Light, darkness, and then light again - the journey every freediver experiences during their dive. There is something mystically primordial about delving into pitch-black darkness. The fade into emptiness seems to dissolve the boundaries between you and everything else. The same runs true for going into a cave to meditate, the process of dying, and sometimes even sleep itself. What happens fundamentally is we let go of our identity, all our presuppositions, all ideas and conceptions and just simply be. And then something phenomenal happens in this state, we transcend our normal state of consciousness and feel one with everything.
Of course, it wasn't so easy for me like this. I started my first free dive on Sunday, 15 October. I went into the course thinking I would get my certification for sure, and that it wouldn't be so hard since I already had my advanced scuba license. In hindsight, my inflated ego cost me a lot of disappointment and expectations which hindered my freediving experience. I couldn't be any more wrong. My instructor told me that if scuba had 99% passing rate, then free diving would have a passing rate of only 20%. In other words, 4 in 5 people would fail their course... Immediately I was very distraught because I paid 300 SGD to take the course, and I didn't want to pay another 300 dollars. So during the
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