Ecstatic Ritual
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Ecstatic Ritual
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Author : Brandy Williams
language : en
Publisher: Immanion Press
Release Date : 2008-08-01
Ecstatic Ritual written by Brandy Williams and has been published by Immanion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
"Ecstatic Ritual" offers clear, concise exercises and ritual forms which comprise a full understanding of sacred and magical sexuality which leads to the worship and union with the Divine.
Ecstatic Ritual
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Author : Brandy Williams
language : en
Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
Release Date : 1990
Ecstatic Ritual written by Brandy Williams and has been published by Avery Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The Routledge Companion To Ecstatic Experience In The Ancient World
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Author : Diana Stein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-31
The Routledge Companion To Ecstatic Experience In The Ancient World written by Diana Stein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-31 with History categories.
For millennia, people have universally engaged in ecstatic experience as an essential element in ritual practice, spiritual belief and cultural identification. This volume offers the first systematic investigation of its myriad roles and manifestations in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. The twenty-nine contributors represent a broad range of scholarly disciplines, seeking answers to fundamental questions regarding the patterns and commonalities of this vital aspect of the past. How was the experience construed and by what means was it achieved? Who was involved? Where and when were rites carried out? How was it reflected in pictorial arts and written records? What was its relation to other components of the sociocultural compact? In proposing responses, the authors draw upon a wealth of original research in many fields, generating new perspectives and thought-provoking, often surprising, conclusions. With their abundant cross-cultural and cross-temporal references, the chapters mutually enrich each other and collectively deepen our understanding of ecstatic phenomena thousands of years ago. Another noteworthy feature of the book is its illustrative content, including commissioned reconstructions of ecstatic scenarios and pairings of works of Bronze Age and modern psychedelic art. Scholars, students and other readers interested in antiquity, comparative religion and the social and cognitive sciences will find much to explore in the fascinating realm of ecstatic experience in the ancient world.
Lifting The Veil
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Author : Janet Farrar
language : en
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Release Date : 2024-04-22
Lifting The Veil written by Janet Farrar and has been published by The Crowood Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-22 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Written to fill the gap in available knowledge on trance, prophecy, deity-possession and mediumship within the neo-Pagan and Wiccan communities, Lifting the Veil has been developed from Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone's personal work and public workshops on trance-prophecy and ecstatic ritual over 25 years. The book covers the history and modern practice of trance as well as the methods of practice. It also explores the four keys to trance-prophecy, which include the importance of understanding mythical cosmology and psychology, understanding the role of energy in trance, the nature of spirits and deity, and understanding what trance is and the techniques involved. Because trance-prophecy is a very subjective process, the book includes descriptions of the personal experiences of others and transcriptions from several independent sessions by modern seers and priestesses.
Ecstatic Trance
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Author : Felicitas D. Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Binkey Kok, Holland
Release Date : 2003-10
Ecstatic Trance written by Felicitas D. Goodman and has been published by Binkey Kok, Holland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10 with Health & Fitness categories.
Ecstatic Trance contains in-depth information on 60 ritual body postures and describes them in precise, accurate detail, with clear illustrations. The first complete manual on this subject, presented here are age-old postures (one dates back 32,000 years and was inspired by a cave painting) along with newly-researched postures, published here for the first time. Learn these postures and access, energize, and integrate your creative potential. Practicing these postures also leads to new insights into healing, inner development, and rebirth. And combined with appropriate rhythmic stimulation--music and dance, for example--the postures can engender a profound change in consciousness, leading the participant to experience altered states of reality including visions and ecstatic trance states. The postures themselves do not promote any one belief system or dogma but are elements in an overall shamanic worldview.
The Ecstatic Experience
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Author : Belinda Gore
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-03-27
The Ecstatic Experience written by Belinda Gore and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-27 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Trance-inducing postures for shamanic journeying, initiation, healing, divination, and transformation of the soul • Provides practices from Mayan, Egyptian, African, Native American, Sumerian, and other ancient and indigenous traditions • Shows how these practices can detoxify the energy body The human need for ecstasy--the ability to be free of the limitations of ordinary consciousness--is as imperative as the need for food. Renowned anthropologist Felicitas Goodman claimed that being deprived of ecstasy was the fundamental cause of all forms of addiction. Indigenous cultures and the civilizations of antiquity were aware of this and developed specific rituals to induce and channel trance energies to detoxify and nourish the subtle body in order to experience the ecstatic reality that gives life to matter. The body postures seen in ancient art from Mayan, Egyptian, African, Native American, Sumerian, and other ancient and indigenous traditions are a doorway to inducing this kind of ecstatic trance. People who assume these postures in a ritual context are able to experience expanded and transformative states of consciousness. Following up on the groundbreaking introduction of this practice in her first book, Ecstatic Body Postures, Belinda Gore provides a new series of 20 sacred postures and exercises that allow for a deeper understanding and utilization of these shamanic practices. She shows how to use the energy awakened by these practices for healing, shapeshifting, initiations into the mysteries of death and rebirth, divination, spirit journeying, and restoring balance to the cosmic patterns disrupted by destructive human activity.
The Uses Of Ecstasy
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Author : Samuel Wagar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-03-11
The Uses Of Ecstasy written by Samuel Wagar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-11 with categories.
