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Topic: Ecstatic Trance
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Nephthys
Moderator Posts: 2830
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted January 08, 2007 12:02 PM
 
Have you ever been in ecstatic trance and what was the circumstances?What comes to mind for me right now, is 1 year ago, when it snowed atop our high mountains here, on Mount Tamalpais. We drove up there and it was the most surreal moment to drive through snowflakes and arrive to snow on the ground, a mere 30 minutes from my house! It was so memsmerizing, and amazing. You see, it doesn't snow here where I live! IP: Logged |
hippichick
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From: The Ether
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted January 08, 2007 06:11 PM
Interesting ??When I was a teenager, I used to experience the most strange, sureal connectedness to conciousness that I can only describe as a "waking dream..." Often,it would happen when I was riding my horse. I would feel as if were floating somewhere, not on the earth all-the-while knowing that I was infact earthbound--- Then it stopped~~~ Many years later, in my 40's, lately I have begun to experience the same kind of effect--not quite as profound, but lending itself to the same kind of trance state.... In hindsight, after getting into astrology, I may have linked it to a Pluto transit... Will investigate further..... Terri IP: Logged |
Nephthys
Moderator Posts: 2830
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted January 08, 2007 09:05 PM
OMG! I know what you mean! Like, does it feel like you're not really in your body, but suddenly viewing everything around you, and the world kind of stops, and you're watching it and yourself in slow motion? Yeah, I've experienced that a lot! IP: Logged |
hippichick
Knowflake Posts: 900
From: The Ether
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted January 08, 2007 10:03 PM
Well, kind of--hard to describe, connected to the physical body, yet dis-conected by conciousness, floating above, but not really physically above, maybe just a little above and to the right....It really used to scare me, then I got used to it, then it went away. Has happened spontaneoulsy several times over the years, but like I said before, not so profound.. Wish it would--very trippy!! Terri IP: Logged |
Nephthys
Moderator Posts: 2830
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted January 08, 2007 10:39 PM
Yeah, these experiences always happen randomly, and not by our command! Oh well, at least we have them. I notice when I am so busy in life I don't have these experiences, but when my days are not so busy and slower, then I have these experiences.   IP: Logged |
MysticMelody
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posted January 09, 2007 11:38 PM
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BlueRoamer
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From: Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 10, 2007 02:23 PM
Hippichick~ that sounds like it could be an out of body experience. Sometimes these can be motivated by extreme levels of fear, and it's only a perception of being outside the body. I only say this because you say you were afraid at the time.An actualy out of body experience is rarely an intensely fearful experience, more a wonderful, mystical, and ecstatic one. Nepthys~ your experience to me sounds like an experience of extreme awe. The emotion of awe is known to be associated with spirituality. It often is accompanied by goosebumps, depersonalization, time and space distortions. TO me an ecstatic trance implies a meditative state, one where thought and ego dissolve. Experiencing awe can definitely motivate this sort of state even without a formal meditation. However, most mystics would probalby argue that the most estatic trances can only be achieved through meditation, prayer, or chant. IP: Logged |
hippichick
Knowflake Posts: 900
From: The Ether
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted January 10, 2007 02:32 PM
BlueActually it scared me after the fact as I was only a teenager, usually out in the middle of nowhere on my horse. I was in a state of blissfull peace before it occured.. Has not happened in a while as strong as it it did when I was a teenager, kind of wish it would!! Terri
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