beyond dreaming...(far beyond)

Did anyone ever reached the state of Samadhi or Turiya?

Hmm, turiya? what is that? see link:
swamij.com/om.htm

I am not sure I am on the same wave length here as I have never heard the terms and that article was a little mind boggling. Oh and I dont do chanting or anything but I do some light meditation.

However …I did have this strange thing last week where I seemed to have 4 concious’s
One was the thoughts and feelings of my physical body and was only aware of itelf. Then I seemed to have another me hovering a few feet above myself who I could feel and think for just as clearly who was aware of and knew the thoughts of the physical one. Then I had another concious aware it was a swirling energy streak who knew about itself and the thoughts of the other two. Then most bizzarely I had a 4 th that just seemed to be a thought and it was aware of all of them and all their thoughts independantly but at the same time.

Do you think this was a state similar to Turiya. It has had me intrigued?

Worth mentioning …I am also having trouble with NOT projecting out of my body wether awake or asleep. I have done nothing to induce this either, and when I have gone out…I dont have a body…I am invisible. Something strange is going on with me…that is for sure. I have written about the projection problem in Trippers LD Diary (pg 2) if you want to have a read.

Quite a nice LD diary you have there, it seems you experienced some interesting stuff. You might want to look at Robert Bruce’s site: astralpulse.com he knows alot about OBE’s. About the turiya thing…well i don’t chant either, i was trying to emphasise that the hindu/yoga’s have a concept of consciousness that includes multiple levels of consciousness and LD is just one of them on the way to ‘absolute consciousness’. I’m trying to map those levels and philosophise a bit about them hehe, Schemes! schemes! muahaha cram it into shemes:

Waking state
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hypnagogic state
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Lucid witnessing (dark grey void)
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Lucid dreaming
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Dream witnessing
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Transition stage
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Lucid sleeping (black void)
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Sleep witnessing
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Turiya

I don’t think there are much people in the West who have reached turiya. Some could have seen a tiny glimpse of it through mystical experiences of total wholeness, unity and the dissolving of the Ego.
I think you’ll have better luck if you ask this question in India or Tibet :smile: These people often spend their whole life in search for turiya or rigpa (Tibetan equivalent of turiya), which is in fact only the first state of Enlightenment.