Circumstances that resist easy categorization
About one in eight accounts name a trigger that doesn't fit the established categories — creative work, service, dance, dream states, extended fasting, or simply circumstances the person couldn't explain or label.
The existence of this category is itself significant: it suggests awakening isn't bound to any particular path or method. Whatever conditions tend to quiet the ordinary self — whatever breaks habitual identification — seems capable of opening into something else.
"I felt totally undeserving of this. There was nothing I could have done that would have earned me in any way what had occurred. It just happened to me — so it created a gap in causality."
I felt such an amazing love of a divine in my heart that I never never fathom before and that made me wanted to love everybody else — which was very strange. I never experienced those kind of feelings.
Experience types that appear most often in accounts with this trigger.
Other triggers that co-occur most frequently in the same accounts.