Dissolution
When a student is able to deal with the narcissistic wound and
the attendant rage, he can come to understand and accept the hurt.
This allows him to be open to the essential quality of loving-kindness
and hence to develop a greater tolerance of this wound, which
is felt as a rip in the shell of the self. As we have seen in
some student's records, the wound then expands and deepens, culminating
in the experience of the dissolution of the shell. The experience
generally proceeds until the student experiences no shell and
no wound. There remains only an awareness of boundless emptiness,
and nothingness that stretches out forever. The emptiness in the
emptiness wound expands until its boundaries extended indefinitely.
The emptiness within the shell is now completely revealed. (The
Point of Existence, pg 329)