For some years now, I have used "no words", "no thoughts" and "before time" to take me a deeper level of meditation. The other night I was meditating on "I Am" and then "Who Am I" and, after some time the thought came - "Who is the questioner?", directly followed by "ask the question without words". Reflecting on this, I was soon drawn into a space where there was complete silence - by silence, I mean that the mind seemed to stop its usual movement. Without words, born by and leading to concepts, the usual movement of my mind came to a virtual standstill. Interesting...