Why the name “World as Ecstasy?”
The name comes from a section in Alan Watts’ book Nature, Man and Woman. In it, Watts explores ecstasy and its connection to sexuality from a Taoist perspective and critiques the Christian view of sex as sinful, arguing for a more natural, intuitive approach.
Pain, he writes, is a potential catalyst for something deeper. A kind of transcendence. Something bordering on the mystical, taking you to the threshold where pain and pleasure intersect, offering a glimpse of what's in the beyond, the sense of what some in the BDSM community would call Space, and others would say is the sense of the sublime.
World as Ecstasy is where we explore what that means.
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Everything written is done so by a man who, because he has several Alive Days, lives at that threshold. Viktor E. Mares understands what it means to feel like surviving and suddenly seeing the magic in all things.
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