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This, I believe, is the kind of experience that Tai Chi, and many other forms of meditation, are
attempting to attain. Eiseley's idea of the sunlight and air merging with the body are prevalent in Tai
Chi's forms and philosophy, which detail the drawing in of energy from the universe around us. The
ultimate goal of Tai Chi, for me at least, is to attain a state of complete synergy with the universe,
allowing energy not just to be cycled through your body, but to allow the universe's Chi to flow directly
through it, like a conduit. As Eiseley said, this experience could seem to take eons, you would feel the
entire world around you and your connection to it all.
As Huxley said, this experience would be one of inestimable value, although he claimed it
would be best for intellectuals, I believe this kind of experience is once-in-a-lifetime and that all
humans should attempt to achieve this state, whether through meditation or prayer or whatever else will
help you to open yourself to the rest of the universe, to allow the universe's energy to flow through you,
everyone should at least try to see the world without perceiving it.