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.
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.
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.
I felt loved and cared for, an unconditional love, a love that I certainly had never experienced before. I sensed that I was in a very special place.
Among accounts that include love / bliss, these were the most common pathways that preceded it:
Experience types most commonly reported in the same accounts:
Among the 536 accounts that include love / bliss, these integration challenges appeared most often — shown as a percentage of those accounts:
Physical phenomena reported by people whose accounts include love / bliss:
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…
Watch interview →