Have you ever had any transcendental experience while meditating?

I time travelled to August 25, 2000. While meditating in the bath tub with the warm shower on me while crying in the dark with the fan on. Also I became invulnerable in a fight.

No. I am not Carlos Castaneda.

Also I can temporarily remove hunger when meditating.

Yes, in a few different types of practice.

I started with Reginald Rey , who teaches Buddhist techniques that used to be reserved for long-studying monks, to Westerners, because it’s been deemed that the West needs this. I think he does a very good job of making guided prana breathing meditation instructions for beginning Westerners. They can be extremely useful even without anything you might consider “transcendental”. The later earth breathing exercises I’ve practiced involved letting one’ consciousness fall down into the earth, which can be very useful for grounding and clearing out one’s state of being, and establishing connections.

I’ve meditated for 10 hours (with 3 ten minutes breaks) and by the end of it, I could feel a sense of euphoria

Dude!
Well, I fasted for 5 days. By the end of it I was kind of hungry.

Define Transandental Experience.

He kind of spells it out in the details.

Paramahansa Yogananda describes these things in his book, An Autobiography of a Yogi. As a boy in India, he was sent to regular English schools and then ashrams after school and in the summers. Each ashram had a head yogi and a different school of thought on enlightenment.

Many of these yogis had what we call a “hook” or gimmick to popularize his ashram. One could levitate, another was impossible to pick up on film, and so on. He describes these schools as essentially teaching the same things, but he felt the yogis had debased themselves and cheapened the discipline with what he termed as “parlor tricks”. He never claims that these stunts were impossible, or that the yogis were fakes, but he firmly states that the tricks had nothing at all to do with attaining any sort of enlightenment. He stated that it was just the opposite.

So, go figure.

I tend to go with P. Yogananda on this.

No. I’ve never actually levitated, that I know of, and I photograph rather well. I have reaped peace of mind and balance through meditation and am a great believer in the healing aspects of certain yoga breathing techniques.

But I’ve experienced no magic.

Umm

In the past while I was still a theist, I used to sometimes pray to the point of crying and at that moment I can see one or two bright bluish spot of light far away in the middle of darkness while my eyes still closed and praying. Praying can be a type of meditation for me in the past. I wasn’t kidding about this. I have been thinking about discussing this matter but I can already predict that people here will just make fun of it.

Praying used to give me peace. It still does, actually. And sure. I’d get swept in in crowd mentality, laying of hands and stuff. Those were very real emotions, but I’m not sure I’d call them “transcendental.”