Drunk in God (Sufi)

The Sufi concept of ecstatic union with the divine, equated by Alexander with the state of truly pleasing oneself.

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Pleasing Yourself
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The core prescription of the chapter: making what truly pleases you at the deepest level, which Alexander argues is the key to creating all living structure and the path to the I.

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Being drunk in Godconcept0.829
Sufi phrase for a blithe, unfettered state where one is free of concepts and fully alive—associated with the deepest life.
Sufismconcept0.736
Islamic mystical tradition whose notion of 'being drunk in God' describes the state where life is most alive and free.
The quality of life visible in examples is described by mystical writers as ‘being drunk in God’.claim0.728
Links the aesthetic quality to cross‑cultural mystical experience.
spiritconcept0.690
A dimension of the environment linked to wholeness and the sacred, beyond material concerns.
Gift to Godconcept0.690
The intention to make something humble and free of self-aggrandizement, as an offering to the divine.
immanent Godconcept0.689
The idea that God is present in all matter, and that this shining forth is more visible in some things than others.
God (traditional religious concept)concept0.676
The personal God of historical religions, whose unshakable belief focused attention on wholeness and enabled the creation of living structure.
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Method for extracting linear directions by subtracting mean activations of contrastive groups; used to define the Assistant Axis