It’s been on a long, weird, and often painful journey since the awakening happened in 2001, when I was 27. Sitting in that room in Mountain View, California (the city were Google’s HQ is) I focused my attention on my breath in the nostrils, bringing it back each time I noticed that it wandered.
Before long, the attention was centered in the forehead, calm, steady, still. Then, once the level of concentration crossed a critical…
