A direct encounter with total emptiness, paradoxically felt as complete
A direct encounter with total emptiness or the complete absence of phenomenal content — often described paradoxically as full, peaceful, or like arriving home rather than nihilistic. Distinct from Presence / Stillness: the void emphasizes the absence of all objects, while stillness emphasizes the quality of awareness itself.
The higher number includes anyone who referenced emptiness or the void; the lower number counts those who described it as a direct, primary encounter in their own words.
Only in our absence are we truly present. You don't have the slightest notion anymore of being anybody. There's just completely empty space. It's a feeling of fullness — because there's nothing lacking here.
When the nothingness is present and you're not holding anything, you just are everything. There's a freedom in what comes through — more infinite universal truth of love, and presence, and kindness, and joy, and compassion.
It's the end of it. The self is really nothing other than this kind of movement — a distancing movement that's creating distance somewhere where there is no distance at all. It's like zero distance. It's totally indivisible.
When you have access to infinite Consciousness you have access to a whole lot and it's not bound by The Human Experience of Consciousness... absolute nothingness obliteration of time will happen for hours at a time like there's just nothing there.
Among accounts that include void / emptiness, these were the most common pathways that preceded it:
Experience types most commonly reported in the same accounts:
Among the 279 accounts that include void / emptiness, these integration challenges appeared most often — shown as a percentage of those accounts:
Physical phenomena reported by people whose accounts include void / emptiness:
First-hand accounts from people who described this experience — drawn from the interviews in this collection:
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