Reentry after Experiencing States of Ecstacy

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

Through his theory of relativity, Einstein described that at the speed of light, outside ordinary reality, the properties of time and space become altered. He discovered that two events that occur simultaneously for one observer might not occur simultaneously for another if the observers are in relative motion, and that objects become shortened in the direction that they are moving, with respect to the observer. Einstein also found that moving clocks tick more slowly than an observer’s stationary clock. The phenomenon of space and time changing as a function of relative position also occurs when observing energetic experience vs. experiencing it as a state of connectivity.

Attempting to “bend” nonordinary reality experience to fit into the preconceived notions we use to organize our experience of ordinary reality does not work. This is because experiences occurring outside of consensual reality are impossible to describe. They do not conform to a framework based in linear time and as a result become distorted when translated into temporal spatial reality.

 A gradual perceptual shift happens when moving from experiencing in an energetic state into awareness of having discreet physical form. In re-entry, movement is made through the various levels of psychic engagement – starting from ecstatic energetic experience, into mythic and symbolic levels of the imaginal realm, and finally arriving at the literal level of the concrete world.  Since these kinds of initiatory numinous experiences take place outside of the realm of normal psychological development as it exists in our collective culture, coming back necessitates establishing a unique interior framework for processing new incoming information.  

I have heard that the Sami, the indigenous people of Northern Sweden,  have many different words to describe the characteristics of snow, and that in places in Africa there are eighty ways to describe the characteristics of dirt! In both cultures, a verbal system of communication has been developed that provides a supportive framework to explain an essential element of their environment. Unlike the language of the Sami and African people that describes unique aspects of the native external environment in ordinary reality; it is not possible to keep the integrity of an experience of the nonordinary reality intact using the same methods of linear thinking through verbal language. There is no logical progression. No accurately descriptive words exist and the same rules do not apply. The experience is irrational because one is “struck” by the experience, rather than engaging in an internal process of rationally thinking about it or developing feelings that will determine how the experience will be perceived. 

Verbal communication is a sequential process tied to causal logic and is a function of our conscious ego. We use speech, both internally and externally, to differentiate, interpret and assign meaning about what is happening in our inner and outer world. However, the realm of the energetic collective can only be accessed indirectly through intuitive and sensory experience, beyond the boundaries of ordinary ego functioning. Because of this, making sense of an intense energetic experience is individually felt as direct experience. In the later phases of re-entry transition, it becomes possible to verbalize aspects of the process – as I am doing now – however, during the initial phase this is not possible because much of the experience in the initial phase are impressed as non-verbal, sensory/somatic experience.

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