{"id":71,"date":"2017-01-07T13:28:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T01:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mooncrowned.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2018-09-16T01:28:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T01:28:30","slug":"shamanic-ecstatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Shamanic, Ecstatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Notes made while reading \u201cA Deed Without a Name\u201d by Lee Morgan.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"text_line\" data-position=\"8:12:52:6:0\" data-endposition=\"8:12:66:0:0\" data-complex=\"0\">An \u2018ecstatic\u2019 is a type of mystic who<span data-selectable=\"0\" data-singlespace=\"1\" data-lineend=\"1\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"text_line\" data-position=\"8:12:66:0:0\" data-endposition=\"8:12:78:2:0\" data-complex=\"0\">leaves or transcends the flesh in powerful visions and has congress with an<\/span><span class=\"text_line\" data-position=\"8:12:78:2:0\" data-endposition=\"8:12:94:0:0\" data-complex=\"0\">other world. But a \u2018shaman\u2019 is one who uses this ability to perform a service for<span data-selectable=\"0\" data-singlespace=\"1\" data-lineend=\"1\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"text_line\" data-position=\"8:12:94:0:0\" data-endposition=\"8:12:109:0:0\" data-complex=\"0\">their community.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Traditional witches perform latter function.<\/p>\n<p>See ecstatic vision as growing out of biological experience &#8220;as a plant does from soil.&#8221; Sensual experience used to reach trance: drumming, dance, sex, imbibing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>As above, so below = Upperworld in heads, Underworld in guts, and thus joined to cosmos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes made while reading \u201cA Deed Without a Name\u201d by Lee Morgan. An \u2018ecstatic\u2019 is a type of mystic who\u00a0 leaves or transcends the flesh in powerful visions and has congress with another world. But a \u2018shaman\u2019 is one who uses this ability to perform a service for\u00a0 their community. Traditional witches perform latter function. See ecstatic vision as growing out of biological experience &#8220;as a plant does from soil.&#8221; Sensual experience used to reach trance: drumming, dance, sex, imbibing, etc. As above, so below = Upperworld in heads, Underworld in guts, and thus joined to cosmos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,82],"tags":[4,13,23,27,31,35],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-book-notes","tag-a-deed-without-a-name","tag-ecstatic","tag-lee-morgan","tag-mystic","tag-shaman","tag-traditional-witchcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/witch.mooncrowned.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}