Creativity and the Ecstatic Trance Experience
The Ecstatic Trance Experience
Ecstatic Trance Experiences come from beyond our five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. During the 2500 years of what we would consider the rational era, what we experience from beyond our five senses has been considered unreal and superstitious. Much has been lost in life by ignoring these experiences whether they come from our nighttime dreams, from hypnotic trance, from Ecstatic Trance or other trance experiences, or from the use of our imagination. Yet the imaginative writing of many writers has been highly valued, writing that comes from an alternate state of consciousness. The next sentence or where the story goes next magically arises from beyond the five senses. The writer is often surprised with what ends up on paper, especially when it is re-read at some later time. I have often had this experience of surprise when reading what I wrote some time ago. “Writer’s block” can be easily overcome by recognizing that the writer’s creativity comes from an altered state of consciousness, by learning and practicing how to intentionally go into such a state of trance, whether by sleeping on it in a dream state, by going into an hypnotic state of trance, or for me the state of Ecstatic Trance.
These experiences from beyond our five senses are often in the language of metaphor as are the many loved stories of mythology and the stories written for children with their many animal characters. There is much to learn from these stories that come from beyond. Our hunting and gathering ancestors were very open to appreciating what came from beyond the five senses, from the ancestors and from the spirits of the Earth. What they experienced in listening to that which comes from beyond, from the world of the spirits, would tell them how to live, where to hunt, what flora was edible, and give direction to their day to day activities. It would tell them how to live in a healthy way, of how to live in oneness with the Earth and all that is of the Earth. Ignoring this direction in how to live, direction that we have ignored over the last 2500 years, has led us in our greed to take indiscriminately from the Earth, and has brought us to the brink of extinction as evident in the Global Climate Crisis and now the Coronavirus. Now is the time we must begin to live differently in order to survive. Again, bringing alive the ancient stores from our hunting and gathering ancestors and to again experience that which is from beyond our five senses can show us how to live in oneness with the Earth and how to survive.
Ecstatic Trance Experiences come from beyond our five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. During the 2500 years of what we would consider the rational era, what we experience from beyond our five senses has been considered unreal and superstitious. Much has been lost in life by ignoring these experiences whether they come from our nighttime dreams, from hypnotic trance, from Ecstatic Trance or other trance experiences, or from the use of our imagination. Yet the imaginative writing of many writers has been highly valued, writing that comes from an alternate state of consciousness. The next sentence or where the story goes next magically arises from beyond the five senses. The writer is often surprised with what ends up on paper, especially when it is re-read at some later time. I have often had this experience of surprise when reading what I wrote some time ago. “Writer’s block” can be easily overcome by recognizing that the writer’s creativity comes from an altered state of consciousness, by learning and practicing how to intentionally go into such a state of trance, whether by sleeping on it in a dream state, by going into an hypnotic state of trance, or for me the state of Ecstatic Trance.
These experiences from beyond our five senses are often in the language of metaphor as are the many loved stories of mythology and the stories written for children with their many animal characters. There is much to learn from these stories that come from beyond. Our hunting and gathering ancestors were very open to appreciating what came from beyond the five senses, from the ancestors and from the spirits of the Earth. What they experienced in listening to that which comes from beyond, from the world of the spirits, would tell them how to live, where to hunt, what flora was edible, and give direction to their day to day activities. It would tell them how to live in a healthy way, of how to live in oneness with the Earth and all that is of the Earth. Ignoring this direction in how to live, direction that we have ignored over the last 2500 years, has led us in our greed to take indiscriminately from the Earth, and has brought us to the brink of extinction as evident in the Global Climate Crisis and now the Coronavirus. Now is the time we must begin to live differently in order to survive. Again, bringing alive the ancient stores from our hunting and gathering ancestors and to again experience that which is from beyond our five senses can show us how to live in oneness with the Earth and how to survive.
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