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Greetings.
During a night of LSD use a few years ago (long before I had entered into any kind of formal study or practice), I entered a state of incredible gnosis while lying in the bathtub. I was flying high - likely smoking ganja, soaking up massive quantities of red wine, and on something like 4 tabs of incredibly clean and beautiful acid. And at a certain point in the night I decided to run myself a bath. So I ran it nice and cool - my being was aflame - and dropped myself in. For whatever reason, I went immediately into a strange posture I had never before assumed in the tub. My legs were crossed and locked, in a kind of half-lotus while lying down. My arms I folded around the back of my head and made whats called in Kundalini yoga 'Venus Lock' (For men, right thumb over left, women left over right, all fingers interlaced). It actually felt initially like I was in a painting hung on the wall. Some time passed that I remember, but only vaguely, no idea exactly how long. I rolled my eyes up ajna, closed the microcosmic orbit, and began long, deep nasal breathing, working my way through a simple pranayama procession . . . eight seconds in, eight held, eight out, etc . . . Well . . . I became very relaxed, and eventually [/i]slipped[i] into a pretty wild place . . . What I remember was a kind of warp tunnel of blue and white fire and a sensation of being shot out of my body, and I felt like a skipping stone, skipping through deep space, plunging, careening, bouncing off shit . . . and eventually I was able to Will the direction of travel, and assumed the guise of the Green Lantern, my favorite comic character as a child, and proceeded to ride the vision as long as I could. Long story cut short, the entire experience lasted six hours, where I was motionless and frozen in the tub. But it seemed short . . .maybe 30 seconds long . . .
I came out of it, the acid was wearing thin, and I was left with a sense of peace and timelessness, and my consciousness was changed irevocably forever.
This post has been edited by Jahana Gray: Sep 6 2009, 11:34 PM
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Gnosis Under Water
May 28 2007, 10:15 PM
