Beyond joy is bliss.
Beyond bliss: Heaven's first deep kiss.
Few people know how to enter ecstasy--naturally. Some become addicted to money, power, gambling, danger, or sex-without-love.
Others choose to medicate rather than meditate (Week 36). For those who learn to open the chakras in a balanced way, the endocrine glands heal the body and create natural highs.
Ascending the chakras means integrating higher forms of pleasure. Each chakra must be explored and mastered.
The seven levels of pleasure are (corresponding to the chakras): relaxation, sensual pleasure, peace, human love, joy, bliss, and ecstasy (universal love).
Each level builds on the level below it. Each "higher" chakra is also opened by a deeper "inner" connection.
Sensual pleasure is not possible without the ability to relax. Peace is not possible without mastery of the physical dimension (the first three chakras).
Love is only a concept without self-love (inner peace). Joy sings forth from a happy heart.
Bliss comes to those who consciously nurture their joy, and find divine love everywhere. Ecstasy is the fruit of people sharing their light, of uniting in love with everything they see or touch.
There is no end to how high our ecstasy can ascend. When our minds become free of judgement, we transcend the limits of physical reality and begin growing on a higher level.
Every higher level has more subtle limitations and illusions--and freedoms.