#CognitiveMusic #HighWeirdness

thinking this morning about links/differences between deity-visualization in #tantra and the spiritual exercises of St #Ignatius; the latter is explicitly couched in terms of empathy, relationship w/literally anthropomorphized god (i.e. jesus), while the former calls for imaginative projection/assumption into what we might call deity-consciousness

both are 'archaic techniques of #ecstasy' (#eliade's description of #shamanism)