Ecstasy
Ecstasy
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Ecstasy
Ecstatic Attitude Cultivate fascination with all sensation, all sensation, all feelings are life - even resistance, learn how to welcome, enjoy and love them - let them have you, completely, so that their power and energy becomes available to you. Allow every sensation to be ecstatic. (Peter Warnock) You have seen drunkards: their zigzagging gait reflects their moods which swing from one extreme to another. They laugh, then they cry; they look blissful, then furious; they fall asleep under the table or smash everything up. But wine is in fact not the only thing that causes drunkenness. There are thoughts and feelings that are like wine: jealousy, anger, sensual desires, and so on. Those who are in the grip of these wines lose themselves in the mists and vapours of the astral world, their judgment is just as unsteady as their gait. But there also exists a divine inebriation – ecstasy. And that inebriation does the opposite; it gives clear-sightedness and illumines consciousness. It is not forbidden to be drunk; God himself placed this need in human beings. But they must seek drunkenness above, in beauty, in light, in drinking the pure water that pours forth from the peaks of spiritual mountains. Drink from this water, and you will experience a wonderful kind of drunkenness, which will give you balance, strength and clarity. (O.M. Aïvanhov) If we have constant visions, they may be delightful, and send us into ecstasies, but we are not to indulge in ecstasies - we are here for constructive work. The latter means that you have enough energy usually to heal human beings, animals and plants and stones etc. We have to apply our psychic knowledge to very practical uses. (Lilla Bek, How to Stay Healthy, track #4, 0m20s; excerpt) In Birth Without Violence (pp.112-114) by Frederick Leboyer, he cites the usual belief or ‘fact’ that babies don’t smile before two months, 1½ at the earliest – and laughing aloud takes longer. Yet he gives a photo of babies that are not yet 24 hours old and are clearly smiling, laughing, blissed out. He mentions it is rare, but I think he is suggesting that if we do birth well, this mask of bliss will replace the typical mask of fear/terror/sorrow. It seems this mask of bliss is not really a mask, it is who we actually are. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. (Joseph Campbell) |
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