The Ecstatic State Fills His Universe. Poem by Genova Maaa my mother

The ecstatic state fills his universe. The mystic is absorbed in his one idea, his one love: he is in it and with it. But this unified state of consciousness does not merely pour upon something already possessed.


Its true business is perception. It is outgoing and expansive: its goal is something beyond itself.

The rearrangement of the psychic self which occurs in ecstasy is not merely concerned with the normal element of consciousness.

It is a temporary unification of consciousness around that centre of transcendental perception which mystics call the ‚Spark of the Soul‘.

Those deeper layers of personality are active in it: and these are fused with the surface personality by the governing passion, the transcendental love which lies at the basis of all sane ecstatic states.

The result is not merely a mind concentrated on one idea, nor a heart fixed on one desire, nor even a mind and a heart united in the interests of beloved thought: but a whole being welded into one, all its faculties, neglecting the normal universe, grouped about a new centre, serving a new life, and piercing like a single flame the barriers of the sensual world.

Ecstasy is the psycho-physical state which generally accompanies and expresses this brief synthetic act.

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