It was frightful, but it was true, and I just had to lie still inside and look at it.

He tells me that this shows that the first part of the 'process,' as he called it, was finished (he called it the 'Purgative Way').

And I must say that what happened next seems to fit in rather well.
"The new 'process' began quite suddenly when I awoke in the shepherd's hut one morning at Ripon.

The instant I awoke I knew it.

It was very early in the morning, just before sunrise, but there was a little wood behind me, and the birds were beginning to chirp.
"It's very hard to describe it in words, but the first thing to say is that I was not exactly happy just then, but absolutely content.