My Personal Experience

I will now speak from lived experience. This experience happened without hypnosis. One day, life gave me a straight flush and I had the unbelievable luck of experiencing about 20 seconds of life without a self. This was caused by following attention through awareness like a rabid dog (I did this as a meditation (I had been meditating for the past 10 months). I lost control of my body and mind after maintaining attention on where attention was, continuously (no interruption in knowing where attention was), for about 5 minutes (as attention autonomously moved/jumped around awareness). The experience of no self was life becoming gloriously effortless, absolutely automatic, and I experienced unbelievable peace (I felt really good, like being extremely cross faded with an extremely clear and peaceful mind). After this experience, I can say, with absolute certainty, that the reality of non-self and the need to dispel the insanity of self described in the schools of Buddhism is absolutely true! If one wishes to learn to practice Buddhism, I highly recommend the book, “The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment”. One of the many reasons I recommend this book is that the 3rd part of the book includes direct accounts of enlightenment arising out of people and what causes caused the effect of enlightenment.