The Wiccan religious movement is descended from a Mystery religion centred on ecstatic trance experiences. The Priestesses and Priests of Wicca are expected to be mystics as well as clergy. Wagar describes the rituals of Wiccan mysticism - Drawing Down the Moon / Sun and the Great Rite in detail, others in less detail - and how mystical experience is taught and integrated into the religion on both the group and individual levels. He distinguishes between several stages of trance and includes first hand accounts of Wiccan mystical experience as well as scripts and theoretical discussion. A valuable insider look at an influential new religion. Includes a useful bibliography for follow-up research.
Ecstatic Trance
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Author : Nana Nauwald
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2021-01-22
Ecstatic Trance written by Nana Nauwald and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-22 with Philosophy categories.
The Groundwork to the Ritual Body Postures and the Trance-Experience Ritual Body Postures combined with sound and rhythm are door openers to manifold worlds of consciousness. The anthropologist Dr. Felicitas D. Goodman (1914-2005) came to this insight through more than 20 years of research work. Nana Nauwald carries on this research for 25 years. By combining a quick rhythm with special body postures found in different cultures and ages, reaching back up to 40,000 years, body and mind are stimulated to a conscious and creative interplay that leads into a heightened alert state of consciousness. The experience in the intentional induced state of trance can be a path to gain healthful insights. They can also open the doors to the potential of one's own creativity, one's own inner wisdom and strength and stimulate self-healing processes. This workbook and reference book contains 65 Ritual Body Postures with extensive descriptions to take up a posture. It also includes pictures of ancient statues from which these postures originate and their historical and cultural background. Detailed drawings and photographs of the postures complete the practical instructions.
Ecstatic X Reality
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Author : Zeth duBois
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Ecstatic X Reality written by Zeth duBois and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Altered states of consciousness categories.
The practice of ecstatic ritual is as ancient as human culture. With the rise of organized religion and the rational scientific revolutions, knowledge of practices and techniques faded into myth. Ecstasy can be described as a highly charged emotional state, that is both volatile and short-lived, presenting the conscious mind with inexplicable mental visions. Contemporary Western culture eschews the value of ecstatic ritual, in favor of rational problem-solving. The ecstatic experience is personal, unfathomable, and the only outward signs of its features are in the accounts of subjects relating their experiences. The ephemeral subjectivity of ecstasy presents numerous barriers for the formal investigation of the transformation of consciousness, in both scientific credo and societal acceptance. A person may use non-invasive mental techniques of meditation, prayer, trance, and the like, to achieve an ecstatic state of mind. Ingesting psychoactive compounds can also lead to ecstasy. Until the 20th century, these processes have been primarily held to be the domain of spiritual exploration. With parallel advances of both inorganic and organic chemistry, scientists discovered psychoactive chemicals inherent in plants reacted in the brain in unforeseen ways. Further exploration of natural compounds and fully human-made laboratory chemicals revealed the existence of neurotransmitters, demonstrating that the experience of consciousness can be directed by temporarily altering brain neurochemistry. The ecstatic experience relates to a state of perception of self in a world of sensation. It is conceivable that that deviation from ordinary frames of reference, as shown by the recordings in the stories of shamans, religious practitioners, yogis, and scientific experimentation, is central to the benefits inherited from an altered state of mind. Evidence has shown that ecstatic ritual well-conceived can have lasting therapeutic effects for mood disorders, assist in overcoming chemical addictions, and enhance overall peace of mind. Accepting that ecstasy is a personal voyage wherein the individual reimagines itself in an altered world, is it also possible to direct the development of strictly external sensations to assist in the development of similar outcomes? This paper will explore the use of Cross Reality (XR) to craft uniquely adapted multisensory experiences. Accessing ecstasy with Ecstatic Cross Reality (EXR) offers hitherto unreachable features of altered state consciousness. Chief among them is the opportunity to be observed by third parties-which is to say, empirical, and to some degree, reproducible. Ecstatic Cross Reality (EXR) can be simultaneously a door to spiritual discovery, and a research tool into the workings of the conscious mind.
Ecstatic Witchcraft
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Author : Fio Gede Parma
language : en
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Release Date : 2012-06-08
Ecstatic Witchcraft written by Fio Gede Parma and has been published by Llewellyn Worldwide this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-08 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Journey down a shamanic path that embraces the ecstatic, the wild, the gnostic, the transformative, and the visionary. Expanding on principles touched on in his book By Land, Sky & Sea: Three Realms of Shamanic Witchcraft, Gede Parma walks you through an apprenticeship designed to ground and orient you on the path of the Shamanic Craft. Discover the meaning of ecstasy. Encounter the three realms. Learn shamanic techniques and rituals that will give you a more primal, authentic experience of Witchcraft, including: Drawing Down the Gods Working with Spirit Allies Trance and Moving Between the Worlds Ecstatic Spellcraft Healing and Soul Retrieval Seership and Divination Praise: "Smart, thought-provoking and useful...A worthy contribution to the continuing growth and evolution of shamanic Wicca by a passionate and poetic member of the next generation."—Phyllis W. Curott, author of Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic