Unconditional love or joy experienced as the nature of reality itself
An unconditional, all-encompassing love, joy, or bliss, not directed at any object, person, or outcome, but experienced as the nature of reality itself. Experiencers typically emphasized that this love required no cause and was simply what remained when ordinary experience fell away.
The higher number includes anyone who mentioned these qualities; the lower number counts those who described this as a central, objectless quality of their experience in their own words.
It was blissful. It was joyful. It was full of love. It was an incredible feeling that you don't ever feel on earth — if even if everything, the best things that ever happened to you were all rolled into one, they would pale by comparison.
Every molecule in my body felt supercharged, not just with energy, but with love, with absolute peace and joy and happiness and unconditional love beyond anything I ever knew.
For the first time in my life I felt like I was loved unconditionally — I let go, I was relaxed, I felt I didn't have to work at being more lovable or being liked or being more spiritual. It was like I was just bathed in this amazing loving magnificent energy.
I was permeated with that joy and that bliss and that love beyond measure. And I was starving for it! And I remember having the feeling like finally!
First-hand accounts from people who described this experience, drawn from the interviews in this collection:
A young college student around age 19 had a spontaneous third eye opening that led to a Kundalini syndrome crisis, resulting in hospitalizat…
Watch interview →Michael A. Rodriguez was an academic with four degrees who taught literature at the university level for over a decade while simultaneously …
Watch interview →Maggie Gillovich was a sociologist and self-described materialist who had a spontaneous first awakening — a direct seeing into the nature of…
Watch interview →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…
Watch interview →Jurgen C is a commercial artist and author who began having spontaneous out-of-body experiences early in his adult life, initially without a…
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…
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