No cause, no preparation — ordinary life, then something completely different
About a quarter of accounts describe awakening arriving with no apparent cause — in the middle of a conversation, while driving, walking, or doing something entirely mundane. No practice, no teacher, no seeking. Just ordinary life, and then something else.
These accounts are among the most striking in the collection because they most clearly separate awakening from anything the person was doing to bring it about. Something shifted on its own.
Um because I was exposed to teachers at that point that were saying, you know, don't pay too much attention to this sort of stuff like all these kind of extraordinary moments or whatever those are fleeting.
And then I got into work and it felt like the aperture of what just happened had been slowly as I was driving into work still felt really amazing, but it had closed down.
So, if I was driving a car and suddenly somebody, and all of a sudden my first chakra was in a heightened state.
So it seems like it has been a practice that people have engaged in and you know, you didn't know it was a practice, but it just happened to you spontaneously.
Experience types that appear most often in accounts with this trigger.
Other triggers that co-occur most frequently in the same accounts.