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Hello everyone.  I'm looking for information and thoughts on enlightenment.  I'm talking about the kind of enlightenment where you become enlightened in an instant.  The real 'sage' stuff.  Limitless grasp of reality.  The ultimate achievement of spiritual growth.  Becoming your 'higher-self'.

Has anyone had such an experience and want to talk about it?  Does anyone have any thoughts on what such an experience would ultimately mean to the experiencer?

David

I'm really happy to see everyone seems to be on the same page.  If you've been following the posts you read that my experience happened when I was young and not very knowledgable about the world.  Whatever "it" is, "it" searched me out and has stayed with me for every moment since.  Like many of you have said it is a hard experience and that has been my life for the last six years.  Things are a lot better now that I have some knowledge about what happened to me, but I still feel like the infinite's playtoy.

I'm on the verge of graduating with a B.A. in philosophy and I'm currently writing my final paper on my experience.  I find it really hard to write about this using few words, but I'll give it a try.

If there is anything I notice different between my experience and some of the others that people have shared it is that for all its good and bad it stayed with me.  I can't begin to share how this has impacted my life.  In fact, I'm of the mind that I exist in large part so 'it' can exist within me.  From the moment it happened there was little doubt in my mind of the magnitude of it.  In that moment and from then on...everything just made sense.  That is to say everything made sense in infinite ways.  I hate to say this, but I must: I belive in everything, I believe in nothing, and I believe in everything in-between, exclusively, or not.  I don't know how I could say something true, but I also don't know how I could say something that isn't true.  It's a strange world.[]

The reason I started this topic was because I have had such an experience.  It happened a little over six years ago.  I was a normal teenager and had never done anything to bring it about.  In retrospect I can see how my life was led toward the experience but at the time, to put it lightly, I had no clue what had happened to me (and no I was not on drugs).  It was by far the biggest thing that has ever happened to me, but I didn't discuss it for the first four years.  I had no words. Ineffable, indeed.

A little over a year ago I met a professor of philosophy that had some knowledge of this sort of thing and I have become more aware of others that have had similar experiences.  Reading about their experiences has given me a vocabulary for the subject.

I'm not saying I know anything special and as the good wisdom on the other page says, I am just trying to 'be' (theoretically a more difficult task than it would seem).[]

I'm interested in what everyone thinks the relation to any sort of astral experience is to the context of the conversation?  I liked R. Bruce's thoughts on the 'Source', has what he said jived with your experiences?