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    <title>Gaia: JOY SOULutions: Enjoy, Share &amp; Inspire  - JOY as a JOURNEY &amp; PURPOSE - Blisstasy.</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:52:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Blisstasy.</title>
      <author>http://ian-maleny.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Ian Gardner</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-244131</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:52:33 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      Of course, Meenakshi! we can say anything we like [as long as we remain aware of the Reality!! &lt;strong&gt;:-) ].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Re: Blisstasy.</title>
      <author>http://Meenakshi.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator> Meenakshi</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-243786</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:01:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://groups.gaia.com/joy/conversations/view/243724#243786</link>
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&lt;p&gt;      I like blisstasy. I like new words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can I say it makes me joyful? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Blisstasy.</title>
      <author>http://ian-maleny.gaia.com</author>
      <dc:creator>Ian Gardner</dc:creator>
      <guid>tag:gaia.com,2008:Gaia-243724</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:22:51 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;      &lt;div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;For a long time I have been dissatisfied with the words &lt;em&gt;joy&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; bliss&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; love&lt;/em&gt; et al as a description of&lt;span style="color: red"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;what really exists at a spiritual level. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;This morning, when lying in bed in the hynopompic state of being between sleep and wakefulness, thought started flowing to resolve this search and I let it flow. I saw clues like that state of &lt;em&gt;serene being&lt;/em&gt; which is non-emotional &lt;em&gt;joy&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; bliss&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; love&lt;/em&gt; et al, and therefore &lt;em&gt;pure&lt;/em&gt; or unaffected by the vagaries of emotion, and was aware that I had to search for a suitable term.&lt;span style="color: #3366ff"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;The result of this was that I looked up a dictionary for &lt;em&gt;serene&lt;/em&gt;, the various meanings of &lt;em&gt;bliss&lt;/em&gt;, and the origin of both &lt;em&gt;bliss&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;ecstasy&lt;/em&gt;, and came up with the phrase &lt;em&gt;a quality of being&lt;/em&gt; &amp;ndash; that quality of being which, when considered by the mind (mented), creates emotion but, when experienced, is without emotion. I found that &lt;em&gt;serene &lt;/em&gt;means peaceful, blissful, clear, bright; that&lt;span style="color: #3366ff"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;one meaning of &lt;em&gt;bliss&lt;/em&gt; is &amp;ldquo;ecstatic joy of heaven&amp;rdquo; and that ecstasy derives from the Greek &lt;em&gt;existanai&lt;/em&gt; = to displace. This in turn led me to look for a single word to encapsulate what is described in Earthly terms as&lt;span style="color: #3366ff"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;joy&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; bliss&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; love&lt;/em&gt; et al.&lt;span style="color: #3366ff"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I finally came up with a combination of &lt;em&gt;bliss&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;ecstasy&lt;/em&gt; - that is &lt;em&gt;blisstasy&lt;/em&gt;. There is no verb for &lt;em&gt;blisstasy&lt;/em&gt; because it is something one &amp;lsquo;is&amp;rsquo; &amp;ndash; a quality or state of being &amp;ndash; not something one does. However, one can use the word &lt;em&gt;blisstatic (adj.)&lt;/em&gt; to describe the spiritual, or thought, state but not the mental state. This is because the spiritual state cannot be the mental state and vice versa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;So now, as I see it, &lt;em&gt;joy&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; bliss&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; love&lt;/em&gt; et al are earthly soul experiences, or emotions, and &lt;em&gt;blisstasy&lt;/em&gt; is that permanent state we seek through enlightenment and I will use the words accordingly in future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;In conclusion:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt; Blisstasy means &amp;ldquo;That spiritual &amp;lsquo;quality of being&amp;rsquo; or &amp;#39;state of being&amp;#39; which is beyond the physical/mental (emotional) experience and surpasses &lt;em&gt;joy&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; bliss&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;em&gt; love&lt;/em&gt; et al.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will now post this new word in my blog &amp;ldquo;New Words Coined&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

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