Entering the void encompasses silence just before entering the void. However I have never known the void, except after having returned from it, an oxymoron. Since I am no one in the void to the experience of nothingness of which the word nothing is a flimsy excuse of a descriptor of the state. I can only assume by inference that I have experienced the void because there was no identity to experience it. And on and on with other circular references.

After the void I feel stripped of everything that is superfluous that maintains sense of self and ego. I feel existentially clean and silence is easier to access.

The only danger to entering into a void state is a possible state of catatonia for hours, days, weeks, or months after the void encounter.