An experience of radiant, living light, within or all around
Experiences of light, either perceived externally or as a quality of consciousness itself, often described as radiant, warm, alive, or self-luminous. Distinct from ordinary light by its felt intensity and intimacy, or the sense that it was emanating from within rather than arriving from outside.
The higher number includes anyone who described unusual light; the lower number counts those who described it as the defining quality of the experience in their own words.
For an hour and a half the light was like a sun inside myself — with many many visions. A gold white flower shining like a dahlia, the center and source of my being, a chrysanthemum, a sun, a fountain of white light.
I looked in the mirror and I started to hold my hand up in this position... immediately my hand started to give off white light. It started to glow. And immediately I knew what it meant. It meant that I was a reincarnation of Buddha.
All of a sudden, I heard OM as if being sung by hundreds of people all around me... my vision was filled with the brightest white light... I felt unimaginable love and understanding. Just like anything I'd ever done, thought, said, I was understood. I wasn't condemned or judged.
I woke up and I was standing up and there's this bright bright white light all around me... it was exceedingly lucid. It felt like I was there. It was more real almost than here.
First-hand accounts from people who described this experience, drawn from the interviews in this collection:
Francisco Valentin was a young Catholic man from Puerto Rico who died in a severe car crash in 1979 at age 17-18, experiencing a death event…
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Watch interview →Savvita Vera was an Australian woman with no spiritual background who was living an ordinary contracted life when the sudden death of a clos…
Watch interview →Peter Panagore was an outdoorsman, first responder, and later ordained clergy who suffered severe hypothermia during an ice climbing expedit…
Watch interview →Georgette Star is an intuitive life coach and spiritual educator who had ecstatic mystical experiences as a young child and began meditating…
Watch interview →Tara Springett grew up in a troubled, atheist household in Germany and experienced her first Kundalini awakening at 17, though she only reco…
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