Experience beyond mind

How do you describe or explain what you have experienced when it is beyond words, beyond the mind and beyond any comparison? How do you do that?

I guess for most of us we have not experienced or maybe just not paid attention to any extraordinary or fundamentally different experience. You can ask yourself, why? Is it not likely that there is within our reach of perception or experience something impossible for words to describe, or is language absolute and able to describe every human experience? I think most of us have had these kinds of moments or spaces where we find ourselves in loss for words to describe. Maybe in dreams, maybe in a moment where everything changes, where we glimps something unexplainable for the mind. Maybe we experience something radical but as our mind chattering is switched back on we try to categorize it, to systemize it and explain it in language terms. The experience then becomes something of the mind, something in your memory. It becomes the part of you which is continuous, attached, linear and building.

Learning or being pointed in a direction.

Concerning logical practical emotional experiences we are partially taught how they work, how we work, what it all means and how to relate to people, places and things. We are trained in social behavior and told repeatedly what is right and what is wrong. When it comes to these seemingly more fleeting experiences which appear in multitude in every human being there is not many people even keeping in awareness that there actually is present this perception without the logical analytical mind and actually it is difficult for the mind to remember these glimpses, perhaps because the mind has nothing to compare it with. Why? We simply do not share about this or accept it as real, or a fact. It is a fact. We do have these experiences, every one of us, but we do not pay attention to them. They do not fit into something we easily can identify with. For those who have pondered upon these experiences it still seems like no one else is having them so they feel strange. We do not want to be different so we ignore these experiences that we are having. There is nothing wrong with what we are doing and nothing should be different. This is simply an observation of what is taking place. Is it possible to pay better attention to these states of altered awareness and to develop a more sensitized perceiving of them? What would be the point of doing so?

Talking about it or keeping quiet

We are incessantly trained to talk about and share about the experiences that we are having. The platforms we are are standing on as we chose our angle is based on the rules and moral of the society we live in. We learn what fits and what is accepted by the general norm. From the knowledge of this sharing we filter our experience and give importance to what we are able to identify with, to what is accepted by our culture. There is a whole lot of feelings, images, sensations and thoughts in our experience that we are not paying attention to. They are simply being filtered away. When you start to pay more attention to the whole lot of impulses and ways of perceiving that is available to you in the moment, it it might still not be so easy to share with others about this. Firstly we might not have the words to describe it and more than often people will not understand what you are talking about. This is a rather lonely way to take and it is almost exclusively inward in silence and freed from the need to be projected to others through our ego. It is a way of silent investigation and enquiry into the nature of our behavior and the rules of the universe. When we do share about what we “see” we must be prepared for strange looks and judgements.

We can read and intellectually understand as knowledge the things we are talking about here, but to truly investigate it in ourselves, studying ourselves deeply, inwardly we can personally see these things and validate, understand or even disagree from our own experience. In this way we make the knowledge our own. Not just something we have gotten from someone else. This requires dedication to ourselves and curiosity to understand the world by understanding ourselves. It is not the easiest way to go and can often be quite painful, but at the same time greatly rewarding and enormously interesting.

For those of us who are interested in the perspectives of life as a whole, of the connection of all things and the movements and rules in the universe, studying ourselves deeply and inwardly can be as rewarding or more as going to space in a shuttle. To focus on these more subtle movements and, in lack of a better word, states through meditation, which I believe is nothing more then a focused and concentrated mind, we can observe the things that are available to us now and through cracking the codes we can become more sensitized to what is more subtle. It does not mean to live a crazy eccentric life, or to separate yourselves from your normal life, but it does mean to dedicate yourself to the truth as you experience it, not as you or others think it.