UNUSUAL EXPERIENCES

When a person has experiences that differ from the everyday, they get surprised or frightened, and perhaps even confused. These experiences can be so surprising and so "baffling" that one might not even willingly communicate them to others. 

This is because they themselves are not sure what it is they went through, and perhaps also because it is so "unbelievable" that they think it is better not to share it with others, who might not understand or might question the experience itself or their state of mind. Therefore, they do not want to "expose" themselves to all of this, because what they experienced is "real" to them and holds great significance.

Yet, a strange uncertainty can surround this experience regarding what actually happened and how it was even possible for it to happen. One looks for an explanation. Something rational. Something that makes this very special moment they experienced acceptable. They are looking for an explanation for something that is not rational and cannot be explained with "common sense."

If a person goes through such or similar experiences multiple times, they begin to adopt a different stance toward them. They do not necessarily look for logical explanations; they do not try to bring them down to an "everyday" level, but instead keep them on another level—the level where things that cannot be explained by reason reside, such as love.

If these experiences are so interesting to them that they wish they wouldn't just reoccur "randomly," they begin to search for ways to induce or repeat them. They try to recall what caused them to happen. What circumstances were present at that moment? What were the external and internal conditions?

In fact, many people probably have such experiences, but perhaps for the reasons mentioned above, these remain on a personal level and do not enter the public consciousness. This, however, prevents or hinders the understanding and "acceptance" of such interesting, unusual experiences.

We could also call them "spiritual" experiences, but since we do not communicate about them, we do not really know what to call them 😊

However, there are communities where these experiences are highly valued, and therefore one can openly share them with others. Such are, for example, the communities of Silo's Message, where unusual and transformative experiences are of particularly great value.

In this insightful video, you can better understand all of this, where Silo talks about it with his friend, Daniel Zuckerbrot:

These experiences prompt a person to start searching within themselves, looking for the meaning of life, to ask questions about everything that is important, such as suffering, overcoming it, death, etc. In these communities, not only can one talk openly about all of this, but there is also an opportunity for a person to experience and deepen these things if they wish.