Spiritual Ecstasy is a basic human need that most of us aren't in touch with

If you google the word ecstasy you get a whole lot of images of recreational drugs, spreads of little colourful pills, rows and rows of images with different shapes and patterns. In fact, for so many of the rave culture and now their children that is certainly the first thing to mind when we say the word “Ecstasy”.

In many ways this makes me sad. I love talking about ecstasy as in the divine feeling, but always the very first impression is the drug.

Spiritual Ecstasy is something that is inside all of us and we just need to remove all the blocks that stop us from allowing it to come through. Mdma is just the back door, in this case we are just desperately trying to access that feeling of our inner essence any way we can. 

It reminds me of this question posed to Osho and made popular by DJ Koze in his track XTC

“Many people are experimenting

With the drug Ecstasy

I heard you say once

That a lie is sweet in the beginning

And bitter in the end

And truth is bitter in the beginning

And sweet in the end

I have been meditating

But I don't have the experience as people report

From the drug Ecstasy

Is a drug like the lie

And meditation the truth?

Or am I missing something

That could really help me?”

In Spiritual Nutrition I often talk about the ‘toxic mimic’. When we are deficient in something, our body will absorb a toxic mimic instead - like a chemical hormone disruptor. Because most of us are not connected to our divinity, the natural source of Ecstasy we are attracted to the toxic mimic….

Ecstasy pills are primarily made of MDMA particularly powerful in releasing a brain chemical called serotonin - that makes us feel really good and often even trippy. MDMA also increases the level of oxytocin in the body which makes us feel increasingly emotionally connected to others, often wanting to touch, cuddle and share our feelings. The side effects of this is a ‘come down’ which lasts for days as the body has used all it’s reserves of serotonin and oxytocin and it takes time for them to build back up. 

Years later after my spiritual awakening I realised that the reason that I was drawn to ecstasy so much like SO many others is that it was the closest thing for me at that time to feel like I was “home”.

Ecstasy is not a pill

Ecstasy is our home. Ecstasy is not a pill. It’s a facet of our divine nature. When we enter our journey of a human being, some describe it as a ‘hide and seek’. We are divine beings full of bliss, peace, ecstasy and then are born into the human experience and start to forget all this through our social conditioning. When we are in fear, and feeling to conform, we are a lot easier to control than when we are truly free thinkers, free at heart and in our ecstatic core that we realise we are a divine being.

Ecstasy is often seen as something ‘out of control’ and looked down upon in our “civilised” society. But all indigenous culture celebrated ecstasy with chanting, drumming, trance dances. They knew it was a way to let go and be connected with their divine aspect. 

“As the world gets more dark, and troubled and the uncertainty grows, every once in a while stepping into the ecstatic, is one of the few ways to renew one’s eyes for beauty, one’s feeling for being alive.

Michael Meade

Difference between Ecstasy + Happiness

Happiness is circumstantial, it comes from an outside source ie. a new dress, new car, new lover etc, and when that thing goes we often feel the opposite of happiness which is sadness.

That happiness doesn’t last.

The same with excitement, we can feel excited at a party, about a holiday, but when it fades we can feel a bit flat afterwards. 

Ecstasy on the other hand is a divine feeling that comes when we connect with the divine eternal aspect of us, it’s NOT dependent on outer circumstances. It also leaves you feeling deeply satisfied. 

We can only do this in the present moment. Feeling into an ecstatic thought can be a bridge, but to have a true experience we have to be 100% present with ourselves and let go of any thoughts to cross over into the experience. 

This natural ecstasy, you can’t “make” it happen, you can only “allow” it.

Think back to our analogy of preparing a garden and having the best conditions for the flowers to bloom. 

I share about the nature of non-causal ecstasy and the keys to allow this inner garden to flower with you in my course Ecstasy Now - a guide to meditative living with non-causal Ecstasy. 

The Need For Ecstasy As Spiritual Nutrition

For us to thrive we need to be in contact with Ecstasy, it's a spiritual nutrient we need to thrive. For sure we need it now more than ever. As a culture we’ve been subsisting on the toxic mimic for way too long, too many people are unhappy. 

The program I created called Ecstasy Now is all about sharing keys about how to tap into non-causal divine Ecstasy and meditative living tools that increase the capacity and frequency for non-causal ecstasy to arise within us. 

If you want to explore this more I invite you to take a look at my course Spiritual Ecstasy - a guide to meditative living and allow more spiritual ecstasy to flow through you and into your days.