…the archetypes? There is no archetype for this. Not in the painting of the bushmen, not in the ecstasies of Hildegard von Bingen, not in the ravings of mandian ecstatics. Humanity, spiritual experience, never got this deep, never tore open this doorway. And…

…physical pain accompanies these things. And people have extracted information from the state, used it. The 13th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen is known for a series of prayers and paintings, very odd paintings, that it now has been pretty conclusively…

…matter of conjecture or faith or it exists. This is very close to the religious ecstasis of Mother Theresa or Hildegard von Bingen or Meister Eckhart or Thomas Treherne or any of those folks, except that they were apparently exceptional personalities who…