I finally understand what it means to have a “mystical experience,” after having one myself last summer. I was woken up in the middle of the night, and was gifted a beautiful Northern Lights display outside my window… something I’ve never experienced before.

By Sara Murray

August 2024 — Completed July 2025

I was woken up at 2:01 am Sunday night (Monday morning August 12th) on night 1 of my New Hampshire vacation, and could not relax back to sleep… so I got up to stretch and smoke a lil to ease me back to sleep, and when I looked out the window… I could not believe what I was seeing with my own eyes.

At first, I thought I was tripping… that the weed expanded my consciousness too much… and I know what you may be thinking, “oh this girl didn’t have a mystical experience, she was just high…” but I invite you to keep reading & check out the pictures for yourself. Seeing is believing sometimes ;)

I’ve always heard spiritual seekers talk about “mystical experiences” they’ve had on their awakening journey, and I have definitely had my fair share in the past… but this one was unlike the others, and truly felt divinely orchestrated.

I woke up at 2:01 am, and wide awake I layed and watched the last few minutes of “Star Wars - The Phantom Menace” on tv. The movie ended probably 10 minutes later, and then shut off. Around 2:15 am I got up to stretch and move around the dark room, because I was fully conscious, very much awake, and just laying there in silence was making me antsy.

I tidied some things around our room (my boyfriend was sleeping peacefully during all this), and decided to smoke to fall back asleep, something I always do at home. I looked out the window a few moments before, and saw it was still a bit cloudy. The Perseid meteor shower was visible that night, so all night we were trying to see some meteors, with no luck due to the clouds. I was curious if it was still cloudy, and saw the clouds were starting to clear.

I took a rip, and as I was blowing it out the window, I noticed the sky turning green… which instantly freaked me the fuck out. It was cloudy a minute before, but almost all the clouds cleared and revealed something magical in their place. I wasn’t super stoned yet, but I’ve never seen the sky turn green… so I had no clue what the heck was going on. I kept trying to adjust my eyes and look closer to see if the sky was really fluorescent, and I grabbed my phone to see if I was just seeing things or if it was really there - and it was.

You can see the clouds still clearing from view, and the glowing green hue across the sky. The first photo I accidentally took with flash, but you can still clearly see the aurora on the horizon. My room is half underground, so the window is at eye level and covered by some bushes.

I was honestly pretty spooked at first… I didn’t know what was happening, and had no idea the Northern Lights were visible in this part of New Hampshire. It took about a minute for me to realize it was the northern lights, as the colors started changing to shades of red, pink and purple.

The following morning, I did some research and discovered there was a G2 level geomagnetic storm impacting Earth over the weekend, from solar flares emitted from the sun a few days prior. The aurora borealis is caused by the supercharged light particles from coronal mass ejections interacting with Earth’s atmosphere.

“A G2-level solar storm was predicted Friday through Sunday because of a pair of coronal mass ejections that were projected to head toward Earth. When those coronal mass ejections interact with Earth’s magnetic field, it can cause auroras like the northern lights.”

— wmur.com

If you want to read more, here’s the article ~

https://www.wmur.com/article/northern-lights-new-hampshire-812/61852322

conclusion — written on July 9th 2025

This was such an AMAZING, mystical experience. When it initially happened, I felt strange because I was the only one who got to witness this magical, almost otherworldly phenomena. I thought to myself “of course me, the weird alien girl, is the only one who sees these lights in a house full of almost 20 people.” I was almost in denial it even happened… especially after we all stayed up until 4 am trying to get a glimpse at these lights, but to no avail we saw nothing. If I hadn’t taken those pictures, I would have thought I was delusional.

This is not trying to discourage anyone who has mystical experiences — instead, my perspective serves to speak on a common occurrence that happens when we have these mystical experiences. We often deny our truth, if it means blending in with the status quo and appealing to the collective mind we are a part of at the time. Meaning, if it is not a shared experience amongst the group, we often deny, shun or shame our truth, because it separates us from the group. This is what happened to me after my experiences, and could be why it took me until July of the next year to publish this.

I was very bothered by my heightened awareness for the past year, really having a hard time integrating into the status quo of the people I am often around. I have found that the more I accept myself, the more people either accept me or just leave me alone, so this work has been very internal… however I cannot help but notice that this is a shared experience amongst all of humanity, no matter how mystical or mundane the individual experience may be.

When we stand alone from the crowd… or, when we have an individuating experience that sets us apart from others… we often become frightened and reject the experience because it creates feelings and experiences of separation, something that feels like intense fear, anxiety and danger within us. When we feel connected and like a part of the group we often feel safe, secure, detached but aware, and happy… but when we feel separate, we feel threatened, anxious and hyper aware, almost feeling abandoned at times. So, when one of us has an experience that causes us to stand alone, our perception of the experience can deem our survival is threatened or that we have been abandoned, leading to intense feelings of fear and repression.

This all can cause us to bury our individuating experiences within ourselves, denying the truth of our experiences and repressing the fact that we feel alone.

Our mystical experiences are often not shared; but this does not mean they have to be denied, repressed, shamed or forgotten. You are not “crazy” because you had an individuating experience that may be difficult to explain in words, or may be far out of the ordinary in comparison to “normal”, status quo reality. It is time we speak up about the weirdness, the woowoo, the “you can’t make this shit up” experiences that EVERY ONE OF US has in our lives at some point or another. The synchronicities, in your face coincidences and powerful spiritual happenings are not random and are becoming more and more frequent for all of humanity… even the most “normal” and “sane” people.

If you ever want to share your mystical experiences with someone, reach out to me!!!!! I will gratefully hear your story, and maybe we can collaborate to share your experiences with the world, either in an article or interview! I feel like the more we speak up and share these magical happenings, the more we give permission for others to share their experiences too. We all begin to feel less alone in this crowded world when we recognize the shared experiences we all have… and that even some of the strangest, woowoo, coincidental happenings are common occurrence to humans, we are just often too scared to speak up or own our strange experiences.

So, own your weirdness. Share the stories of your life… even if they’re freaking weird and otherworldly. We need these stories… they will pave the way for the spiritual awakening of the human race, ushering in a new era of lived experience and opening us all up to a variety of mystical, magical, strange happenings. This world is way more strange than we thought… and maybe that’s a good thing!!

Much Love & Namaste,

Sara

I had a mystical experience last summer…

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