Illness

The body's crisis creating conditions the ordinary mind couldn't maintain

7.9% of accounts · 60 episodes
What is this

Serious or chronic illness creates conditions that the ordinary self can no longer maintain control over. Several accounts describe awakening arriving at the moment of accepting death, or during the radical surrender that sustained illness demands.

Illness appears to work similarly to other crisis triggers — it breaks the habitual sense of control and continuity, sometimes opening into something that was there all along.


From the accounts
And then when she came out within two weeks, she was totally all healed from this terminal cancer.
You had to go to the hospital or you go to your local medical doctor.
But I was not in a physical condition anymore to be able to realize that life plan because I was too sick.
I did a month of Lyme disease treatment and it was the worst experience of my life just made me a lot sicker and it was just really horrible.

Common experience types

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Often appears alongside

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