Mysterium Tremens

[holley]

Frequently camp at HO'Okena Beach and stride to Place of Refuge/Two Step and back (@9mi).
The physical exertion and surrounding beauty open transcendent realms, similar to the effects of bodywork.
On a recent visit to New York City, vaulted into similar space on a visit to St. John The Divine, the world's largest cathedral. These disparate encounters with sacred space prompt me to ask; where and how do you enter into the Myterium Tremens?

[GreenDragonfly]

I've heard that it happens in certain special places in Arizona. Can't remember what that place is called though. For me personally, it is when I am in a forest - pretty much any forest.

[pueppi]

I think that I am not fascinated and afraid in too many instances... it's usually one or the other (I kind of categorized Mysterium Tremens in that line). But, I think from this thread what you are suggesting is looking deeper into a fascinating mystery and finding an aware and calm point all rolled up into one. I tried to find a definition of these words, but I couldn't, so I am not so sure.

For what I think you are asking: I lay on a small outcropping of stone, somewhere in the desert, below a cliff, but above the ground. While I lay there, looking above at the eagles soaring effortlessly into the sun, sending out a vocalization to the other in the air pocket above, I also hear the water moving past me, down-aways and to the right. Here, I am at peace. Here I appreciate on a higher plane the world around me. Big Bend is where I am at home.

[holley]

http://atomsofthought.wordpress.com/201 ... n-excerpt/

Nice plunge into the mysterium tremens

[EgoMagickian]

http://atomsofthought.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/why-words-matter-in-the-words-of-diane-ackerman-an-excerpt/

Nice plunge into the mysterium tremens

That was lovely... appreciated her conclusion about the magic of language.

[holley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJUrbset5HU

[holley]

Autopsies evoke fear and trembling within me, reminds me of our mortality and the wonder of life. GRAPHIC autopsy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlPGuq5V ... ure=relmfu