My Story:
Greetings everyone, very happy to have found this group. Had not seen this topic untill a few days ago, have been reading everyone's story, fascinating! I've deleted two other postings regarding my awakening in 1979, forty seven years ago.
Prior to the awakening, I'd experimented with seances in high school, progressing through college with Edgar Cayce, Ouspenski's "In Search of the Miraculous" and Sufi literature. By this time I was in Music School, and by age 25 had given it all up to become a professional (ha!) musician. I could feel/hear the spirituality that was in Music. It was an exciting time for me,
I had accompanied my then wife to a meeting/sales pitch for a group promoting confrontational reality. I'd read about it in Psychology Today a few months before, I asked if I could tag along. We arrived at a home, parked and went in. I counted 22-2…

That's very interesting about Eternity not being time-based. In my early days, I found a stone with a number 8 or eternity symbol scrawled on it and in that moment, I knew intuitively that I was connected to God. It felt so profound. I also had a dream in which my wall clock was replaced by a display of symbols (symbols being the language of Spirit). Reflecting on that dream made me more consciously aware of the illusion of time.
The physical body does age with time but the soul is eternal.