How I Found Meditation

Labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral, France (Photo by author)

I tried meditation on and off for years without great consistency and, therefore, much benefit. Though there was that early experience when I first started out at about 20 when I believe my body and spirit began to separate. I could simultaneously feel the sensation of my body growing extremely heavy but another part becoming lighter and lighter, as if my consciousness was leaving my body. I was so terrified I stopped it and slammed myself back…