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PEAK EXPERIENCE

I was in the back of our van, driving across a flat plain in northern Italy. Another tour of Europe.   We'd been going for about five hours already.   I felt very calm, relaxed.   Through the window I could see the fields stretching off into the distance towards the sea beyond the horizon.    The grey-green landscape occasionally broken by a row of trees or the odd farmhouse.    It was a beautiful day.    The sky, unbroken by a single cloud, an endless   expanse of pale blue   in the late November sun.    A low lying mist hung above the ground giving the countryside an opaque, dreamlike quality. A feeling of wellbeing built up inside me and spread throughout my whole body.   Any notion of pain or the previous discomfort of sitting for so many hours had completely disappeared.    The feeling grew more and more intense until I was filled with a deep sense of joy.

I could no longer separate my immediate surroundings - the feel of the seat beneath me, the sound of the engine, the smell of the air through the open window, the passing countryside - all had   merged into one complete sense of wonder.    I seemed to be surrounded by pure white light , as if the boundaries between   my   body   and   the   outside   world   had disappeared.    I could no longer tell where the inside stopped and the outside began, as though, in that moment , I was a part of everything - Space and Time had ceased to exist.

My relationships to people, past and present, became clear.   All feelings of guilt , doubt , fear and confusion became meaningless as I understood a deeper sense of connection to everybody I had known.   I then knew that the joy and excitement which had engulfed every bit of my body and soul was an expression of pure, unbounded love.   I   was at peace.   As though I had come home to the place where I should always have been.

I don't know how long I was in that state for - it could have been hours or minutes or even a split second - it didn't matter. I had discovered a place of true being,   without   barriers   or   boundaries.      A   place   where everything comes from and everything goes back to.

There was just one problem - I could hardly walk anymore!