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My most intense mindfulness experience was on a two-week silent retreat, in the woods, isolated from all of humanity. At the beginning, I met only the creatures
by ghoastl 4y ago
My most intense mindfulness experience was on a two-week silent retreat, in the woods, isolated from all of humanity. At the beginning, I met only the creatures of the forest and heard only the whispers of the trees.
By the sixth day I was hallucinating gold and purple snakes slithering out of my belly onto the ground around me.
By the eighth day I had visions of a cloud island vista with animals the world had never seen. They were cautious but friendly, and rode with me until the end of my journey that day.
By the twelfth day, I could see nothing but heard the most beautiful music. Melodies and harmonies fluttered and floated across my audible plane, bringing an intense sense of peace and joy.
When I left that place, I was a changed spirit. I may have been alone in physical form, but the universe embraced my inner self and showed me the path to enlightenment.
- mahathu 4y agoYou're describing a psychosis.
- ghoastl 4y agoI am describing my experience. If you make the choice to medicalize my words, that is your own interpretation. But you were not there, you do not know.
- fluoridation 4y agoYou yourself describe it as a hallucinatory state, though. Were you aware that you were hallucinating at the time, or is it only in retrospect that you're able to realize that?
- akomtu 4y agoIn a country of deaf men, would hearing sounds count as hallucinations?
- fluoridation 4y agoIf a person was born who could hear radio waves, would it count as a hallucination, or would we be able to design an experiment to test whether they can actually hear radio waves?
- akomtu 4y agoSame question for hearing neutrinos or dark energy waves.
- bary12 4y agoIt's only a problem if they experience psychosis in their daily life when they don't want to. Any mental illness is only considered an illness when it causes impairment of function. other than that, probably equivalent to hallucinatory drugs.
- detourdog 4y agoMaybe everyone should experience a little psychosis.
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- kayodelycaon 4y agoHaving had two psychotic breaks, I do not recommend the experience. The last one caused something like hardware-level damage that took years for my brain to recover from.
- detourdog 4y agoNo doubt they are serious. After I made my comment I thought about editing it provide nuance. My problem is more about language and giving names to things and society adherence to the mean. As children we experience many psychotic breaks as we adjust to the world. It could be that as we mature the frequency is reduced but that doesn't mean the episodes are inherently bad. They could be a normal part of a consciousness's maturation.
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- kayodelycaon 4y ago> As children we experience many psychotic breaks as we adjust to the world. Neat, I didn’t know this. Where could I read about it? :) Most of the google results I’m getting talk about childhood schizophrenia. (Which is a thing and quite serious.)
- detourdog 4y agoSorry I'm winging it based on experience:) That just happens to be my observation and why I spoke up.
- bruce343434 4y agoYou seem to have suffered a psychosis, actually
- nprateem 4y agoSounds like your upper chakras opened. Well done on making great progress. Sounds like an amazing experience. It's no surprise these experiences are often misinterpreted as psychosis by people without an awareness of where deep meditative states can lead.
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- subrat_rout 4y agoMind disclosing the name of retreat and place where one can attend?