Years ago when I heard about the ability of mystics to step in and out of MER, to invoke MER at will, I was skeptical. I still am.
Nowadays however I realise I do have experiences of being suddenly, spontaneously taken into Reality.
I feel my whole body beginning to shake uncontrollably, Reality enthusing* Itself into me again, abandoning human body and brain, making ‘I’ helpless.
So, in my case, Reality comes spontaneously, without my bidding. Each time It overcomes me like this is when I’m trying to relive, explain my original MERs either to myself or others. I don’t invoke Reality deliberately.
My more recent MERs were different to my initial MERs. Then my human identity was taken back into Reality from which it came. There was nothing biological, anthropological, or human – no senses, no brain, no body, no mind, no creations of mind, physical or mental, and no names.
There was no more me. I simply was, overwhelmingly humbled by a joy beyond human conception, a length, depth and breadth of knowledge unknown to mankind, complete belonging to all things, known and unknown – my true identity in forever.
But the experiences that engulf me now, while just as sudden and unbidden, are different. They engulf, ‘enthuse’ me without revealing Reality again, then disappear as quickly as they come, leaving me as if mentally and physically emptied but advanced somehow, renewed.
It’s as if my biological evolution has been progressed to another stage of evolution.
Intuition tells me these all-consuming episodes are not triggered by me.
They are an immediate, automatic initiative by Reality itself. New awarenesses, developments, validations, are given.
When evidence of some new spiritual development appears in me it seems Reality is moving me on …
There is no ‘stepping in and out of Reality at will’ so far as I’m concerned. It’s the other way round.
*Ancient Greek ἔνθεος (“possessed by a god”). Wordsense dictionary.
Mystical Experiences of Reality 