One Whisper-And Then...
Dear reader: I see that I have told you about the Whisper. Now it is time to tell you how after it came, nothing was ever the same....
Up until the first Tuesday of the month of August 2005, I would not have been able to guess what OOBE stood for. I had one on that day. After some research on the internet, I identified it as a spontaneous (while awake) OBE of the animistic variety, and most likely induced by overwork (one of several possible inducements I found in my search).
It was an unusually hectic night in the Emergency Room of the hospital where I worked as a bedside registration rep. The following morning I was still feeling the effects of it. I awoke, drank my coffee, and still feeling tired (and a little wired too I think) I decided to lie down again.
I was totally awake with my eyes closed, immersed in thought (about some metaphysical ideas I had recently been trying to resolve), when all of a sudden I became aware that I was not in my body anymore! Instead I was slightly elevated above it, perhaps two or three feet!
As I felt my'self' existing in a conscious state of thought matter outside my body, I was able to look down on it. I observed it was in a somewhat deflated condition as clothing would look before it is fleshed out by the body. In fact, that is what it seemed like to me - my body was layed out on the bed like something for me to wear! (think about that next time your getting dressed for work). Later, I likened it to a comfortable sleeping bag I could slip into, or how a soft supple moccasin looks before the foot steps in to fill it out.
I was fully aware of what was taking place and made good mental note of it. It lasted about thirty seconds (hard to tell, maybe not even that long) after which I gradually drifted back into my body.
In reports I read on the internet, experiences of this type were sometimes life transforming to those who had the pleasure. It was most pleasant and enjoyable indeed, but I was also half prepared to attribute the cause of it to caffeine, LOL!
As for a life transforming experience, I did not think this was the case for me since I tend to take experiences like this in stride and consider them natural occurences. However, after a few days had passed, I seemed to be sensing some type of awareness and well being that was not there before. Nice and wonderful.
There is more. A little while after the initial feeling of well being (perhaps an hour or two), I became frightened and found myself wishing there was someone nearby to hold on to. I'm not sure why I was frightened as I am in no way frightened any longer. During this same period of OBE occurance, I am reading Carlos Castaneda's 'The Teachings of Don Juan'. I had reached the point where don Juan reveals the lizards from his pouch, each having their eyes or mouth sewn shut and each must eventually be consumed. I can only guess that frame of mind generated some of my fear.
I also read that most OBE's occur while lying down, but some occur while engaged in daily physical activities. I now have had both types - allow me to relate: The other one (which I did not realize was an OBE), occured about two or three years ago as I was driving to a doctor appointment. I was intently gazing into the incredibly vibrant blue sky with cascading clouds (obviously at a stoplight here, lol!). Since my episode with cancer seven years ago, I often find a vibrant blue sky to give me a sense of rapture and indeed, I was in that state when all at once and in an instant, I felt my 'being' expand throughout the entire expanse of the Universe. That was an experience of the unequalled kind - unforgettable and fortunate.
Anyway (dear reader), I am definately getting the sense that this type of occurence can be induced and controlled, but I am in no way anywhere near something like that and I don't know that I ever will be. I 'think' that it is mind/thought related, especially since my experience was animistic. (for others it may be different depending on their own experience). No doubt I will be learning much more about it.
Oh, and dear reader; let me ask you to make note at this point of the fear I told you had come and gone...and make note too of my interpretation of the impact of the event (which my mind took the liberty of rationalizing 'into' my body). This account was written just five days after the event. Today's writing is a full seventeen days afterward....which is not the same thing...I can assure you. There is more-
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Humble inquisitor of all things - cancer survivor.