The world is full of accounts of people who have experienced a heavenly light, and have communed with the divine.
Category: First Visions
Unbounded Space “First Vision” Account
"Sometimes in meditation I experience deep silence, being in an unbounded empty space. Sometimes I see light in that empty space like the sun."
Heaven’s Cradle “First Vision” Account
"One day during my [meditation] my head became full of light and the room was full of sunlight (and yet it was totally cloudy outside). It was beautiful. I felt healed, safe and full of nature's forgiveness. After meditation I lay down for a few minutes and I felt as if I was lying gently in heaven's cradle."
Blazing Light “First Vision” Account
My experience of stillness, or transcendental consciousness, has become vast and universal, often blazing with intensely brilliant, even blinding, light. Words cannot even begin to describe the intensity of bliss and the tenderness of emotions that not only swell in my heart, but penetrate into every pore of my being. Is this an experience of God?
Increasing Pleasantness “First Vision” Account
During the first few years after I started meditating, the experience of deep silence was absorbing and charming. I would see a dark vastness in front of me. In time this darkness sometimes transformed into a field of brilliant light.
Suhrawardi’s “First Vision” Account
Suhrawardi's "First Vision"