06-07-2010, 12:31 PM
I've had many glimpses of non-dual awareness where I've resided there for several minutes at a time. They are absolutely mind blowing (literally ego shattering), but I always return back to an ego-based reality after I'm done meditating. Still the experience's are enough to completely change my entire belief structure about the universe, God, etc. Direct experience is very powerful stuff, and it has to be experienced before you can really understand it. There is a really cool video of Ken Wilber using an EEG machine to show the various Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta brains waves and their fluctuation. He seems to suggest that there is a predominance of Delta waves during the realization of pure conciousness (or at least an absence of alpha and beta - which can be distracting at first), I wonder if one of Shannon's mediation tracks could take someone straight to Delta activity and ease the meditation process to realizing unmanifest awareness.
Here's the video for anyone interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFMtq5g8N4
Here's the video for anyone interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFMtq5g8N4
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