When the Inner Eye Opened - A Journal by Christophe Allain

“I learned to meditate at a yoga class. Since I only sleep on my stomach and can never fall asleep on my back, I would lie in bed and meditate until midnight every night. This went on for six months—until something incredible happened. There was an explosion, and I felt like I’d been hooked up to a nuclear power plant! Whereas up to then my body had felt well-defined, just the flesh, the hair, nothing beyond that, now it was no longer a point of reference for me: I felt like a flood of energy dressed in a body. And the world outside had completely transformed overnight. The trees which I had never taken notice of before looked like multi-colored diamonds shining in the sun. I don’t remember ever seeing these colors before, nor such intense light in the sky. I thought I’d gone crazy, and I ran to a psychologist and told him everything, thinking he’d give me some pills or something. But after more than twenty sessions, he concluded that I had no known mental disease. So I turned my back on theory and ideas emanating from society, and decided that from then on, my path would be to experiment with the universe myself in search of the Divine, so blindingly obvious and yet invisible to us…”