I want to share the most profound experience I have ever had. It only lasted 30 or 45 seconds and happened to me back in the early 1990's. There has not been a single day since I had this experience that I have not wondered how or why it happened, and I have yet to find anyone who can accurately or convincingly explain it.

After many years of searching, I think I may have found something that sounds like what I went through. It is called the "Kundalini" experience. I did nothing to trigger or induce the experience; it was totally spontaneous.

It was early morning and I had just dropped my son off at school. I was driving back home when I started to feel warmth in my solar plexus. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but the heat intensified rapidly to the point where I should have felt a tremendous amount of discomfort. But there was no discomfort at all.

The heat began to radiate out from the center and moved up my spine. Now things started to get really strange in a beautiful way. When I say beautiful, I mean I was experiencing another kind of consciousness, not another level of consciousness. I will try to describe it.

My awareness was somehow intensified to a level that is not humanly possible. "I" was the awareness I was experiencing and that is the part that I find frustrating to communicate. I had the realization that I was everywhere at the same time...and I mean everywhere. I knew that everything is perfect and happening according to some divine plan, regardless of all the things we see as wrong with the world.

Lastly, I was experiencing a powerful form of euphoria. It was like someone had peeled back the curtain of this reality and given me a brief look at Heaven itself. Keep in mind that all this happened in the matter of 30 or 45 seconds. The experience was so profound that it left a life long impression on me.

This experience never happened to me before this, I did not do anything to cause it and it has never happened again. Now, this may not sound so impressive on paper, but I can assure you that the actual experience was what I can only describe as divine. I believe that it was grace from some higher force that allowed me to have the experience. Why me? I do not know and I would not presume to know.

Carl Turner

Posted 1-12-09