My OBE Journey Into The Dark

By Gordon Rosenberg

This is about an amazing experience I had several years ago which I decided to post in case it may be helpful to others going through similar aspects of spiritual emergence today.

On that early evening, I had a very strange dream – except I wasn’t dreaming and I wasn’t asleep. Or I wasn’t sure which part was “dream” and which part was “reality”. Clearly, I took a trip beyond this reality and felt very changed by the experience!

Entering Into the Darkness

I was meditating and felt myself dropping deeply into a familiar trance state. But this time I kept going, to a place I don’t think I’d ever been before, at least not in this lifetime. In the beginning, I was aware I was still in human body, but that I was also going to a strange, dark place. I think I never did completely lose consciousness, but went so far that I felt I was losing contact with earthly reality. To a place from which I couldn’t return until it was time. A part of me was certain I wasn’t coming back at all.

Crossing Into a Blissful Void Place

At this point, there was literally no body! I had no idea of whom or what I was. As if I was drifting in a sea of consciousness that had no physical anchor of any sort. I believe I was experiencing all the terror one may typically experience when actually dying – unless one has done his or her work in advance and is ready to make such a crossing relatively terror-free.

Finally, when it seemed I could go no further into this darkness, I returned to physical consciousness. About two hours had passed! On the one hand, I felt as if I had willed my return. But upon deeper realization, I believe it was supposed to happen that way, as if there were no further to go yet. I had crossed over into the complete unknown and eventually came to realize there is nothing there to fear! It became extremely peaceful actually. I felt I would like to go there again – next time hopefully without all the fear on the way!

Some Part Was Surely Dying

I believe that night I felt the terror of the ego being torn away from the soul, or from its perceived connection with the soul. Similar perhaps to what many have reported during near death experiences, and perhaps certain hallucinatory experiences. Was it a kind of ego death? I think so. The strong sense that at least a part of me was leaving. It came at a time when I was doing major “release” work and had been experiencing significant changes on both the body and soul levels.