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Understanding ecstasy
The word
ecstasy is derived from the (ancient) Greek ekstasis based on ek
‘out’ + stasis, literally ‘standing, stoppage’, from sta- base
of histani (or histemi) ‘cause to stand’. In short,
the word ‘ecstasy’ means: stand (or stop) out (or outstanding, or stop
standing). To put it even simpler, ecstasy means: a changed state, i.e. a
state different from the previous one. This happens
in two ways: 1.
The shape of a state, i.e. its identity (read: self) is altered from
inside. This either increases (i.e. via fission) or decreases (i.e. via
fusion) its internal energy. 1.
The new shape (i.e. its identity) acquired is an ecstasy. That
internally generated ecstasy is experienced as positive if the energy of the
new state is increased (i.e. as a sudden surge and when the self is ‘fired
up’). That’s because the (relative) increase (or charge) of energy is
experienced as elation (or enlightenment, indeed as accelerated speed, to
wit, a ‘high’). The degrees of relative energy increase are self-represented
as the various degrees (or intensities) of happiness (i.e. joy, bliss,
ecstatic rapture and so on). 2.
An internally generated ecstasy is experienced as negative if the
energy of the new state is decreased (i.e. as a sudden loss or drop, i.e. as
a reverse surge or trough when the self is ‘cooled down’). The relative
decrease (i.e. discharge) of energy is experienced as (energy) delation (i.e.
as drag or heaviness, indeed as deceleration, to wit, as a ‘low’ or
depression). The degrees of relative energy decrease are self-represented as
the various degrees (or intensities) of unhappiness (i.e. sorrow, misery,
ecstatic agony and so on). 2.
The shape of a state, i.e. its identity (read: self) is altered from
outside. This either increases (via fusion) or decreases (via fission) its
internal energy. 1.
The new shape (i.e. its identity) acquired is an ecstasy. That
externally generated ecstasy is experienced as positive if the energy of the
new state is increased (i.e. as a sudden surge). That’s because the
(relative) increase (or charge) of energy is experienced as elation (or
enlightenment, indeed as accelerated speed, to wit, a ‘high’ when the self is
‘fired up’). The degrees of relative energy increase are self-represented as
the various degrees (or intensities) of happiness (i.e. joy, bliss, ecstatic rapture
and so on). 2.
An externally generated ecstasy is experienced as negative if the
energy of the new state is decreased (i.e. as a sudden loss or drop, i.e. as
a reverse surge or trough). The relative decrease (i.e. discharge) of energy
is experienced as (energy) delation (i.e. as drag or heaviness, indeed as
deceleration, to wit, a ‘low’ or depression when the self is ‘cooled down’).
The degrees of relative energy decrease are self-represented as the various
degrees (or intensities) of unhappiness (i.e. sorrow, misery, ecstatic agony
and so on). Mystic (i.e.
transcendental, i.e. transcending the self) ecstasy, and its pay-off,
rapturous (wholly overwhelming) joy, happens if and when the self is almost
completely attenuated/shrunk so that the mystic rides high on relatively
unlimited (i.e. by her self) energy. She either as it were jumps out of her
skin/self (i.e. shrinks her self (via concentration, indeed, condensation) to
a (non-relative) point, and which accelerates to c) or she is blasted out of
her self from outside so that but a (non-relative) point of her self remains,
and which accelerates to c.
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