Hello, Annija, and Welcome to Steemit.
I first read your "IntroSelf" post, and that led me to this post. I found this very interesting -- not to mention very well written.
Your experience is fascinating. It's very interesting that you had had no knowledge or experience of OBE or even spirituality.
I loved your phrase "Time felt confusing to me." If we read that in light of the understanding that we are in essence spiritual beings, then, yes, TIME will be confusing for all of us. But in our present incarnation, we slowly get used to time, and by the time we are 4–5 years old, we believe time is normal.
But even Einstein told us that time is NOT normal. Time is one of the aspects of the 4th dimension (space-time), and time is not just a linear progression moving through us, from the past to the future, at a steady rate. Time is flexible, and if we move at the speed of light, times stops.
Maybe, during your OBE, you were travelling close to the speed of light!
Anyway, thanks for your interesting post.
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p.s. Here's a very interesting post that I read the other day, and on which I wrote a few comments. You might find it interesting.... https://steemit.com/evolution/@gavvet/is-biological-evolution-a-ball-rolling-up-a-hill-all-by-itself#@majes.tytyty/re-michaeltzu-re-majestytyty-re-oldmariner-re-gavvet-is-biological-evolution-a-ball-rolling-up-a-hill-all-by-itself-20171127t030635529z
Thank you for your comment, feedback and suggestions, majes.tytyty!
Checked out that post, evolution is something my husband is currently deeply interested in! :) I'll get him to read it too.
Oh, it definitely felt like I am traveling at the speed of light. Especially when I was shooting back to my body.
Wow, it sounds like it was truly an amazing experience ... travelling at the speed of light.
As for out of body experiences (OBE), I tend to believe that many enlightened beings have a continuous OBE.
If, as they claim and as seems to be the case, if they have transcended the body and even the mind, then they are most likely in the spirit realm – or at least close to it. And if they are true "beings of light," can we not say that they are moving at the speed of light?
This experience only kick started a continuous chain of events and insights and helped me connect to my Higher Self.
What I have received and learned is that we simultaneously are here on Earth AND in the Spirit realm. In fact, we are simultaneously everywhere but it is only our consciousness and beliefs that keep us in a certain limited perspective. And there is nothing non-enlightening to spend this life actually grounding ourselves in our bodies, honoring them and doing all the amazing things that we can with this wonderful instrument. A lot of "enlightened" people teach to try and transcend the mind and body as if it is not Divine already. As if it wasn't our choice to come down here on Earth and have a human experience in the first place. Many of us so desperately try go go back - reach these higher realms, transcend the body. Why? Are we in denial of why we came here in the first place? Some might actually be really done with their mission and lessons over here so they can rejoin with their source consciousness (which, by the way, is always accessible to us) but some are purely misinterpreting spirituality and it's true meaning. Our bodies are divine instruments. We're here for good reasons. Time to ground our spirituality and root ourselves deeper into Mother Earth or also known as Gaia. We have things to do over here.
We are all beings of Light. So... speed of Light is accessible to all of us. Are we ready to tap into that? :)