Category: Miscellaneous Essays
Announcing The Pinnacle Prayer Book!
A few years ago we were in Budapest and before going to sleep one night, Brad prayed that I would be sent in dream to a spiritual classroom to receive further guidance for our work together. That night I had a powerful vision in which I was presented with a small, black, leather bound book…
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You Must Own It Before You Can Understand It: A Lesson from the Library of Feelings
Somewhere on the other side of mystery there is a library that holds all the wisdom of the universe. People have referred to it as the “Akashic Records,” a term popularized by the mystic Edgar Cayce but previously circulated among members of the Theosophical Society in the 19th century. There is a lot of debate…
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Our Story: Celebrating 5 Years of Sacred Ecstatics
We are celebrating five years of Sacred Ecstatics! Since beginning, we have published seven books (including the 2019 Sacred Ecstatics revised edition), several academic papers, and numerous blog essays, launched a new library of musical audio teachings, and conducted over 40 intensives and workshops around the world. We have also experienced people grow and transform…
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Apple, Orange, and a Pear: Becoming a Better Spiritual Partner
Accept that the highest spiritual occupation is to serve, accompany, and learn rather than to lead, solo, or teach. We have been fortunate over the past several years to spiritually cook with many couples who are part of the Sacred Ecstatics Guild. Below is some of what we’ve learned about the art of being alive…
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Becoming a Mystical Wheel
Invitation to Conduct a One Week Experiment In 2018 we were inspired by a series of dreams to write The Spiritual Engineering of Sacred Ecstasy. It’s a practical book that introduces the underlying dynamics of ecstatic spirituality—how to spiritually “cook.” You’ll have to read the book to discover what we mean by “engineering,” how your…
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Therapeutic Absurdity for When You’re Feeling Prickly and Pickly
Sacred Ecstatics brings the transformational dynamics of big room mystery into the pickled thought, flat-planed sense, and sedated activity of the experientially shrunken and spiritually frozen small containers of daily living. Sometimes, however, you are so existentially cramped and chilly that even your favorite go-to spiritual inspiration delivers more fizzle than sizzle. Whenever you find…
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Move Over, Meditation
Lifting the Taboo on Heightened Emotion What if, instead of seeking inner peace, a calm mind, and a relaxed body, you experimented with the opposite: lighting an inner fire, awakening higher emotion, and making soulful commotion? What if instead of mindfulness practice, you tinkered with catching a wave of deep, sacred feeling? There may be…
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The Mystical Prescription
Creatively Uncommon Tasks and Reverently Relevant Rituals for Experimentally Transforming Your Life in Ways Never Meant to Be Understood* When we conduct a Sacred Ecstatics intensive or healing session we always assign a mystical prescription for action that carries the experienced transformation back into your daily life. These experimental tasks and unexpected rituals have been…
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Don’t Forget Your Special Flashlight
Don’t forget your special flashlight, the one that has these seven words written on it: “I am the light of the world.” If you don’t have a small flashlight yet, then immediately go obtain one and make it ready. This flashlight is to remain with you always. If it ever voluntarily or involuntarily retires, replace…
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Joy, Better Felt Than Told
* * * A true sign of “getting spiritually cooked” — a Kalahari Bushman phrase for sacred ecstasy — is that you feel the happiest you have ever felt, far surpassing anything you could have previously imagined was possible. As Bushman doctor, /Kunta /Kace, describes this: “The feeling is so intense that you feel your…
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