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Mori · 09-21-2008, 08:53 AM

I was sitting at home messing around with my old Yamaha guitar and I was trying to learn the intro to the Queensryche song Silent Lucidity. I was in my living room being critical of my actions as I hand picked the strings trying to put the notes in perfect harmony and several minutes into strumming the strings I became conscious of my absence of thought.

As I continued picking the strings my vision began to change from a normal blur to heightened sense of awareness. I started feeling different without thought, but I hadn't put 2 and 2 together that my lack of thought was what was causing the change.

I wasn't really expecting it to happen and as it happened it terrified me. I had no clue what stillness of mind was all about. I had heard of monks and so forth trying to achieve different states of awareness but never gave it much thought. It was an experience to this day (12 or so years later) I still do not know how to describe except to put it this way:

Nothing is real, yet everything is real due to the manifestation from thought because of the energy emitted from thought.

I keep trying to achieve stillness again but I think my mind created a failsafe because the first time experience traumatized it. I think part of my problem with it is trying to use key words to achieve it ie. thoughts... None the less it changed my life from that moment forward. I have a difficult time now even speaking to people, because somehow I can see them sleeping mentally.

09-21-2008, 08:53 AM	#12
Mori Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 41	Re: What was your most important spiritual experience? I was sitting at home messing around with my old Yamaha guitar and I was trying to learn the intro to the Queensryche song Silent Lucidity. I was in my living room being critical of my actions as I hand picked the strings trying to put the notes in perfect harmony and several minutes into strumming the strings I became conscious of my absence of thought. As I continued picking the strings my vision began to change from a normal blur to heightened sense of awareness. I started feeling different without thought, but I hadn't put 2 and 2 together that my lack of thought was what was causing the change. I wasn't really expecting it to happen and as it happened it terrified me. I had no clue what stillness of mind was all about. I had heard of monks and so forth trying to achieve different states of awareness but never gave it much thought. It was an experience to this day (12 or so years later) I still do not know how to describe except to put it this way: Nothing is real, yet everything is real due to the manifestation from thought because of the energy emitted from thought. I keep trying to achieve stillness again but I think my mind created a failsafe because the first time experience traumatized it. I think part of my problem with it is trying to use key words to achieve it ie. thoughts... None the less it changed my life from that moment forward. I have a difficult time now even speaking to people, because somehow I can see them sleeping mentally.