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- ECSTASY
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- Taurus New Moon 2008!
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- Taurus New Moon 2018: Making Changes Bit by Bit
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ECSTASY
An article in Newsweek
states that scientists have long known that epileptics often feel spiritual
ecstasy during seizures.(November l7,l997) It further identifies the region of
this ecstasy as the limbic region of the brain, home of emotions , religious
feelings and some seizures. We also know that those under the influence of
drugs claim similar ecstasy, not to mention the flora and fauna of pathological
events that also claim such ecstasy. How can we separate the two, the true
religious ecstasy from the induced one; the true mystical experience from the
pathological? And more to the point, is there any true description of mystical
ecstasy we can understand as a human event, namely, capable of being captured
by our own experience?
Pathologies leave
only claims and clinical records. Mystics, on the other hand, leave us
epistemologies. The mystic's experience can be retraced and is possibly
repeatable by others, and to a certain extent it can be taught.
Few mystics have
made a career of describing their ecstasies, and orthodox religions have been
even less candid in accepting them as the legitimate parcel of their religion,
but rather of the idiosyncrasy of the saint in question. In Christianity, for
example, there is no comparison in emphasis between the Transfiguration of
Christ, His ecstasy, and the Crucifixion. Nor is it in Paul, the so called
Apostle, where the ecstasy that converted him from persecuting Jews into a
leading Christian as he was felled from the horse is considered less important
than his Letters. We find similar examples in Hinduism and Buddhism where
experience, mystical experience, is promoted and encouraged. Yet the literature
on ecstasy is very skimpy. All we are told is that, yes, there are ecstasies.
Even Tantra, at least in written texts, is shy in describing ecstasy, and this
is the tradition that focuses on the epistemology of an experience of THAT,
that is not-I, without an agent but only a witness, and eternity is fashioned
on the model of the state of the lover just before the point of reaching
orgasm.
Individual mystic
writers, like those of the Upanishads, or more modern mystics like those of
sixteenth Century Christian
From the Rig
Veda:
"The sages,
searching in their own hearts with wisdom
Found in Non-Existence the kin of Existence." (l0.129)
"The
whole world is set in your substance,
within
the cave of the heart, within the ocean,
within
your life-span." ( 4.58).
The Katha
Upanishad:
"Realizing,
through the exercises of the yoga of the higher
Self, that primal
God, difficult to be seen, deeply hidden, resides
in the cave of the
heart. Hiding in the deep, the wise man
leaves behind both
joy and sorrow." (Valli Its., 12)
"When all the desires
lodged in one's heart are set free,
Then a mortal
becomes immortal"
"When all the
knots of the heart are cut off here on earth,
Then a mortal
becomes immortal!"
"There are a
hundred and one channels in the heart,
One of these passes
up to the crown of the head,
Going up by it, one
goes to immortality.
The others scatter
in various directions!"
"The measure
of a thumb is the size of the inner soul,
for ever seated in
the heart of creatures." ( Valli 6th,12-l7)
From the Philokalia:
"Whenever the
soul, paying no attention to external
things, is
concentrated in contemplation, then a kind of
flame surrounds it,
as fire surrounds iron, and makes it
wholly
incandescent. The soul remains the same, but can no
longer be touched,
just as red-hot iron cannot be touched
by the hand."
( Ilias the Presbyter, vol.3, Part II, para. l05)
From the Gathas:
"What you have
disclosed through Inner Fire,
What you have
promised through Asha,
the Divine Law for
the discerning Soul,
O Mazda, to us
clearly explain,
let the words come
from your mouth
to help us
transform all living men." ( Yasna 31-3)
From the Bhagavad
Gita:
"I am seated
in the hearts of all
From me are memory,
wisdom and their loss." (l5-l5)
"Undivided,
yet standing as if divided among beings,
as the destroyer
and producer of beings,
(I am) Light of
lights, beyond darkness,
(I am) knowledge,
what is to be known,
and the goal of
knowledge..
