Sublime

viscerally.

The ecstatic is our compass, pointing to our true north.

Ecstatically one forefeels the vastness of the Divine Embrace enfolding one’s liberated spirit, the warm bath of physical dissolution, the universal unknown engulfing the minuscule unknown that had been the only real part of one’s temporary personality.

The immediacy of this incredibly powerful presence is at first shocking. The good feeling is shocking. Therefore, the ego must grow sufficiently strong and healthy to bear the high vibrations when the inner presence of God emanates into the outer person. This presence is then experienced as your eternal reality and state— your true identity. The

Resonance occurs when the unique vibration of our truth is being sung and we recognize it with an effervescence of emotion and sensation. This form of remembering is called anamnesis in Platonic philosophy. It’s the recollection of innate wisdom from a time previous to birth, or perhaps a fold in hyperspace that gives us a brief memory of the

As subjects face this material, they release enormous amounts of tension in aggressive motor discharges, shaking and tremors, projectile vomiting, episodes of choking and determined coughing—in an atmosphere of what Grof calls Dionysian or volcanic type of ecstasy. At certain points, they can also become convinced that they are dying. As people

I grinned and felt in sync with the universe.

ecstatic.