Hey ladyfrog
Knowing that others have shared in my weird experiences is reassuring, thanks for posting. That full-bodied orgasm thing I referred to happened during actual orgasm -- the hot sexual energy would explode throughout my whole body instead of just my genital/pelvic region. The full-bodied orgasm thing you're talking about sounds similar to what Reich called the orgasm reflex
He wrote that the massage aimed to retrieve the repressed memory of the childhood situation that had caused the repression; if the session worked, he would see waves of pleasure move through their bodies, which he called the "orgasm reflex".
I got this effect when I was rhythmically breathing after freeing up my hips and pelvis I started to get waves of pleasure that ran rhythmically up my body in synch with my hips lightly thrusting seemingly of their own accord.
Also, as a general update to this thread. Yesterday I started to get a light electric bliss feeling in my left cheek. Today it's spread slightly to my right cheek although it's still mainly happening in the left. I also started to get waves of the same feeling moving on the right of my scalp. This movement differs from the previous tingling in that the previous tingling was like a spherical wave of bliss and this new feeling is like a regular wave of electricity. At the completion of the past few cycles I've been experiencing an instantaneous feeling as if my heart had been energetically ripped out of my chest, combined with a wave of terror. It's hard to tell which happens first and if one causes the other.
By 'completion of the past few cycles' I'm referring to this pattern I've been going through for the past few weeks: couple days of A&P with bliss and luminosity seems very close to completely encompassing the Field, I wonder why I had any problems, 4th must be just around the corner etc., then feelings of falling through the floor, my chest and diaphragm knotted with dread and anxiety, sudden energetic shifts in my midsection cause me to react with instantaneous fear and clutching, I start to feeling raw and irritated as the frequences get more and more complex and erratic, I get mired in psychological speculation, looking for an answer for the feeling, I struggle for awhile until I really just want it to stop, so I start to throw every technique I have at it, until I realize I've got to stop fighting and just watch for it for it to pass, I get to low eq then usually by that night everything is more synched up and effortless, I continue to feel energetic shifts around my head and what seems to be the centerpoint, pressure in head, intense third eye headaches, then there will be a sudden synch, as if the energy made a sudden final click into some configuration, then I get the heart-ripped-out feeling with the flash of terror, then the Field seems more direct, my head feels less knotted, and I rest easy. Each cycle has taken from 4-8 days with the bulk of the time in the DN.
Throughout this whole process, btw, I would relax before bed and regularly get intense kriyas as jerking, twitching, laughing for no reason, energy moving throughout my body, etc. Curiously enough the kriyas were cyclical once I relaxed enough and didn't interfere. I would start to shake and jerk increasingly fast, it would reach a culmination, taper off, then stop, I would feel that dissolution feeling like I'm melting into my bed, I would enjoy that as it faded into feeling normal over about 30 seconds, then it would start again. The whole cycle takes about 2 minutes, and this happens like 10-20 times before I finally stop it and go to sleep. I don't know how long I could let it go on. This has happened pretty much exactly like this every night for about 2 weeks. The parallels with the PoS are interesting, but I don't think I'm completing whole cycles in 2 minutes, obviously. Perhaps I'm experiencing the completion of sub-energetic-cycles. Maybe.
Kenneth mentioned that 3rd and 4th are completions of some energetic circuit with the third eye, crown, and eventually the heart. I wish I had more data on this. My working hypothesis is that I'm in anagami territory, but I'm not sure. I'm experiencing a decreasing sense of effort and an increased sense of simplicity, directness, happening-on-ownness. I remember that not long ago it seemed like I was constantly exerting an effort all the time as if to sustain my continued existence. This general trend is unmistakeable.
For about the millionth time I've had the epiphany that staying with direct experience is a sufficient and necessary condition for progress. Somehow this point is forgotten a lot of the time. Wondering where I am amounts to nothing. But, if anyone has any thoughts on my anagami hypothesis feel free to diagnose