Hello everyone.  I am a 41 year old male IT engineer.  I ran into a weird spiritual experience last year that lasted for about 6 days.  I call it my bliss. I didn't sleep but 2 hours a night. I was having OBEs like I was watching everything including myself. I felt like an animal sometimes where I was very alert and had enhanced senses.  I could feel minor temperature shifts and the very slightness wind changes.  I had enhanced vision. I had some trips too.  I swam with dolphins, went for a journey in the universe, ran with a jaguar and kept seeing a running white buffalo.  My workouts were intense. Everything was very weird but it was a great experience.  And I was stone sober. No drugs, alcohol nothing.  I also seemed confused the whole time.  I called my aunt who I knew to be spiritual and she grounded me because by day 6, I felt like I had to go to the hospital because I knew something wasn't normal.  After the fact I realized that I loved it.  This began my spiritual journey.  Before this I was another programmed lemming.    

Ever since then, I have been trying to get back there.  I think what happened was that through exercise, breathing, meditation and some death realizations about my father, that I may have opened my pineal gland.  It doesn't take a mental giant to figure out how I ended up here.  Besides that, I have had this uncanny urge to explore shamanism.  WOW.  Two birds with one stone on this site.

Now I am interested in experimenting and it seems very difficult. I had no idea that something natural would be so hard to obtain.  So I decided to join the forums to see what if I can learn anything on opening the pineal.  I am open to any suggestions.