2nd Birth

After the experience (with Sean) in the fall, I felt a shift. For several days, there was a strong experience of consiousness in me and my surroundings, of everything coming alive. It was a bubble that travelled with me as I moved around. The strength of the experience wore off, but what was left was...

• A sense of consiousness as timeless, right here now, being my body and surroundings, and vibrant and alive
• Intimacy with myself and my surroundings, a sense of no separation while being very much myself
• A deep sense of grounding and integration - of consciousness and body merging in every cell in my body
• A deep sense of relaxation, that it allows me to relax and merge into myself and my surroundings, again while being very much my self and independent
• That it seems "permanent", there is no sense that it will go away
  

This may be the 2nd birth they talk about. One the one hand, there are no bells and whistles, it seems very ordinary. On the other hand, it is also extraordinary.