HAVE YOU HAD A PEAK EXPERIENCE?
Eckhart
Tolle calls it "The Power of Now", Abraham Maslow calls
it a peak experience. It is a desirable experience to attain.
Maslow gives us some idea how to recreate these feelings in a
piece called Experiential Knowing. Here are some characteristics
of the fullest and richest experiences.
The
good experiencer gets utterly lost in the present. There is no
sense of past or future, one lives in the "now." Nothing
ahead, nothing behind, only the present moment.
Consciousness
of self is non-existent. It is as if our humanhood dissolves into
the nothingingness of the moment.
The
experience is timeless. There is no sense of place or history
or society or connection with anything else. It stands alone in
its uniqueness.
There is a merging of persona and experience, a kind of melting
together of the person experiencing with that which is experienced.
There
is an innocence about the experience, a receptivity without questioning.
There are no filters through which the experience needs to move,
any idea of what the experience should be or what is normal or
expected. There is a presence in which whatever happens is received
just as it is presented.
There
is no value judgment placed on the experience. No important-not
important placement, no essential or expendable.
There
is no fear. There are no other selfish considerations to set up
a defense. The experience can flow unencumbered.
Experience
happens without being made to happen. There is no striving, willing
or straining. There is a peaceful acceptance.
The
mind stills. There is no selecting or rejecting, no evaluating.
There is trust, a willingness to let it happen, surrendering to
the experience in full faith.
All
of this adds up to setting our humanhood aside and immersing ourselves
in the peace and wholeness of the present moment.
Source:
"Experiential Knowing" by Abraham H. Maslow, "Inner
Knowing" edited by Helen Palmer
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