not. There are many arising phenomena in meditation. If you want to develop inner conversation with your daemon or guiding spirits, then it sounds as though you have found a shamanic opening to explore.

If you are looking for stilling the mind as your meditative goal, then arising phenomena are to be treated as just one more transient phenomena to observe rising and falling along with all the distractions of the mind.

[Peter Kraai]

I tried to go back last night, but I couldn't.. I felt rather tired and uneasy.. couldn't keep my eyes closed.. Too much distraction !