When you are working at meditation every day, you gradually learn that you have no control, you have no influence, you have no way to predict what's going to happen. Usually if you're feeling at a low level of consciousness, not much is going to happen. But sometimes it does, miraculously; you leave your body, you see the stars. You feel high, you feel drunk. If you experience it, then you'll know. I believe the writer has done so.
When you are working at meditation every day, you gradually learn that you have no control, you have no influence, you have no way to predict what's going to happen. Usually if you're feeling at a low level of consciousness, not much is going to happen. But sometimes it does, miraculously; you leave your body, you see the stars. You feel high, you feel drunk. If you experience it, then you'll know. I believe the writer has done so.