Cycling Epiphany — Transcendental Boogie Experience Trove EP 13
Guaranteed AI-Free experiential recollections and musings on the Nature of (my) consciousness
It happened during a curious bike-ride through the English Garden on the way to work. Weather conditions: a beautiful day, clouds receding, wet grass glistening after the night’s Rain, as the brightness Returns. Warmth increasing, a feeling of growth and rising momentum. Coming around a bend I felt like I passed into an alternative state. Time distends, flow state ensues, entering a rolling portal, unseen, subtle.
In an extremely short amount of time, somewhere between an instant and a moment, colours became more vivid, intense and saturated, the greens more present and fresher, everything more crisp as though it was rendered in ultra-high definition whereas previously it was a mere thumbnail sketch, a low resolution version at a wimpy 20 frames per second.
This extended present (both senses of the word intended) only lasted about the time it took to take a couple of curves at a good clip but I felt that I had all the time in the world no just to ponder the scene but also to let my thoughts run free.
Not sure how I came to it, probably influenced by a book I read postulating about what Jesus might have gotten up to during the years of his life not accounted for in the Bible, I got thinking about how it might have been if the loaves in the last supper were infused with psychedelic mushrooms. Were the words then spoken from the heart in the midst of an epiphany? This is my body, this is my blood, the fruiting bodies of the mycelium as aspects of mother earth expressing herself, our Gaia. Jesus realising that we not only have the heavenly father in us but that we are all simultaneously of the earth, we are all expressions of the divine life-giving planet.
Is communion then a vehicle through which one can realise the interconnectedness of all things which are permeated with the one life force? Meditating on that thought may provide a chance for a personal epiphany.
I see an epiphany as a portal through which consciousness May traverse the multiverse. A portal not necessarily requiring a physical thing like a gate. Maybe some physical portals are of such a nature that they facilitate a sense of awareness in us that allows us to transcend (space and time)? I’m wondering if anyone could ‘access‘ a Portal or does it necessitate certain capabilities in the individual? Is the portal doing the work or is the person passing through it?
I’m not at all sure if any of that works as a concept, on reflection it does seem a bit of a ramble, not particularly tight, but at the time it seemed to make perfect sense, in that strange and beautiful interlude during my commute to the office.
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Episode 4: Vipassana — Don’t Get Attached!
Episode 5: Vipassana — Demons at the Door
Episode 6: Vipassana — Deceleration of Time then Moving Back in Time
