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Ecstasy |
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Theory
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Understanding ec’stasy
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’ (i.e. ec’stasis) means: out of standing (i.e. out
of stasis, stasis meaning: a state) or out of (hence prior to or post)
stoppage (meaning: still active, excited, in motion and so on). ‘Out of
standing’, i.e. ecstasy, has two meanings: 1.
Standing (hence stopping) in a place (or space or state) other than
that occupied previously. Getting from stand (i.e.
stasis, actually en’stasis, meaning ‘standing within’) A to stand B
results in transcendent (from the Latin transcener, from trans-
‘across’ + scandere ‘climb’)
ec’stasy 2.
Not standing, hence moving. Getting out of (or lifting
off) a stand (i.e. an en’stasis) results in escendent (to wit, climbing out)
ecstasy. Escendent ecstasy happens in two modes. 1.
Movement within a state. A state (actually a process) with internal
movement, excitation, turbulence, expressing as unsteadiness, is called an
a’stasy. 2.
Movement without or outside (or prior to) a state, and which happens,
if an when a state is completely relinquished, at the rate (or speed) of c,
(experienced by (non-religious) mystics (i.e. state escapists) as ubiquitous
(un-relativised) presence). Note: the happiness, joy
or rapture (hence pay-off) experienced upon achieving ecstasy (i.e. a
different stand or no stand) results from acceleration off (or out of) the
stand. Obviously, it’s the pay-off, specifically the acceleration (read:
increased speed or energy) of ecstasy, that most humans want to get. A ‘state’ is
defined (by the NOD) as: the particular (hence
relative) condition that someone (i.e. an identified unit) or
something is in at a specific (hence relative) time. That condition expresses as the self of ‘that something or someone’. In other
words, transcendent ecstasy happens
when an individual changes from one self to another (thereby
re-relativising). And escendent
ecstasy happens when she drops,
lets go of or escapes from (or attenuates to almost zero) her self (thereby
de-relativising, the professional mystic attempting maximum de-relativsation
in order to attain the absolute). |