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For a long time I had been dissatisfied with the words joy, bliss, love etc. as a description of what really exists at a spiritual level. One 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 serene being which is non-emotional joy, bliss, love etc., and therefore pure or unaffected by the vagaries of emotion, and was aware that I had to search for a suitable term.The result of this was that I looked up a dictionary for “serene”, the various meanings of bliss, and the origin of both bliss and ecstasy, and came up with the phrase "a quality of being" – that quality of being which, when considered by the mind (mented), creates emotion but, when experienced, is without emotion. I found that serene means peaceful, blissful, clear, bright; that one meaning of bliss is “ecstatic joy of heaven” and that ecstasy derives from the Greek existanai = to displace. This in turn led me to look for a single word to encapsulate what is described in Earthly terms as joy, bliss, love etc. I finally came up with a combination of bliss and ecstasy - that is blisstasy. There is no verb for blisstasy because it is something one ‘is’ – a quality or state of being – not something one does. However, one can use the word blisstatic (adj.) 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. So now, as I see it, joy, bliss, love etc.  are earthly soul experiences, or emotions, and blisstasy is that permanent state we seek through enlightenment and I will use the words accordingly in future. In conclusion: Blisstasy means “That spiritual ‘quality of being’ or ‘state of being’ which is beyond the physical/mental (emotional) experience and surpasses joy, bliss, love etc.

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