A curious thread, this ecstasy. What is its nature and from where does it come? For now we can't say much on this mystical subject, but we can elaborate on another aspect of its expression.
It does need to be expressed. It occurs within a situation of individuals in a society.
While there is energy to burn, the ecstasy can keep climbing, and it must.
One is in the ecstatic state and it becomes excruciating to back down, or even stagnate.
A blooming flower comes to mind, its unfolding proceeding from the stem in all directions.
This happens everywhere on multiple levels, but here I'm thinking of the big psychedelic music superstars in the 60s and 70s, walking about in public and on stage on heavy psychedelics, in full bloom, their naked selves on display.
This fact is pretty remarkable considering the cultural climate today. If one is to bloom, it is best to do it within a supportive environment, the energy flowing in. Within a hostile environment one is more likely to shrivel, unless one adopts a warlike stance.
The big pop stars today do occasionally wander about in a state of intoxication, but much of the acts are heavily rehearsed and controlled, or else lip syncing is put into use to prevent divergence from the album sound.
You don't generally see the large scale kind of unfolding in which the core comes out, in which the individual is making all sorts of ecstatic gyrations and facial expressions, baring their true selves, which can only emerge out of a deep and generally improvised psychospiritual journey, which must leave expression up to chance amidst the dance between the self and its surroundings.
Today the self exists in a wintry cultural climate, where the blooms are pulled firmly into their protective sheathings, and any kind of expression must be drawn out with vast theatrical and rehearsal machinery. Or else one faces the world honestly with teeth barred, unless one is in a supportive environment, which sometimes has to be created or fought for.
But then one must also ask: what is to bloom, and upon what soil? What is to provide the raw materials for the full flowering on top? Why does one person or group at a certain time get to fully unfurl its petals in rapture, and then at another time shield itself or fight its way through?
