INTELLECT AND EMOTION - AT THE INTERSECTION

WHY AM I DOING THIS BLOG? I am seeking people who enjoy applying emotion to intellect and to meditation experiences. My recent readings about and by "spiritual teachers" lead me to wonder who is using the emotional discharge process as they reflect on the ideas and experience that occur during meditation. Does anyone select an experience or idea, one's own or someone else's, think about/concentrate on it, and invite any emotion associated with it to surface? Once the emotion has surfaced, do they feel it and discharge "on" it, i.e., cry, laugh, and then do they describe/think about the thoughts that surface?

FOR EXAMPLE, if you had what you would describe as a transcendent experience during meditation (an experience that occurred with or without deep emotion which you may or may not have "dicharged,") when you reflected on it later, ideally with someone present, were emotions triggered (perhaps again)? If they were, what did you "do" with the emotion? Did you try to prolong that "discharge." Did new thoughts emerge? If so, what were they?

HERE IS AN EXAMPLE

While I was reading someone else's ideas, I suddenly began crying. Taking the emotion seriously, I deliberately allowed it to continue by connecting with the physical sensations. In my upper right visual field I "saw" a square and thought, "It's like a window." (This has happened before.) I maintained the emotional discharge and thought, "I'll take a closer look." I sponaneously "zoomed" in on it and thought, "Why, I'm looking down a long black corridor. It goes on forever! Why, it looks like infinity. It's like I'm looking into infinity." The long black corridor seemed to open out at the distant end and as I felt as though my face was plastered against the window I seemed to see white spots everywhere and I thought, "Why, I'm looking at Mind."

Now, I had cried heavily through the entire experience. Without the maintenance of emotion I doubt that it would have occurred. Reflecting on it later, without any additional emotion evoked, I decided it had been an extremely enjoyable experience but I could draw no conclusions from it. I didn't need to. But, in the future with the right setting, I might attempt to re-connect with the chain of thought/emotion and follow it to it source, knowing that that "source" might only be one of innumerable "sources." That is, my mind generated the entire experience based on need, perhaps, or simple association. At the very least I can say that it was "fun" to experience my mind's integration of each discrete thought and emotion.

Your experience?