Power of Ecstatic Postures
Felicitas Goodman’s big contribution to the world is her discovery of the power of the shamanic body postures of the hunter-gatherers, ancient and contemporary. Incorporating these postures in her designed ritual for the induction of ecstatic trance has shown the power of these postures, but the importance of the postures goes well beyond the part they play in inducing trance ecstatically. The sacred postures bring healing to a much higher level when also used with guided imagery and hypnosis, and they have opened a whole new door as to where ecstatic trance can take us. Before her death she was following this new direction as seen in her interest in Rupert Sheldrake.
Rupert Sheldrake’s concept of the morphic field, a field of information or knowledge that comes from beyond the individual’s physical brain or consciousness we call the world of the spirits, spirits that can come from the Earth and from our ancestors. The morphic field or world of the spirits is not just a field that encapsules a specific being but encapsules the entire species and then all species. These ancestors are not just our human ancestors, but earlier ancestors, the spirits of the animals and other life, and before that, spirits of the substances and all features of the Earth. These spirits have so much to show us and teach us. This knowledge from the world of the spirits is accessed when in ecstatic trance, but it can be accessed from well beyond ecstatic trance, again from the use of guided imagery, hypnosis and from our nighttime dreams.
I believe that Felilcitas Goodman was on the edge of opening us to this whole new world of the spirits accessed through ecstatic trance. We know that ecstatic trance can heal us of our physical and emotional problems, and it can carry us to higher levels of spirituality, which is especially meaningful with the coronavirus pandemic. Those of us who practice ecstatic trance have experienced this healing and spiritual growth, growth that led me to write “The Power of Ecstatic Trance,” but it does much more. From my research of the thousands of ecstatic trance experiences I have collected, I realized that when using the Hallstatt Warrior Posture from the 5th century B.C. I was commune with my own German ancestors, but these ancestral journeys continued and led me to Scandinavia and to write “Baldr’s Magic.” While traveling in Scandinavia the spirits of the Earth came to me, spirits that opened me to the stories of antiquity and led me to write “Beowulf’s Ecstatic Trance Magic.” But doors kept opening. Next I found the spirits showing me and our ecstatic trance groups the need and how to heal the Earth, leading me to write “Trance Journeys of the Hunter-Gatherers.”
But the psychologist inside of me was calling, and I wanted to show how Ecstatic Trance can improve the process of psychotherapy, calling me to write “Ecstatic Soul Retrieval: Shamanism and Psychotherapy.” Then most recently in bringing Ecstatic Trance and the power of the Ecstatic Postures more into the academic domain of psychology for expanding the use of Dreamwork, Guided Imagery, and Clinical Hypnosis I wrote “Applying the Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Therapy: Resolving the Unconscious Past.” With the dedicated use of Ecstatic Trance whole new worlds of the spirits open to us.
Rupert Sheldrake’s concept of the morphic field, a field of information or knowledge that comes from beyond the individual’s physical brain or consciousness we call the world of the spirits, spirits that can come from the Earth and from our ancestors. The morphic field or world of the spirits is not just a field that encapsules a specific being but encapsules the entire species and then all species. These ancestors are not just our human ancestors, but earlier ancestors, the spirits of the animals and other life, and before that, spirits of the substances and all features of the Earth. These spirits have so much to show us and teach us. This knowledge from the world of the spirits is accessed when in ecstatic trance, but it can be accessed from well beyond ecstatic trance, again from the use of guided imagery, hypnosis and from our nighttime dreams.
I believe that Felilcitas Goodman was on the edge of opening us to this whole new world of the spirits accessed through ecstatic trance. We know that ecstatic trance can heal us of our physical and emotional problems, and it can carry us to higher levels of spirituality, which is especially meaningful with the coronavirus pandemic. Those of us who practice ecstatic trance have experienced this healing and spiritual growth, growth that led me to write “The Power of Ecstatic Trance,” but it does much more. From my research of the thousands of ecstatic trance experiences I have collected, I realized that when using the Hallstatt Warrior Posture from the 5th century B.C. I was commune with my own German ancestors, but these ancestral journeys continued and led me to Scandinavia and to write “Baldr’s Magic.” While traveling in Scandinavia the spirits of the Earth came to me, spirits that opened me to the stories of antiquity and led me to write “Beowulf’s Ecstatic Trance Magic.” But doors kept opening. Next I found the spirits showing me and our ecstatic trance groups the need and how to heal the Earth, leading me to write “Trance Journeys of the Hunter-Gatherers.”
But the psychologist inside of me was calling, and I wanted to show how Ecstatic Trance can improve the process of psychotherapy, calling me to write “Ecstatic Soul Retrieval: Shamanism and Psychotherapy.” Then most recently in bringing Ecstatic Trance and the power of the Ecstatic Postures more into the academic domain of psychology for expanding the use of Dreamwork, Guided Imagery, and Clinical Hypnosis I wrote “Applying the Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Therapy: Resolving the Unconscious Past.” With the dedicated use of Ecstatic Trance whole new worlds of the spirits open to us.
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