I am seated in the
heart of all." ( l3-l7)
It is in the Bhagavad
Gita where we witness the first personal account of an ecstasy by a human, as Arjuna is taken
up by the power of ecstasy:
"If in the
heavens
the light of a
thousand suns
would rise
together,
It would be like
the light of that Self." (ll-l2)
"I behold in your body, Oh God, all the gods,
and also crowds of
different beings...
and all the sages,
and celestial serpents." (ll-l5)
"I behold you,
O Lord and Form of all,
with many arms and
stomachs, mouths and eyes,
and see no end,
middle or beginning to You, O Lord." (ll-l6)
"The moon and
sun as your eyes,
your mouth a
glowing fire,
burning this
universe with your radiance." (ll-l9)
"Having seen
your great Form, with many mouths
And eyes, O
Strong-Armed,
With many arms and
thighs and feet,
With many bellies
and terrible tusks,
The worlds tremble
and so do I." (ll-23)
"You lick and devour
with flaming mouths
Entire worlds from
every side,
Your light-rays
scorch with radiance entire universes," (ll-30)
"Just as moths
with great speed
Enter the flaming
fire and perish there,
So also these
creatures enter your mouths
To meet destruction."
( ll-29).
"Tell me who
You are ..." (ll-31)
A modern Hindu,
Ramakrishna in l856, a young priest of only twenty years, outside
"There was an
unbearable pain in my heart because I couldn't get a vision of Mother (Kali)...
In my agony I said to myself:
"What's the use of living this life?" Suddenly my
eyes fell on the sword
that hangs in the
With the irruption
in the West of Sufi poetry and mysticism through the Sufis in
" Take one
step
away from
yourself--
behold!--the
Path!" ( Abu Sa' id Ibn-l-Khayr).
"The minute I
heard my first love story
I started looking
for you
Not knowing how
blind I was.
Lovers don't
finally meet somewhere.
They are in each
other all along" (Rumi)
"Oh Lord,
nourish me,
not with love
but with the desire
for love." (Ibn 'Arabi)
"True ecstasy
is the conjunction of light
with light, when
the soul of man meets the divine Light." ('Abdu'-Qadir Al-Gilani.)
"Love has come
and it flows like blood
beneath my skin
through my veins.
It has emptied me
of my self
and filled me with
the Beloved,
The Beloved has
penetrated every cell of my body,
Of myself there
remains only a name,
everything else is
Him." (Rumi)
Ignatius de
Loyola, soldier, sinner, founder of the Jesuits, Saint, came to the spiritual
life late in life and it all started with an ecstasy by the river Cardoner, as
he writes in his Diary of a Pilgrim:
"The road ran
next to the river. As he went along occupied with his devotions, he sat down
for a while with his face towards the river, that there ran deep. As he sat,
the eyes of his understanding began to open; not that he saw a vision, but he
came to know many things, matters spiritual and those pertaining to faith and
learning. This took place with such great clarity that everything appeared to
him to be something new. And it happened to enlighten his understanding in such
a manner that he thought of himself as if he were another man and that he had
an intellect different from the one he had before... He experienced a great
clarity in his understanding; so much so that in the whole course of his life,
through sixty two years, even if he put together all of the many gifts he had
had from God and all of the many things he knew and added them all together, he
does not think they would amount to as much as he had received on that one single
occasion." (Powers of Imagining,
l986.)
There are no more
memorable lines in poetry than those of the most famous poem of San Juan de la
Cruz, The Dark Night:
THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
On a dark night,
anxious, by love inflamed,
-O joyous chance--
I left not seen or discovered,
my house at last completely quiet.
In the darkness, with light,
by the secret ladder, disguised,
-O joyous chance-
I left in the darkness, covered,
my house at last complete quiet.
On that joyous night,
in secret, seen by no one,
nor with anything in sight,
I had no other light or mark,
than the one burning in my heart.
This light guided me
more directly than the midday sun,
where waiting for me
was the One I knew so well, my delight,
in a place with no one in sight.
O night, O guide!
O night more loving than the dawn!
O night that joined
lover with Beloved,
Beloved in the lover transformed!
Upon my flowering breasts,
that I had saved for him alone,
there he slept,
while I caressed his hair,
and the cedars' breeze gave us air.
