"When one achieves a considerable amount of genuine relaxation, it sometimes happens that they experience a ‘time warp,’ a sort of space/time distortion. Wang Xiang Zhai called it entering the Void.
The Void is a Buddhist term, Taoists call it Emptiness. The word void is a little bit of a misnomer in that it means ‘without contents or empty.’ This can be taken to refer to structure or form as we know form, meaning empty of things we can grasp with the mind.
There is an intrinsic difficulty in describing something that is beyond the ken of the mind. Using words, images and mental constructs can only convey an echo of the real thing. After all, we’re speaking of experiences in pure beingness, beyond our natural boundaries of time and space.
But the fact that there is nothing ‘recognizable,’ doesn’t mean that this state is inert. On the contrary, in one sense, these states of higher awareness are constantly in motion, only in present time.
This means we don’t have the usual linear reference points by which to measure our experience, let alone time or space. But even so, we can still have a knowingness. The first awareness of this sort usually occurs after the fact.
For example, we think we’ve been standing for 15 or 20 minutes, but when we check the time, it turns out to be closer to 40 or 50 minutes. When this occurs, it feels like our blood sparkles like champagne and we’re filled with vitality.
Some of the other signs may be the absence of thought and even emotion, little or no awareness of the physical body combined with the sense of perceiving and being part of the subtle nonphysical energies. Also, there may be a calmness or peacefulness that seems to pervade the depth of our being."
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