just a puzzler...
what would you consider the single most important catalyst on your path? First transcendent ecstatic experience?
Just wondering.
Namaste.
Craig
Hermes Alchemist
what would you consider the single most important catalyst on your path? First transcendent ecstatic experience?
Just wondering.
Namaste.
Craig
Hermes Alchemist
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Re: a singular ecstasy!
Sun, August 27, 2006 - 3:13 PMCatalyst...Grateful Dead Show April 1 1988, friend dosed me and changed my path forever....
First Dance with Ecstacy....I had Scarlet Fever when i was 5 years old and though the physical experience was traumatic to say the least, i spent months in an ecstatic dream state and was *crushed* when i emerged from it back to this reality....
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Re: a singular ecstasy!
Mon, August 28, 2006 - 11:09 AMI was sitting in a plane bound for San Francisco that was taxiing out to the runway. As the plane turned the sunlight filled the cabin from hole to hole, and as the light passed into my window I was overcome with the greatest sense of bliss as I thought, "And now the monkeys will fly."
Quis
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Re: a singular ecstasy!
Sat, October 21, 2006 - 8:19 AMWhen I was a boy (5 years old? 6?), I discovered that I could spin and spin in circles to induce a state of dizziness ... I loved it. I remember spinning once and then, despite having no balance at the moment, managing to climb up onto the sofa. I stood there and watched the room sway and shift, and I jumped off ... and I remember feeling like I was floating through the air.
Who knows? Maybe I did.
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Sat, October 21, 2006 - 10:27 PMSitting in sun porch/kitchen in my first Apt in chicago there on N. Hasltead and Rascoe drinking a cup of coffee and watching the sun wash over the city. Still remember that feeling of true and pure bliss wash over me as the sun washed the city!!!!!!!! -
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Sun, October 22, 2006 - 2:43 PMThere were so many spontaneous ones when I was between 4-10. But in 6th grade I found a technique I could do on demand.
I could make myself infinitely small by taking a pencil in squggling back and forth on paper... slower and slower, small and smaller strokes... until I could see/feel the graphite leaving the pencil and moving to paper.
Years later I learned TM... it gave me something to do once I got there.
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Re: a singular ecstasy!
Sun, October 29, 2006 - 10:03 PMMine would have been shortly after my breakup with the first man I'd ever fallen in love with. I was in the shower one morning and suddenly realized the degree to which the love had changed me. Then I felt competley one with the universe and everything and everyone in it. For a few days, I walked around in love with everyone, I felt like I understood perfect strangers and was in touch with the beauty in them. It was absolute ecstasy for a few days...I'm working towards holding that same love now, but it's pretty hard sometimes.
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Sat, December 9, 2006 - 1:47 AMI was going to a book signing in NYC about 8 or 9 years ago. It was for a book called Snowboarding to Nirvana by a Buddhist author. I was standing in this huge line with all these people I didn't know and I started just getting really high. It was kind of strange..it felt like I had taken a vacation and was in some really great place where everybody was ecstatic! Not that people around me where ripping their clothes off and dancing in the travel section or anything, but that's kind of what I felt like doing at that moment. I was pretty "high" for a month or so after that.
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Sun, December 10, 2006 - 2:25 PMMy first experience with mushrooms. It was at a place called Mansfield Hollow, near where I went to school. I was sitting in one of the pools that can be found along the stream deep in the woods there, and that was when I first understood what it meant to be a child of the earth...or rather, that was when I first felt what it was. Also, that was when I first became aware of the consciousness of trees and the first time I "spoke" with one. That awareness has never left me. -
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Thu, January 25, 2007 - 5:50 PMcant recall my first time, but it happens when i am out walking under the open sky or out in nature,,,it is sooo strong that it can take my breath away. i notice that i am more apt to experience it during the mid winter months. its combined with the feeling of oneness,,,connectedness! ive never thought of pursueing it or increasing its frequency,,,,,it just is and i accept that.
peace
duv
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Sat, March 10, 2007 - 2:01 PMIt was at the end of a men's sensual massage workshop. I heard about this sensation of electricity going through the body as an alternate expression of orgasim and then while I was on the table receiving a soothing massage my back arched upwards and I felt this incredible jolt of muscle contraction. Emotionally I went from tears to laughter within minutes. It changed my life. At the time I worked for an insurance company and had done so for 17 years. I'm now enrolled in thearputic massage program.
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Sat, April 28, 2007 - 11:02 PMfirst i had an acid trip in which i was thrown out of my body, and then was rocketed to what sure felt like hell, except much worse. i was amazed that i returned.
the good experience: finding a picture of my guru, who is not alive on this plane. it's like he talks to me with his eyes. i'm not hearing voices or anything. it just feels like i have his presence with me all the time. that's pretty ecstatic. it reminds me when i was a boy and could feel the presence of beneficent beings that were there for me.
daniel
