I once had an out of body experience. It was the most insane and beautiful thing that has ever happened to me, yet it frightened me in a way that nothing has ever frightened me before.

I had been very stressed out. My duties were piling up and I felt very unsatisfied with the direction of my life. Everything seemed out of control. Then it just happened…astral projection. It happened at this very moment in time, this year, this month and on this week day, as you read this, right now, as I sit pretending to type what you are reading. I was suddenly enveloped in a warm and yellow energy. Then I began my ascent.

I floated up and I could see you sitting below me, reading this. Then I could see the top of your head as I looked down from the ceiling. I passed through the roof and I saw the housing and the land and the lights below. Then I saw the roads and the rivers. Then I rose higher, yet I didn’t feel the cold. I rose straight up and looked down and saw the continents and oceans dwindling away. I saw the Earth shrink and the planets around the Earth pass by. The Earth was a blue marble spinning in our solar system.

As I floated farther away, I saw the solar system shrink and our sun was just a tiny light bulb in our galaxy. Our galaxy shrank into our universe, all of it a great ballet of colors and forms. I saw multiple universes shrink away until it was revealed to all exist contained in a strange diaphanous cube that sat on a giant white shelf amongst other diaphanous cubes that were all stacked like a child’s play blocks. I realized that none of it was moving. There was only perfect stillness. The Earth’s revolution, the spinning of the cosmos, and the breeze blowing against my face on a Spring day, is a complete illusion. Everything is always frozen still in space and time, and there is no past, present or future. Everything is still and unmoving.

And this is a great comfort to me.