In 2017 I read the book Collision with the Infinite by Suzanne Segal. It seems that she had enlightenment and it was the same as that in Lifewave. This book and the book One Taste by Ken Wilber showed me what the Lifewave enlightenment is. Yarr and his Adepts didn't seem to want to explain it to anyone in the 1980s.
I asked Google Gemini to summarise the states of consciousness that she went through. I don't believe she got to enlightenment by the same path as John Yarr and the Lifewave adepts. Only the third of the three states of consciousness is the one known in Lifewave.
1. The Witness State
This was the immediate aftermath of the "collision" she experienced on the bus. In this stage, her personal sense of "I" was gone, but a detached "witness" remained. She felt as though she was watching her body and mind from a location outside of herself. This period was characterized by intense terror and fear, as she was a conscious observer of a body that no longer felt like her own. This state persisted for months, and she sought professional help to understand it.
2. The Dissolution of the Witness
This second phase occurred after the "witness" itself disappeared. With no sense of personal identity or a detached observer, she entered a state of complete "no-self." All vestiges of a familiar "me" were gone. This was an even more frightening experience for her, as she no longer had even the detached observer to give her a reference point. She felt an even "heightened level of fear" and entered a period of continuous psychological distress. Despite this, her mind and body continued to function unimpaired.
3. The Realization of the Vastness
After a decade of suffering and seeking answers, Segal came to understand her experience within the context of spiritual traditions. She realized that the "emptiness" she had been experiencing was not an absence of something, but rather "the very substance of everything." She renamed this emptiness "the vastness." In this final stage, she accepted her state, and the fear gave way to a sense of freedom and joy. She began to see the world not as an external place, but as the expression of this vastness, which she came to understand was her true nature.
Below is a quotation from her book.
"In the midst of a particularly eventful week, I was driving north to meet some friends when I suddenly became aware that I was driving through myself. For years there had been no self at all, yet here on this road, everything was myself, and I was driving through me to arrive at where I already was. In essence, I was going nowhere because I was everywhere already. The infinite emptiness I knew myself to be was now apparent as the infinite substance of everything I saw."
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