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140 Bhanga Nights

Last summer (2025) I attended a silent 10 day meditation course again, for the first time since 2007. Once again this time, I experienced a physical phenomenon each time I slept (and sometimes while meditating), that felt like a cross between TV static electricity moving throughout the whole body and a plasma ball. The teacher of the course referred to this state in discourses as "bhanga" which is roughly translated as "dissolution." It mostly happens when I attend these courses, and occasionally at other random times in the night at home - but much less frequently than when at a course meditating ten hours a day. It is also accompanied by several high pitched frequencies, like tinnitus, in the ears, but the frequencies change when that state comes and goes. Just observe, no craving, no aversion. After researching and finding some videos about the bhanga state on the internet from Shinzen Young and Beth Upton, I decided to create a track that captured the experience and shared forward this information so that any others who experience it might have more information. The track also features samples of Eric Fraser on bansuri flute. I met Eric at a similar meditation course in 2005 and recorded him playing bansuri in Ableton Live in my Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY apartment on St. James Place, a block from where Notorious B.I.G. grew up!

a meditation/shamanic experience... bhanga

Related Videos:

Dissolution: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a344llNU15Y

Bhanga Nana: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-0KyhGPPAE

Experiences of Bhanga: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUryO_vJT1o

Mixed and Mastered by BASSFACE!

Bansuri Flute samples: Eric Fraser