"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.