It is not like i am a dedicated and knowledgeable in meditation.

Oh, i’ve tried a couple of times, even bought a CD that supposedly guided me, with appropriate soothing music, of course, to that zone putting me touch with the…nether world?

i felt rather foolish lying there on my back on the living room rug with this guy, also with a smoothing voice, directing me to think of a special place that would connect me. He gave me breathing directions. Perhaps i was trying too hard. i think it was my favorite place being my briar patch: thank you, Uncle Remus.

Over two weeks, i tried numerous times.

Didn’t work.

The CD with its special cover and written instructions is somewhere in a cabinet somewhere in my garage.

About a year ago or so, i woke up one morning, ready to hop out of bed, although my hopping now is quite a bit slower and less joyous, more like labor. For some reason, i didn’t. i just laid there on my back. i closed my eyes with no intention of going back to sleep. i was thinking about friends and family. Then, i just quit thinking.

Calmness flowed over me. i felt like i was floating. i was at peace, although i wasn’t thinking about my peace nor my calmness nor my floating. i tried to maintain this wonderful feeling. Bad idea. It left. My best but still inadequate description of those moments is tranquility.

Over the year, the experience has recurred, usually not lasting as long as the first one. i told a psychologist about this. He told me that kind of stuff doesn’t happen lying in bed.

But it did.

i’m not trying to tell anyone to try it. Trying didn’t have anything to do with it. i’m not interpreting what it meant in any kind of religious sense. i just felt like telling some folks about the experience.

And i hope it happens again.