Very much, you might also strike resonance with Carl Jungs typology of intuitive introversion if that's not something already on your radar.
There are some insightful teasers about it in interviews (Youtube) for the superficial first glimpse, and then of course the deep dive available in his work.
So deeply hit by this... Cosmic Sadness, so much Gratitude, and a painfully immense amount of Love are sitting inside my chest. Thank You, SBK, and You, SC, for putting this into the World. And SBK, it takes one to know one:p
"Yeah, that's awful close but that's not why I am so hard done by."
Sometimes I feel swallowed whole by the beauty and at the same time totally lost in the despair of the everyday of the world. I now know what to call it, if not yet how to live within it! Cosmic sadness.
I don't know what Maslow exactly intended by his idea of transcender but the descriptions here seem like they are mixing up what should be two categories, one being those who wish Transcendence -- and these are the people who turn to provoking peak experiences in one way or another -- and those who transcend. For the latter there is no return. Those that aspire to Transcendence keep falling back.
If Buddhism has anything to say about this, then the distinction between satori and samadhi is relevant.
As for those for whom there is no return, they do continue and in a way persist and "return" in that they stay visible in the community sometimes in a manner that keeps their Transcendence all but invisible while others become leaders or guides. There's a whole hierarchy.
At least some of the sadness the writer here touches upon is what follows a transcendent experience. Because it's an experience, it ends. When Transcendence occurs, there is no ending. So for those for whom Transcendence ends, there has to be sadness. They touch the sky and have fallen back. But -- and this is at least one part of why transcenders of this type are important both to themselves and to those around them -- they do confirm the sky is real, the beyond is accessible, and by their stammering descriptions show that it is something beyond words.
I enjoyed reading this but l am stuck more with the the verb to transcend.
I believe it is to rise above something so to see, feel, to create something above what it is therefore it is perceived as having some sort of a lacking.
To transcend; to see beauty in a broken vase.
To find the shattered shards and how they lay about by chance as poetical.
So on a more practical level a raccoon got into my car and ripped apart dry goods l had intended to take with me as l was moving to anew harm.
I found the floury footprint charming and thought all day about how the raccoons must have delighted in tasting this or that and scattered the content with glee.
A great piece. However, as with many other mysterious concepts -- like "active listening", for example -- describing how it looks or feels like is only the start. Ultimately, we want to understand what transcendence *is* -- that is, how it works. What happens in the mind of "transcender"? What makes them different?
In short, we want a theory of transcendence -- a model of it. 'Cause if we had that, we could figure out how to teach this quality to everyone, so there will be no more sadness, no more suffering, and no more death.
Well, that hit home.
Yep!
Very much, you might also strike resonance with Carl Jungs typology of intuitive introversion if that's not something already on your radar.
There are some insightful teasers about it in interviews (Youtube) for the superficial first glimpse, and then of course the deep dive available in his work.
So deeply hit by this... Cosmic Sadness, so much Gratitude, and a painfully immense amount of Love are sitting inside my chest. Thank You, SBK, and You, SC, for putting this into the World. And SBK, it takes one to know one:p
-deirdre
"Yeah, that's awful close but that's not why I am so hard done by."
Sometimes I feel swallowed whole by the beauty and at the same time totally lost in the despair of the everyday of the world. I now know what to call it, if not yet how to live within it! Cosmic sadness.
I don't know what Maslow exactly intended by his idea of transcender but the descriptions here seem like they are mixing up what should be two categories, one being those who wish Transcendence -- and these are the people who turn to provoking peak experiences in one way or another -- and those who transcend. For the latter there is no return. Those that aspire to Transcendence keep falling back.
If Buddhism has anything to say about this, then the distinction between satori and samadhi is relevant.
As for those for whom there is no return, they do continue and in a way persist and "return" in that they stay visible in the community sometimes in a manner that keeps their Transcendence all but invisible while others become leaders or guides. There's a whole hierarchy.
At least some of the sadness the writer here touches upon is what follows a transcendent experience. Because it's an experience, it ends. When Transcendence occurs, there is no ending. So for those for whom Transcendence ends, there has to be sadness. They touch the sky and have fallen back. But -- and this is at least one part of why transcenders of this type are important both to themselves and to those around them -- they do confirm the sky is real, the beyond is accessible, and by their stammering descriptions show that it is something beyond words.
Just sayin'...
Yes to all, with special highlight on:
1️⃣ “Recognizing & almost instant intimacy & mutual understanding upon first meeting”.
-Like a new-old friend or “soulmate-like” vibes.
2️⃣ “Tend to beautify all things — including things that may seem ugly to most people.”
-Been told to have an eye for photography & able to see/bring out the “beauty” in those hardest to love.
I enjoyed reading this but l am stuck more with the the verb to transcend.
I believe it is to rise above something so to see, feel, to create something above what it is therefore it is perceived as having some sort of a lacking.
To transcend; to see beauty in a broken vase.
To find the shattered shards and how they lay about by chance as poetical.
So on a more practical level a raccoon got into my car and ripped apart dry goods l had intended to take with me as l was moving to anew harm.
I found the floury footprint charming and thought all day about how the raccoons must have delighted in tasting this or that and scattered the content with glee.
A great piece. However, as with many other mysterious concepts -- like "active listening", for example -- describing how it looks or feels like is only the start. Ultimately, we want to understand what transcendence *is* -- that is, how it works. What happens in the mind of "transcender"? What makes them different?
In short, we want a theory of transcendence -- a model of it. 'Cause if we had that, we could figure out how to teach this quality to everyone, so there will be no more sadness, no more suffering, and no more death.
— “ WE “ •••• LIKE TO CALL THIS ….“the GODMAN“, … OR, “ the Godmen “ … ACCORDING TO BIBLICAL STUDIES . . . .