It Started with a BANG

Wouter, 53, Belgium

BANG!

As if thunder had struck. Or as if a fighter jet had just broken through the sound barrier. An ear deafening BANG sound had signalled we just entered a new “situation”. A new reality.

No-one may have heard the BANG. No-one had seen it. But without a shadow of a doubt I knew it’s been there, and that something drastically had changed. Unannounced. Unexpected.

All of a sudden I found myself in a totally different reality/world.

To others, that new world may have seemed exactly the same as before the BANG.

But to me, the new reality had felt totally different.

I now felt as if I found myself inside some kind of a bubble. And the BANG had announced my entrance into it.


The world outside the bubble, and before the BANG, had felt as if I had been sitting in a space rocket that had just been launched and that had been frantically gaining in speed, racing past every object it encountered, and its rocket boosters producing ever louder screaming noise.

The world inside the bubble, and after the BANG, could not have felt more different. It felt like I had all of a sudden entered this huge bubble of weightlessness where gravitational and body-tormenting G-forces had no longer any impact. Those forces had all of a sudden vanished. Simple as that.

The world inside the bubble felt as if my space rocket had finally left Earth’s gravitational pull; as if the screaming rocket boosters had been left behind and replaced by an ear deafening silence. I was now bathing in absolute Weightlessness. Peacefulness. Spaciousness.

The world inside the bubble was a world in which time seemed to have stopped existing, or at least where it was running at a slower pace. It was a world of flow instead of freeze. Of treading instead of walking. A world in which the heart beats regularly and at a much slower pace than before; in which the breath flows instead of beats, and in which annoying bird chatter had transformed into a heavenly harmonious bird orchestra performance.

In this new reality, the scenery visible from the rocket’s cockpit was not rushing by anymore. It was even as if I had left the cockpit, and as if I was no longer wearing a space suit either.

I was floating around weightlessly and while doing so I was harmoniously connected with every single “thing” around me that was doing exactly the same — floating around in the bubble: the flowers, the bees, the butterflies. But also the cows. The ducks. The swans. The caterpillars. The snails. 
No “thing” was any more or any less than the other. There was an absolute sense of unity and equality between me and everything else. In hindsight, there probably wasn’t even a “me” anymore.


This is the description of a profound experience I had ten years ago in 2014, age 43, when I was hiking on a trail in nature, all by myself. It happened when I was just a few weeks home with a burn-out/bore-out. I was totally sober. Had not ingested alcohol or any other drug.

Making Sense of the BIG BANG

For years I tried to make sense of this “BANG” experience. It was so profound and so exceptional while at the same time it was more “familiar” or more “home” than anything else I had experienced before. By a huge margin.

At the time, even my most experienced guides wouldn’t say much more than that it had been a “peak” experience. Now I know from ancient traditions it was an experience that simply cannot be explained with words or understood by the mind. It has to be experienced to truly “get it”. But it has been documented extensively in old and even recent scriptures and traditions.

One tradition calls it Samadhi. Another refers to it as Satori. But the same phenomenon is also referred to as Kundalini Awakening, indeed. Or Ego Death, Unity Consciousness, Avatar Consciousness, Christ Consciousness, experiencing Heaven on Earth, 5D, the eternal Flow State, non-duality, or Sacred Secretion…

Jill Bolt Taylor would say that my right brain hemisphere got activated and that the left brain hemisphere got de-activated (relatively speaking), and that as a result I was experiencing Nirvana. Eckhart Tolle would agree but he would call Nirvana “being in the NOW”. And Damon T Berry might say that I had entered the Stargate into the Sun.

Still another way of putting it is that I had entered a state of consciousness that I now know is similar to what people experience in a Near Death Experience (NDE), during a psychedelic trip or in other Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STE). During such experiences, very often a sensation of Oneness is experienced with all that is. Peacefulness and deep Love as well.

Two things struck me the most about the BANG experience, because they felt so “impossible” from the perspective I had been living from up till that time.

(1) The sensation of weightlessness — I was wide awake and walking. Through nature. My feet were on the ground during the experience as firm as they had been before it. And yet, there was this levitation-like sensation of weightlessness.

(2) I was in a space where everything felt as One. Everything was utterly connected to one another. The surprising thing being that I, as a “human”, was NOT more than anything else around me — the bees, the flowers, the plants, the trees, the butterflies…

This sensation of Oneness is a clear indication of non-duality and thus Unity or Christ Consciousness, I learned afterwards.

The sensation of Lightness or Weightlessness can easily be related to what is called Enlightenment in seemingly very different contexts. “Seeing the Light” might be very similar to “Feeling Light” — “light” as opposed to “heavy” indeed. When we feel light like this, the Light can come through. And we are more likely to see The Light.

Two questions have come forward since that experience: (1) Have I experienced something even remotely close to this BANG experience, afterwards? And (2) If so, what did that experience look like and can other people get to that sensation or state as well?

I have come close to experiencing something like the BANG experience a few times, most strongly in two seemingly very different types of situations. The fact that these two situations seem very different has nonetheless guided me in inferring the underlying mechanism behind it. And that mechanism may help other people benefit from my experience:

(1) The first type of situation is balancing in a meditative kind a way, on a unicycle or Onewheel. That is, subtly engaging the center of gravity. When doing so, one literally gets to experience this sensation of “floating”. Or the feeling of weightlessness.

(2) The second is during a Twin Flame encounter that came right out of left field.

Making it easy to connect the dots: 
All these experiences are about (self) love, which by itself will not come as a surprise, unless perhaps for the balancing experience. 



The less common inference that I am adding here is that self-love has everything to do with engaging our center of gravity — releasing tension in our belly area.

A further implication is that accessing those altered states of awareness, the state of bliss and even enlightenment itself are fundamentally about engaging our center of gravity — even though enlightenment is typically and predominantly associated with the brain/mind.

The link with our center of gravity may be less obvious but one interesting implication is that it provides us with a very tangible thing to “do” (or not do..?) and an entrance point into these states that is accessible also to people who might not be into anything “spiritual”.

[The argument is not that anyone engaging their center of gravity would right away get the full fledged BANG experience in exactly the same way as I have. Only the Universe has control over the degree of the experience]

In our current society, the mainstream healing channels may not steer us in the direction of the belly yet — society in general is still steering us away from it — but ancient traditions have for a long time. And we know that Kundalini Awakening starts at the base of the spine. And let that Kundalini Awakening now be the theme of this website.


Our society will return to that wisdom more and more in the future, at least as long as it is moving in the desired direction. And this website might be helping with that.