I have been a spriritually curious person since childhood. However, it was not until I had a DMT breakthrough did I truly understand the death experience. I felt consciousness seperate from my body and experienced disassociation, where your body is just matter, no different from your surroundings.
After that experience, my life has been immersed in finding my real self - the self that persists eternally - the source that existed before my birth in this body and the one that will still persist after my body's death.
Yesterday, I had a very interesting experience that confirmed my belief in this real self. I was smoking cannabis with some friends, listening to some music when I started dwelling on the nature of the self. I reminded myself of my true self, and tried looking at everything as part of the same Self. After a few minutes of meditation, I felt my "real self", seperate from the mind-ego, and watched my real self (or conciousness) expand and take precedence over my ego. Time and space dissolved, and it became apparent that the normally perceived world is maya/illusion manifested by conciousness. It was truly fascinating and yet at the same time very humbling to my ego, watching it become just an immesearubly small manifestation of a much larger universe/Self.
It was just at this point that my friend sitting adjacent to me sort of started freaking out, saying "Holy crap what is happening to me, this cannot be"

. I guess that he had also experienced an awakening due to the group setting!
Much love!
This is it. This is what it was. This is what it will be.