Egg slicer meditation intermediate 3-21-2018

The horizontal bands of light energy sliced through my body as I entered Aladdin’s closet.  I felt nothing but for a moment my body was separated into 18 stacked layers by some type of cosmic egg slicer.  Stunned I sat down and dropped into a meditative visualization.

Usually in meditation as I become aware of thoughts or sensations I acknowledge them and wait for them to dissolve on their own.  In this meditation each of the distractions was framed in a layer with other similar distractions. There was a layer for thoughts about what I would be doing later in the day, a layer for body twitches and itches and others.  I found that it was easier and lighter for me to hold open a space for the layers rather than wait for the distractions to dissolve. As my thoughts continued to concentrate and focus one-pointedly on following my breath that layer swelled. By not having to wait for one of the smaller distracting thoughts or layers to fully fall from my thoughts there was less chance, less time, for some other more attracting thought to grab and hold my attention.

Then the egg slicer returned but this time in a vertical slice rather than horizontal. The result was that I was now sliced into many multiple cubes of me. Again there was no sensation of the slicing and I remained whole with all of the cubes being both separate and holding together. As the cubes replaced the layers, each could maintain its own thought or sensation without pulling me so deeply into one that I forgot the others.

The slicer returned in both directions and the pieces of me got smaller and smaller as my body became completely energetic. At this point nothing could stick to me. This was no attachment to any thought, sensation, perception or visualization. I flowed into an impermanent continuous river of awareness. I sensed I was present in open space weightless and formless with a profound stillness. As soon as I noticed where I sensed I was in formless space I popped out of the visualization. As the echo of awe settled my breath was easy, slow and steady. Peacefulness was my only thought.

I intend to return to this layering meditation and explore. If you have any experience with this or thoughts please let me know.