The Swordfish

An infinite lapis blue ocean stretched around in all directions. I was lost in the depths of the sea holding my breath. No surface to seek, no way to tell what is up, the sea did swirl. 

As I began to relax, the turbulence slowed to a stop. When I could see a shadow approaching ahead of me through the waters. A long spear and a brilliant flash, it narrowly missed my soul. 

My first guide, a spirit of the sea, a great swordfish revealed to me as an ancient friend. We swam and danced in the deep lapis abyss, until the time for fun was done, it said with one glance. 

So I took ahold of its mighty sail, making a sharp turn and beginning to rise, and so we sped, up and up. Then a light like the sun could be seen, as if from great depths, shimmering and twinkling, rippling silver waves emanating from a beating, glowing golden heart. 

Up we soared and broke through into the black sky, now twirling and spinning up unto high. When the spirit turned back and dove into the waters, but upwards I fell towards the sun. A moment I'd seen again and again. I heard a deep voice wishing me luck, and the calm of the sea returned unto me. Higher I sped, and the sun's size grew. I felt the warmth of summer as a calm gentle breeze warming my soul to its very core. 

The giant white light grew and grew, until I fell through. Plunging into the calm white void, all dissolved into peace, and that was the first time I passed through the gate. 

I was blinded by light and awoke to the sun again, haloed in clouds. I was laying on a mushroom, more than 100 meters wide, staring up into the sky. 

And so I was Alice, fallen into this place. A space beyond reason, where dreams grew as flowers and danced in the day, and I knew where I was. The world in between, where all souls go to rest before they incarnate again. An infinite plane, worlds upon worlds, all stretched out together, in an infinite spherical continuum of thoughts, hopes and fears. 

When I heard someone calling me back to our world, the singing of atoms, all playing and spinning. So I slipped back into my body, somewhere ago, and was back in the room where I was first told to close my eyes. To sit and just listen to what was inside. I found a universe beyond understanding, from which all laws were derived. Of nature and humans, the rules here governed all. Absolute, yet firm as a cool summer breeze, all fell into place, all in such grace. From the soil of this 'verse, out of the work of our effort, was the reason all of this did grow. Our furtle effort becomes the roots of our dreams. Blooming into our destiny, from the seed of a thought, planted in terra. 

I opened my eyes and I knew, I'd be back to this place a great many times, and it proved to be true.

That was my first experience with meditation.