The feeling of formlessness
I had this strange sensation a couple of days ago while I was meditating in the Ashram at Pondicherry. I was, in my head, imploding myself to lifelessness and trying to feel a sense of oneness with the Higher force. I have been doing this many times, along with the opposite experiment of expanding myself into a universal largeness to feel small and again, connect with a higher force/being. Now, although I have been doing both of these, I had a strange feeling this time because as I was trying to come back to consciousness and into myself - I had lost all sense of my body in my head. I actually felt that I was nothing. I couldn't feel my physical presence, my body, my arms, legs, the fact that I was sitting Japanese style, the ground - nothing. The feeling was wonderful and immensely moving almost a spiritual epiphany of sorts. Although there definitely is some solid scientific reasoning of this sudden senselessness - what I was feeling then was nothing short of a momentary s...