Real experiences of the Monad from historical sources, literature, and the personal experiences of the author. The experiences share most of the following ten characteristics:

1) The experience begins in a state of non-duality or Oneness.

2) It seems to take place in a boundless space of pure warm light.

3) Everything is stripped away—no more ego, striving, or worldly attachments.

4) The basic dichotomy of “I” versus “other” is transcended.

5) There is a sense of original self or primal state of being in which just your pure centerless awareness or “default” presence remains.

6) It is “beyond thoughts” or exhibits the inability to have thoughts, and because of this, there is no fear.

7) There is a sense of eternity with no experience of time.

8) There is a feeling of complete knowledge or direct gnosis of reality.

9) The overall feeling is one of infinite security, serenity, and satisfaction.

10) In describing the experience to others, it remains paradoxical and ineffable. For a more information, please refer to my book "The Mind of the Universe: The Monad and You!" This video narrated by Cooper Monroe.

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The Basic Monadic Meditation from my book "In the Mind of the Universe: The Monad and You!" https://amzn.to/489vk5H Read by Scott McCain.

BASIC MONADIC MEDITATION INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1) Disengage Physically. Delink from the world by turning off your electronic attachments to the outside world. Find a quiet room or put in earplugs and sit in a chair; don’t lie down. Keep your back comfortably straight and fold your hands in your lap. Be still. Focus on the feeling that your fully relaxed body is immovable in time and space. Time is slowing down and then stops; your awareness is focused on the static moment before you. Now, just relax and cultivate the silence in your body for a while.

Step 2) Disengage Mentally. Extricate yourself mentally from the world by shutting off the verbal stream of consciousness in your own mind. With your eyes either closed or half-opened gazing in front of you, shut down your senses and ignore any outside noises. Remember, thoughts are things that accumulate and clutter up the mind. Halt that process, and just stop thinking—break the chain of thoughts—but still remain aware. Become comfortably numb to the world, and then remain stubbornly in this immovable, timeless state of mind. Pay attention only to the silence it creates.

Step 3) Monadic Awareness. Just continue resting in this timeless present moment and try to keep your mind quiet and immovable. Try not to be self-conscious about what you are doing, including any expectations about this exercise. Don’t actively think of anything—if a thought intrudes, don’t follow it out. Let thoughts dissolve on their own. Instead of thinking, focus on the feeling of empty awareness—your “original mind” free from all content and distractions. Just Be—just exist without thoughts in the pure monadic light that surrounds you. You are becoming only pure awareness. You are That. You are That-You-Are, and nothing else.

Modern scientists use the term “singularity” rather than "monad" when referring to monadic structures or events, although the word “monad” is still used when referring to the ontological and mathematical roots of science. As we shall see, that is historically how the idea of a monadic universe originated in science. Technically, a singularity is the point at which a mathematical function takes on an infinite value. In consciousness studies and psychology, it is the basic characteristic that defines consciousness. In astrophysics, it is a point of zero volume with infinite density and gravity. The Big Bang Theory postulates that our universe emerged from such a singularity and that before this event, space and time did not exist. That means the Big Bang itself took place at no place and no time, although by measuring the distance and velocities of expanding galaxies, the age of the universe has been calculated to be 13.77 billion years.