Notes from the Dream (circa 1982-1986) - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

Lying there facing what I perceived asmeaninglessness, alone and disconnected fromeveryone and everything else.I remembered a passage from a book I hadstudied years ago,“The Shiva Sutras”:“The junction point or space between twothoughts is the true nature of the Self, whichis the space from which thoughts arise. Theabsorption of individual consciousness in thatspace is the awakening.”I began to do the old meditations of noticingthe space between two thoughts and the spacebetween two breathes.I thought why not try it yet again. I focusedon the space where the inhale became anexhale, and then the exhale became an inhale.Everything got quiet and then the spacebetween two thoughts emerged and appeared. Irealized that the space between was the same asthe emptiness or void “inside” the body.Somehow in a moment of clarity, through thespace between, (the space that had emerged),I decided to enter into this empty void in mybody like entering into a portal.Lying down in bed my body lurched.First spontaneously peeling back the layers40