What to do with your Ecstatic Trance Experience
What to do with Your Ecstatic Trance Experiences
Periodically we need to be reminded what we should do with our ecstatic trance experiences to benefit the most from them. We need to frequently return to them to learn what they have to say to us at their many different and deeper levels.
For the first twelve years of teaching ecstatic trance I had the participants write their experience on index cards, collected the cards at the end of the session, took them home, and transcribed them into computer files. Then several days later I would send them back to the participant, asking them to correct and add to my transcriptions. In this way they had the opportunity to re-read them several days later. I collected well over 3000 experiences from the many people in my groups, a collection that led me to write the books I have published. This collection of index cards I have sent to the Institute to archive. Upon moving to NY I decided not to spend all the time I used in transcribing the experiences and suggested that the participants could email them to me. Several people have taken this clue and have been sending me their experiences. I expect that they have their own computer files of their experiences that make it easier for them to return to.
As with nighttime dreams, the experiences are frequently in the language of metaphor, a language that is not immediately understood. By repeatedly returning to an experience over time the meaning and deeper and deeper levels of meaning is revealed to the person. These experiences have something to teach, teachings that help in overcoming troublesome issues in your life and lead to personal spiritual growth. Often they concern issues beyond this personal nature, issues that show us how to live within our families and communities in a healthier and more sustainable way. With the global climate crisis and its present manifestation that we see in the crisis of the pandemic, the experiences likely show us where we have gone wrong in our greedy destruction of the planet. They can show us how to live sustainably as our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived in protecting all life on the planet by not taking more that is needed at the moment and making sure that enough is left to regenerate for the next season. I believe that these healthy ways are being revealed in the ecstatic trance experiences of our current Friday and Tuesday Zoom groups. By frequently returning to our previous experiences this picture of a sustainable future becomes increasingly clear, thus please return frequently to your trance experiences and live by them for the sake of us all on the planet.
Periodically we need to be reminded what we should do with our ecstatic trance experiences to benefit the most from them. We need to frequently return to them to learn what they have to say to us at their many different and deeper levels.
For the first twelve years of teaching ecstatic trance I had the participants write their experience on index cards, collected the cards at the end of the session, took them home, and transcribed them into computer files. Then several days later I would send them back to the participant, asking them to correct and add to my transcriptions. In this way they had the opportunity to re-read them several days later. I collected well over 3000 experiences from the many people in my groups, a collection that led me to write the books I have published. This collection of index cards I have sent to the Institute to archive. Upon moving to NY I decided not to spend all the time I used in transcribing the experiences and suggested that the participants could email them to me. Several people have taken this clue and have been sending me their experiences. I expect that they have their own computer files of their experiences that make it easier for them to return to.
As with nighttime dreams, the experiences are frequently in the language of metaphor, a language that is not immediately understood. By repeatedly returning to an experience over time the meaning and deeper and deeper levels of meaning is revealed to the person. These experiences have something to teach, teachings that help in overcoming troublesome issues in your life and lead to personal spiritual growth. Often they concern issues beyond this personal nature, issues that show us how to live within our families and communities in a healthier and more sustainable way. With the global climate crisis and its present manifestation that we see in the crisis of the pandemic, the experiences likely show us where we have gone wrong in our greedy destruction of the planet. They can show us how to live sustainably as our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived in protecting all life on the planet by not taking more that is needed at the moment and making sure that enough is left to regenerate for the next season. I believe that these healthy ways are being revealed in the ecstatic trance experiences of our current Friday and Tuesday Zoom groups. By frequently returning to our previous experiences this picture of a sustainable future becomes increasingly clear, thus please return frequently to your trance experiences and live by them for the sake of us all on the planet.
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