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comment by JackTheBandit

    Up to the "voiding the void" part, yeah, that's as accurate as you're going to get without trying it for yourself. There's definitely some burners I know that trip waaaay too often (and it shows), maybe that's what he means by saying "letting go of the void"? Like, not trying to regenerate some sublime experience that is dependent on particular circumstances or something?

Yeah, I feel you on the burners who have tripped a bit to often in search of something or an experience. People who've gone that way seem to insist that whatever is happening has some sort of expected script and experience. I think they're the ones being referenced by the idea of being trapped in the experience and not experiencing any further "voiding the void." I don't want to sound like I'm making any definitive claims, but that's the best I can do to articulate it.

Like that recent story of the CNN reporter who recently went through an experience. In her story, she mentions the sort of stereotypical super hippie/burner female and how the shamen confided in the reporter that she is unable to make progress because she is insistent on what the experience should be and entail so there is no revelation for her, but illusion.