At the start of 2015, I was still working at the restaurant. I had finally finished college. Pressure to leave my parent’s house was mounting. I was planning a move from NJ to Seattle, WA, where my high school friend was already living.
By late December of 2014, High EQ was getting very intense and trippy. I had been navigating the sub-stages of the 11th Nana for six months, noting all day, every day. I was having weird, sexually charged visions. Random, seemingly alien beliefs were popping up out of nowhere. I experienced the peak of these things as I spent New Years in Niagara Falls. Although I hadn’t gotten SE yet, I resolved to get as much progress along the insight access as possible, within the year.
At the beginning of 2014, I had resolved for SE within 12 months. Coincidentally, it did happen 3 days after New Years. I was talking to my Mom about meditation while sitting with my eyes closed. I was trying this need I felt to allow reality to be inherently pleasurable, forever. As I thought this, it felt like someone blew a hole in my crown chakra (I think of Fight Club’s final scene in which Tyler Durden shoots himself in the head).
I would later confirm, and then reconfirm, with Ron, that this was indeed Stream Entry. An interesting effect that he highlighted was my newfound ability to easily fabricate soft jhanas. Also, the cycles in Review phase were ridiculously fast. It seemed comedic, given how much freakin’ time I had spent working my through each Vipassana Jhana. What previously took 5 months would now happen in 5 minutes of meditation.
By late December of 2014, High EQ was getting very intense and trippy. I had been navigating the sub-stages of the 11th Nana for six months, noting all day, every day. I was having weird, sexually charged visions. Random, seemingly alien beliefs were popping up out of nowhere. I experienced the peak of these things as I spent New Years in Niagara Falls. Although I hadn’t gotten SE yet, I resolved to get as much progress along the insight access as possible, within the year.
At the beginning of 2014, I had resolved for SE within 12 months. Coincidentally, it did happen 3 days after New Years. I was talking to my Mom about meditation while sitting with my eyes closed. I was trying this need I felt to allow reality to be inherently pleasurable, forever. As I thought this, it felt like someone blew a hole in my crown chakra (I think of Fight Club’s final scene in which Tyler Durden shoots himself in the head).
I would later confirm, and then reconfirm, with Ron, that this was indeed Stream Entry. An interesting effect that he highlighted was my newfound ability to easily fabricate soft jhanas. Also, the cycles in Review phase were ridiculously fast. It seemed comedic, given how much freakin’ time I had spent working my through each Vipassana Jhana. What previously took 5 months would now happen in 5 minutes of meditation.
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