Strange, everything I have ever read about cessation implies a "pop" where you in that instance and throughout the duration is totally and completely gone. There is no experience. The "magic" so to speak is after the sensation as you watch your mental "machinery" reconstitute itself and you see this process rather clearly.
My experience with meditation and shifts of consciousness does not entail any angels or incredulous experiences. Though the subjective experience would be hard to describe as anything but extraordinarily special. My guesstimate would be an experience of stress was reduced by 80-90%. So I would not be without it. But what few mention is that once you loose a massive load on your shoulders, gradually your sensitivity to what remains becomes enhanced. Eventually that remaining 10-20% feels like way more, thus there is "more work to be done".
Once you become incredibly focused, you might get what many would perceive as close to magic. Perhaps there also is this kind of level, but mostly it is simply that "insane" levels of perceptive abilities and absence of distractions enable you to notice all the small hints that you usually would miss. Thus one might perceive you to read peoples minds, but in reality you are just interpreting all their signals way better.
Where I previously identified exceptionally narrowly to my body and specifically my head, it is pretty trivial now to shift into a mental model where we are all like cells in a body. Brothers and sisters that either improve the workings of the totality or break it. In the first instance it results in less suffering for all, in the latter more suffering.
Strange, everything I have ever read about cessation implies a "pop" where you in that instance and throughout the duration is totally and completely gone. There is no experience. The "magic" so to speak is after the sensation as you watch your mental "machinery" reconstitute itself and you see this process rather clearly.
My experience with meditation and shifts of consciousness does not entail any angels or incredulous experiences. Though the subjective experience would be hard to describe as anything but extraordinarily special. My guesstimate would be an experience of stress was reduced by 80-90%. So I would not be without it. But what few mention is that once you loose a massive load on your shoulders, gradually your sensitivity to what remains becomes enhanced. Eventually that remaining 10-20% feels like way more, thus there is "more work to be done".
Once you become incredibly focused, you might get what many would perceive as close to magic. Perhaps there also is this kind of level, but mostly it is simply that "insane" levels of perceptive abilities and absence of distractions enable you to notice all the small hints that you usually would miss. Thus one might perceive you to read peoples minds, but in reality you are just interpreting all their signals way better.
Where I previously identified exceptionally narrowly to my body and specifically my head, it is pretty trivial now to shift into a mental model where we are all like cells in a body. Brothers and sisters that either improve the workings of the totality or break it. In the first instance it results in less suffering for all, in the latter more suffering.