✳️ My mind was completely engulfed by a bright light.
✳️ Sitting cross-legged on the floor.
✳️ Relaxing pan-pipe music playing through my Walkman.
✳️ My entire being was flooded with the most incredible feeling of pure love.
Dr. Wayne Dyer was the first person I ever encountered who talked about our ability to consciously direct the course of our own destiny. It was extremely empowering.
He also encouraged a daily meditation practice to find one’s calm centre and discover the divine light within. I liked the idea of feeling calm.
So I did.
Every single afternoon, for about 30 minutes, I sat cross-legged on the floor. My eyes were closed. I listened to relaxing pan-pipe music flowing through my Walkman headphones. I wasn't looking for a miracle; I was just looking for a bit of peace.
About a month later, it suddenly occurred. It happened right towards the very end of my meditation session.
I was just about to open my eyes and return to the room, when all of a sudden my mind was completely engulfed by a bright light.
Goosebumps began at the top of my head and rained down my back, feeling exactly like someone had just turned on a lovely, warm shower. I felt my entire being completely flooded with the most incredible feeling of pure love—not only from deep within myself, but vibrating all around me too.
In that fleeting moment, I understood the grand design: everyone and everything in this Universe is intimately connected by this divine love.
It was peaceful. It was blissful. And it was fleeting.
The light receded, leaving me sitting on the floor with my Walkman, but it is a moment that I will never forget. It became the ultimate North Star for my thirty-year expedition.
However, I didn’t fully comprehend the enormousness of what had actually just happened to me until a few years later. When the explanation finally arrived, it made that afternoon by the floor mean even more than I ever could have fathomed.
But I had to keep walking the path to find out...