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I definitely had loads of arising and passing away (if that's another word for peak experiences) with many dark nights, but it's more difficult to assess the rest.
A&P is a very specific kind of peak experience, though there is sometimes an assumption that any peak experience is A&P-related. Your "salvation experience", for example, does not follow the typical course for A&P --> dark night (as A&P does not typically peak and then trail off with months of happiness)...and in general, I would say that for the highest peak experiences, there is a fair chance that they are specifically not A&P.
My goals are quite general. The main goal is basicly to grow in empathy, self understanding, wisdom, patience, acceptance, become less self centered etc.
What stands in the way of these things for you, right now, as you understand it?
I mostly practise qigong and sit zazen right now, and experiment a lot with crystals (they actually work if you are chi sensitive, and i am very sensitive). The past three years i've also used a lot of kanna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sceletium_tortuosum#Effects (but not much at all the past monts). Sometimes i also do mantra meditation and visit a bhakti hindu ashram outside Stockholm. I've considered trying out vipassanna, but not done it yet.
How many hours per day for these various practices (in total)?
Anyhow, your background seems quite eclectic, and I suspect that many people (including myself) will not be able to say much that you would find interesting or beneficial without directing the conversation towards a model they understand. So, with that in mind...can you discern "vibrations" as MCTB describes them?