Comment: " The meditative absorption states (samadhi) are what you call "enter(ing) the void."

This isn't what I meant by using that terminology. I apologize for that because it's most likely terminology I made up, and have been using in my own way for long... For me entering the
void is more like the story of Job in the bible. It feels like everything is taken away and you no longer want to live anymore and think about ending your life. The first time was the hardest, it was my first real surrender. The second time (not so long ago) I noticed that all the 'issues' I had were nearly the same as the first, which I thought I had gone beyond. I felt like I was repeating, which was okay because it made me turn within again and take a closer look. So this is the effect of being in this empty space, that one turns back to oneself - questioning everything. Then I noticed it again in the last few weeks, and this time all is really taken away in the physical realm, before I just emotionally felt like it was. I think this is part of it, and it makes sense to me that it has to be this way. One has to let go of everything that defined one's personality and all that was related to 'that life' and completely start over. To be born anew, one has to make a fresh start and jump into the stream of life not having any idea of what might come next.

Comment: "With respect to your conclusion that enlightenment is a product of the body  being "perfectly healed of all the physical imperfections," I might point out that if we look at the record of mystics, who most probably were enlightened, some of them, such as St Francis of Assisi and Sri Ramakrishna died of sicknesses, and some of them had birth defects, or injuries, and yet they manifest a profound enlightenment."
I see this process of healing the body of all physical imperfections, as the first creation of our creator, which in itself is a growing/learning process with the end result of 'being'.  The healing process frees oneself physically of the personality. I suspect the mystics and spiritual people at large, have greatly underestimated the power of Being. I really have to ask what is the big deal about becoming enlightened? Is it only to have a certain percent of control through extensive practise, vigilance and constant monitoring of one's mind and emotions, not being able to stay fully present 24/24, always eventually getting lost in the tricky turns of one's personality and reacting at times?

Can't we trust that we can be healed of all defects - no matter what condition ails us - if only we surrender to the healer within?

Betsy