What was your enlightenment experience like?

It’s still going on. I suspect it will never end. There also seem to be many facets and dimensions to it, only some of which are approachable with words. I wrote about one phase of my experience here: Poetry by T.Collins Logan. See the second poem, “Today’s Libation.” That poem brushes up against many aspects of a persistent unfolding/awakening — and my attempts to express it. I could just as easily answer this question with “a deep and abiding silence,” or “a dense and seemingly endless cascade of aha moments,” or “being arrested by an intense clarity of what agape really is…that is, precisely what it looks like, and why it is the only remaining imperative, after the fires of gnosis have burned everything else away.” I think there are probably as many different expressions of this journey as their are stages in the journey…and my insight thus far is that those stages are infinite. Here is something I wrote after some spiritual adventures earlier in my life that I think captures a central theme in my own awakening (from my book The Vital Mystic):

The Cliff

With all of my being I scrambled and trembled and strove
climbing ever higher
but the most detailed maps, the most disciplined techniques
and the careful advice of sages widely revered
did not avail me – for I could not reach my goal, or even
comprehend it
until, one day, with unexpected insight
I just let go
and began an endless falling into God


— My 2 cents.

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