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'''Bliss,''' intense joy, and happiness are all examples of the [[Positive Affect]] that is often the outcome of a positive, powerful, [[Zenith Experience]].   
'''Bliss''' is a primary [[Facet of Consciousness]]. Bliss is also an example of the [[Enhanced Positive Affect]] that is often the [[Connection Outcome]]  of a positive, powerful, [[Zenith Experience]].   
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==Syncretic Terms==
==Facets of Consciousness==
 
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==Examples==
 
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The central core of the experience seems to be the conviction, or insight, that the immediate now, whatever its nature, is the goal and fulfillment of all living. Surrounding and flowing from this insight is an emotional ecstasy, a sense of intense relief, freedom, and lightness, and often of almost unbearable love for the world...<ref>Watts, Alan W.. This Is It (p. 18). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote>
The central core of the experience seems to be the conviction, or insight, that the immediate now, whatever its nature, is the goal and fulfillment of all living. Surrounding and flowing from this insight is an emotional ecstasy, a sense of intense relief, freedom, and lightness, and often of almost unbearable love for the world...<ref>Watts, Alan W.. This Is It (p. 18). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.</ref></blockquote>


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Bliss is a primary Facet of Consciousness. Bliss is also an example of the Enhanced Positive Affect that is often the Connection Outcome of a positive, powerful, Zenith Experience.

Facets of Consciousness

Primary Facets of Consciousness >Awareness, Bliss

Examples

Enhanced Positive Affect > Beatific Vision, Bliss, Cosmic Religious Feeling, Ecstasy, Euphoria, Happiness, Rapture, Spiritual Emergence, Warmth

List of Connection Outcomes

Connection Outcome > Connection Pathology, Déjà vu, Emotional Cleansing, Emotional Satisfaction, Enlightenment, Existential Terrors, Healing, Liberation, Perfect Connection, Perfected Connection, Perfection, Permanent Connection, Physical Sensations, Psychotic Mysticism, Realization of Self, Ritambharapragya, Spontaneous Alignment, The Unity, Transformation, Union

Notes

Xolani Kacela: "In my own mystical experience, the intense joy and happiness that I felt was a major component of the event. Though I was not under the influence of any stimulant, I was filled with enormous exhilaration and emotion. [1]

Alan Watts comments on the association of ecstasy/bliss with Connection Experience.

The central core of the experience seems to be the conviction, or insight, that the immediate now, whatever its nature, is the goal and fulfillment of all living. Surrounding and flowing from this insight is an emotional ecstasy, a sense of intense relief, freedom, and lightness, and often of almost unbearable love for the world...[2]

Related LP Courses

Footnotes

  1. Kacela, Xolani. "Being One with the Spirit: Dimensions of a Mystical Experience." The Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling 60 1-2 (2006): 87.
  2. Watts, Alan W.. This Is It (p. 18). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.