Ecstatic State
Kumukulanui
For some reason I decided to sit quietly at my desk after finishing my work for the day, and count my breaths for a while.
After a couple of minutes I had the experience of waves of energy flowing up my spine and into my head. A feeling of ecstasy accompanied the experience and this feeling lasted a couple of hours after the energy feeling subsided.
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It is one of many unusual experiences I have had before and since. Others have included out-of-body experiences, universal 'at one with everything' experiences and various altered states of consciousness etc.
I don't make too much out of them - like most religious/mystical/spiritual experiences they may seem to reflect an external, transcendent reality, but could equally well be explained as exclusively internal phenomena, after Michael Persinger's work for instance. Quite enjoyable though!
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