As I spread his tresses,
the fresh wind from the turret,
wounds me in the neck as it presses
with its serene hand,
suspending all my senses with its caresses.
I lose myself, and remain
with my face on the Beloved inclined;
all has come to rest,
I abandon all my cares,
there, among the lilies, to die.
East or West,
male or female, no other writing on ecstasy is more personal, more didactic
than that of Teresa de Avila. For this writer of the sixteenth century prayer
of contemplation ends or begins in the fourth degree of prayer, prayer of
rapture and union where the whole complex of self-body-world is affected. Joy
is of great intensity, the soul and the body are drained of powers (Life,l8,l)
The spirit rises higher than ordinary and joins with love; the detachment from
creatures is deeper and more subtle, but these instances last a very short time
(Life, l8,l2). The whole body complex ceases to live by itself and lives
as if sensitized by someone else (Life, l8,l4). The spiritual raptures
of Teresa, as described by herself overcome the body too: "The natural
body heat fails the body, the body gradually grows cold, and there is no remedy
to avoid this." (Life,20,3) " For in the pain that is
experienced in these impulses, the body feels it along with the soul, and both
seem to have a share in it... The (soul) desires only to die in this
solitude." (Life,9) This suffering and this death, however, bear
along with it great happiness, or as Teresa says it: "It is arduous,
delightful martyrdom." (Life, 20, ll)
We are left
however with the one last question, what is an ecstasy?
What happens in it? She will tell us in the most daring and
sensuous terms:
"
I saw close to me an angel in bodily form... not very large, but small; very
beautiful, his face a flame, he must have been one of the highest angels...In
his hand I saw a golden dart, long, the tip red with fire. This dart entered my
heart many times and reached my insides; in drawing out the dart it seemed he
was taking my insides with it; he left me all inflamed in great love for God.
The pain was so deep that it made me moan; and it was so excessive the
sweetness this unbearable pain plunged me into, that there was no way for me to
stop, nor was the soul satisfied with any less than God himself. "( Life,29,l3)
A further
testimony of the transformation of the body through the ecstasy of these
mystics is the fact that in some of them their bodies did not decompose after
death, as in the cases of Teresa de Avila and Juan de la Cruz. But the most
universal testimony we are all able to see is the testimony of the communities
they left behind, and the testimony of their own body of writing that affects
us spiritually and, in more than one case, to the point of ecstasy.
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UPANISHADS,
I
A VIGNET ON THE MOST FAMOUS ECSTASY
There is no
more famous representation in art of an ecstasy than the marble statue by
Bernini of St. Teresa de Avila's at the altar in Santa Maria della Vittoria in
We have tried to capture this moment and the steps that lead
to it in Teresa's life with a poem that briefly evokes, using her own words, as
we saw earlier in her Life, the ascent and the ecstasy of a woman that
increases the measure of her experience as the experience enlarges this
measure.
A WOMAN'S MEASURE
Remembering Teresa de
Avila
I measured my life
in thimbles of love
squeezing from memory
Sunday preachers
as I moved their images
about in my mind
at those times
when I was praying
to You.
Love of men
in a woman's measure.
You taught me later
to measure it in cups,
as You came to me
in portions of
sky,
water,
fields
quieting my soul
like a still pond
with memories of
fall
summer,
winter,
spring,
as I turned my soul
face up like a mirror.
Love of the world
in a woman's measure.
Finally You came upon me
to stop all measure
in the form of an angel
the body of a man
the face like a flame
carrying in your hand
a dart of gold
the tip burning red,
and You caressed
my heart with it
penetrated inside
would not let go
till my body
grew red with the fire
penetrating my heart...
The pain was so deep,
so soft,
it made me groan,
I heard myself moan
for the pain not to stop
but plunge me deeper
into that bottomless sea
where at last I could feel
the exact measure
of my woman's desires
for You.
Desire of the world,
love for men,
love of God
at last joined
within a woman's measure.
From Of Angels and Women, Mostly.
Paragon
House,
Dr. Antonio T. de Nicolas
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
SUNY at Stony Brook
And
Director of the Bio-Cultural Research Institute in
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