What is the Ecstatic Path (Zoom Livestream Recording)

On Thursday, our Patron sacred study group met to discuss the path of Ecstaticism. Here is the full conversation!

The points discussed in the video are here for your benefit:

Core Principles

• Life is meant to be enjoyed. We are here for the joy of it. Even in sorrow and suffering, joy can be felt when we remember our humanity—that it was a choice and a gift to have this human experience. And aren’t all the best adventures the ones where you weren’t sure if you were going to make it out alive?

• Peace is a state of being. It’s not something you achieve, it is something that unfolds within you. It is available anywhere once you let go of needing to control or fix outer circumstances.

• Relationships are the key. What we accomplish matters little; how much we love matters a great deal. It is the bonds we share with others—the tears, the hugs, the love, the support—that define a well-lived life.

• Relentless stripping away of self-limitations is the way. We are all essentially starlight mucked over with debris of karmic past choices. As we let go of the knots, tensions, and limiting beliefs, we reveal our inner starlight. We reclaim our divine nature.

• We are holy in our entirety. Every aspect of ourselves is sacred and beautiful—including our shameful and broken bits. There is nothing dirty, wrong, or sinful; it is just beautifully human.

• Kindness is a balm. Kindness costs so little but means so much. We are all one another in separate bodies; let us treat one another with respect.

• The path is messy and non-linear. Every part of your life is part of the way. It doubles back, it spirals, it winds, it meanders. Do not expect this to progress the way you anticipate. The road is long, so lets us walk with good fellow travelers and laugh tougher.

• Erotic energy is your life force. Use the orgasmic energy within to bring joy, pleasure, and energetic alchemization to your life. This isn’t pleasure for pleasure’s sake…it is a sacred and holy ritual of unfolding our inner heart-light.

• Resonate with purer vibratory fields. Drink in sacred artwork, chant mantras, dance in firefly-laden meadows. Feel the moss and ancient tree bark. Harmonize with higher-vibratory energies so they magnetize your higher qualities to come to the forefront. Manifest heaven on earth through your personal energetic forcefield.

• Awaken the kundalini and remember that you are god incarnate. Remember your divine nature. Honor the sacred within you and within all beings. Everything is consciousness made solid matter.

• Everything is transient. We are eternal but everything material comes into existence and then fades. Don’t detach from reality fully because of this—instead, love it more intensely because it is so beautiful for the brevity that it is here.

• Love and bliss are the emanation of god. The energy of the divine is love and bliss. This is your true nature. Don’t enact it; be it.

• Meditation, chanting, visualization, and harmonization are the tools. These will help you remember your true nature. Use them daily and cultivate a robust spiritual practice.

• Sentience is alive in all things. God incarnated into all beings. Landforms, trees, animals, stars…they are all alive. There are unseen forces in this world; respect and honor them all.

• Protect your energy but keep an open heart. Make sure you safeguard what you spent time and effort cultivating, but never let that shut you down or create iron walls. Let the barriers be permeable to all the love that can flow through.

• You are your own best divine feature. The inner teacher is the greatest one. We help one another reveal that inner guide to ourselves. We may help one another from time to time, but no one is above one another.

• Consciousness is ever-evolving. The nature of reality is change. Don’t become overly codified. Break the rules. Try new things. Let your understanding evolve. In this, is god.