For all Sufis, visionary inebriation is only developmental stage, not the final aim. The ecstatic breakthrough is a bud that hopefully blossoms into an experience of " the hidden dimension beyond the metaphorical drunkenness." The goal is not sacred intoxication, but rather tasting True Reality, being transformed by it, and then, instead of staying absorbed in the effulgence of nonexistence (called Adam), returning to tell others about the truth of immortal life. Whatever one can't prove, one can only believe in. And just because something can't be nailed down doesn't mean it isn't there. A skeptic is like a unrequited lover who assures himself that love doesn't exist. The Naqshbandi are known variously as the silent, the masters of the diagram, or the painters. Practice sober Sufism. "in our order, you have few visions, clarifying " we are not about entrancement and the opening of spiritual states..
Things we can only understand through intuition, or the imagination. Spontaneities are things embedded in the human matrix, things all cultures have always spontaneously resonated to - like love, and the life force." Whether it's called God, or the Absolute, Eternity, or Truth, its a heightened reality that cannot be analyzed, understood, or taken in. It is inaccessible. It is in the hiddenness. The life force is a way of interpreting about it. This vitalize hypothesis has been forwarded by everyone from Heraclitus (who saw the life force as celestial lightning transforming into water) to Schopenhauer (who viewed "the will to live" as in irrational, unintelligible urge.) It's a fundamental principle in spiritual philosophy- agree or not???
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