Tapping Into the Ecstatic Realm: What Lies Beyond Illusions
Last October, I had a moment of seeing into and connecting with what’s behind this 3D illusory world.
It came unexpectedly, during a time when I was walking close to the border between this world and the afterlife. An individual with whom I had a unique connection was transitioning out of this world, and the day before I had facilitated a healing session for two siblings whose father had just passed away. The veil, therefore, was thin in my world.
I had woken up that morning with some pains in my body and was guided to shift the symptoms using my consciousness the way I had been trained by Spirit earlier in the year. Within a short time, they shifted. I basked in the sensations of relief and having released something heavy from my system, a deep cleanse.
It was still dark outside. As I sat down on the floor of my living room looking out into my garden – a spot where for months I would begin every day doing my spiritual practice – I laid out some candle-holders in front of me. In my line of sight, an animal skull resting at the base of a tree faced me. Several months earlier, I had facilitated a Connecting With Spirit Guides workshop and realised that my beloved, most powerful spirit guide resided in that skull, watching over me in the physical realm. I was gazing at the dots of flame illuminating the space when two of the candle-holders shaped like lotuses began to morph and opened up the fabric of this reality to reveal another dimension.
I began to perceive the sacred geometry of Life, as this other realm of existence came into my view. I saw what else is here, besides the tangible world made up of things we can only perceive with our five senses. In this dimension, only the eternal exists. Sacred formations displayed before my eyes, a dance of cosmic movements, blinking in and out of infinite planes unknown to mere mortals. This other realm transcends the mundane world, and it showed me clearly that the mundane world is not the majority of Existence.
It was truly beautiful, not just visually but in that it imbued me with a sense of knowing something. I was peering through the veil into a dimension that is always here yet in our mundane lives we don’t see it or connect with it. I danced with it, savouring its beauty and expansiveness. The words “divine ecstasy” came through. I realised I was performing an “ecstatic practice”, connecting with this exquisite realm that is always here. I knew this is the way of life I want from then on: to always be connected to this realm in the background of my practical life.
It was truly beautiful, not just visually but in that it imbued me with a sense of knowing something. I was peering through the veil into a dimension that is always here yet in our mundane lives we don’t see it or connect with it. I danced with it, savouring its beauty and expansiveness. The words “divine ecstasy” came through. I realised I was performing an “ecstatic practice”, connecting with this exquisite realm that is always here. I knew this is the way of life I want from then on: to always be connected to this realm in the background of my practical life.
This was not the first time I had connected with this realm. Some years ago, the death of a beloved cracked open my consciousness in a massive way and I was shown a realm where we would meet and reunite beyond this world he no longer existed in. I was presented with unfathomable beauty and learned that we do not die, not really. Our continued relationship, now elevated to divine levels, was so deeply-fulfilling that I was content to never be in a physical relationship again, for it paled in comparison to what I discovered beyond, and it seemed primitive in contrast to what I now knew.
In this 3D world, people look for relationships outside of themselves, seeking this something, but what they find cannot even remotely match this exquisite connection. The truth is, we can access this connection at any time. It begins with acknowledging the existence of this ecstatic realm that lies behind all suffering (maya, 3D).
Locating The Entrypoint
Slow Down and Find That Door.
As long as you keep rushing, hurrying, running – you will keep operating in a superficial world. Beneath this tangible world, there is a world teeming with wonders and unimaginable beauty. Yet the majority of people operate in a mundane life of daily struggles and avoidance of hardships. The idea that they need not be trapped in such a world, that there is an alternative, is so far-fetched they dismiss it as fantasy.
What if I tell you that not only is this real, accessing it is easier than you may think? In movies, we tend to see the characters pursuing an artifact, an advanced technology, a prized tool, that will open a portal to another dimension. That prized artifact is already in you. You already possess the key.
Everything you need to open up your perception to a higher realm is here. Hidden in plain sight.
Whilst there are external factors beyond your control, your breath is in the domain of your control. It is up to you how fast or slow you breathe, and this is one of the elements of the most powerful technology we have: our consciousness.
When you slow down your breath – by stretching out the pace of your breathing – you can access secret mystical doors to higher dimensions. As you breathe very slowly, somewhere along your in-breath or out-breath you will click with an entrypoint. As you rest your awareness on this point, a space will open up before you. It should feel warming, soothing and embracing.
Gaze at the Immaterial.
Take out some of your investment of belief from the tangible world, and divert it towards the immaterial. Defocus from what you can readily see and invest your energy in what appears to be empty or nothing.
Your thoughts, especially judgemental thoughts, about your physical reality are what keep it alive and unchanging. The more you buy into the realness of the problems, issues, challenges in the physical world, the more stuck you are and prevented from experiencing anything else apart from it.
Gaze at the spaces in-between, lightly and with curiosity. You’re simply resting your awareness there, without forcing something to happen. The lightest touch is the most powerful.
Flow With Your Feelings.
If you stay in the immaterial, something will reach out and touch you. You will know by the feelings invoked in you.
You may or may not see shapes like I did that time (I don’t always do). The something-that-touches-you can be in different forms.
Let your feelings move you. Flow with the movements of these feelings. Revel in the depths you’re taken to.
By staying in this state, you are in ecstatic practice – becoming one with the ecstatic realm.
Following my experience with the sacred geometry dance that early morning, I flashed back to a recent moment of sitting next to my cat Indriel on the sofa while engrossed in my laptop. I had suddenly noticed she was sitting up very close to me and I asked, “What are you doing?” I went back to my computer but after a while I was drawn back to her, as there was something unusual in the way she held herself. Although her eyes were almost closed, she was sat up, alert, lightly purring, as if in a trance. It caught my attention because it told me she was in a state of high awareness.
Now, as I tuned into what she was experiencing back then, I realised she was basking in pure ecstatic love – the love that existed between us. I was amazed. This creature was connecting with the ecstasy of eternal love and here I was totally oblivious to this exquisite realm that was right here, right now. She is indeed my little ball of love; pure consciousness. And she was reminding me and guiding me to reach into that realm.
I felt divinely-led to the path of the ecstatic. It was not surprising that when it came time to do my end-of-year sacred visioning, my theme for 2025 was The Ecstatic. It encompasses so much; it changes and elevates everything in how I do life.
This year, we are ALL invited to see beyond the mundane, in a radical way. Once we know that everything contains the potential for the ecstatic, life becomes more beautiful, love-filled and divinely-meaningful.
Such an amazing article! I read it for the second time today. Ironically, I think I read through it too fast the first time.
Today I savored it! I love the sense of “knowing something”I try to keep that alive inside be.
“Invest your energy in what appears to be empty or nothing,” I’m learning this more and more! The magic door starts to open.
For 2025 my mantra is slowing down. Currently, I’m trying to understand the difference between slowing down vs not moving. I’m confident they taste completely different and that it’s only my mind imposing an illusion on me that I need to get moving!
I’m ready to be ecstatic!
Such beautiful sharing, Molly. The difference between slowing down and not moving. By “not moving” I assume you mean in the sense of staying stuck.
Ironically, slowing down allows you to move quicker, be more response, act at the highest level of guidance. As the data you receive is purer and it allows for divine guidance to reach you – therefore, making your actions swift and effective, often bypassing multiple steps you would have taken if you’d been running from place to place.
When you slow down, you come into Quiet Power, the most powerful state.
Love and Blessings,
Amyra xxx