i've experienced the void, in a big way on another birthday trying this meditation the same ritual taught me. it's exactly what you're saying there's nothing and underneath it there's everything.  my experience of it was being pulled through a tunnel and past a field of stars into a black nothingness where i dissolved completely and all i felt was bliss. i slowly started to feel my connection to the void and to all of existence inside of it past the dark. the further back into my body that i slid the closer the things i felt connected to were. the trees, the people sleeping in the house and finally myself again. the emptiness is because the void is the place where everything and nothing converge and god is described as the alpha and omega, the beginning and end.  i know it, but i don't know it if that makes sense. i lose sight of it in the moment sometimes and waver myself in spite of all my experiences.  i didn't care for salvia, thujone makes me a bit anxious. i've done a lot of opiates/opioids, and acid,shrooms, lot of weed, alcohol, benzos. it's funny i can't recall a life where i wasn't like that with drugs and people i've met with shared memories have bitched at me for that same thing.  mostly i meet ex's i cheated on in other lives and such, the witch included.  i do underneath the veil the experience of reality changes completely.
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