sacred power as dangerous
mana - Maori / Polynesian
    - a supernatural force believed to dwell in a person or sacred object [AHD3]
huna - Hawaiian / Polynesian
    aka body
        aka threads
        law of contagion
prana - Sanskrit
    - subtle or vital breathe of the cosmos / energy
        AUM
        establishing a connection between the macrocosm and the microcosm
ecstasy / rapture
    mysticism
        danger of loss of self
        threatening to the established hierarchy
            "uncontrolled" experience of the sacred
            religion as a defence against having a religious experience
            intermediaries between the "common" people and the sacred
            mystics normally supressed, or ignored until safely dead
    heresy
        Gnostics
        Catharism
    authenticity of the experience
        a greater "reality"
        Jeanne d'Arc
            1412? - 1431
        convinces independent of logic
            Mary Baker Eddy
                Christian Science - 1879
            Joseph Smith
                Mormons - 1830
                    Palmyra, New York / Illinois / Salt Lake City, Utah
        mob reactions
            fear / panic
            maenads - cult of Dionysus
            pheromones [see Sexuality]
            super-signalling
    shamanism [see Shamanism]
        universal ability to have experience of the sacred
the force
    Star Wars
    The Lord of the Rings
    tapping into archetypal energies [see Archetypes]
chi / ki
    - spirit, energy, mind
    Taoism [see Tao]
    martial arts
        the body's energy can be focused or channeled
    ji-riki
        - inside power
        self-reliance
        evocation
            - calling up from within
    ta-riki
        - outside power
        salvation from without
        invocation
            - calling in from without
sublime
    awe inspiring
        reverence, respect, dread, & wonder
    monsterous
        energies too large for humans to contain / understand
epiphany
    - a sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something [AHD3]
    - a comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization [AHD3]
enlightenment [see Enlightenment]
peak moment [Abraham H. Maslow]
    transitory
the animal way
    hunter / gatherer cultures
        older / with us from the beginnings of humanity
    release to freedom
        killing
    modern chaos theory
        seemingly random location within a range / boundaries
the plant way
    agricultural cultures
        10,000 years old
    bondage
    rootedness to the earth
        fixed location
    replanting
sex
    the great rite
    tantric sex
sacred places
    natural
        caves
            fire lit
        great heights / great depths
        groves / forests
            old growth trees
        bodies of water
            entrance to other world
            life-giving
    man-made
        gardens
        temples
        mazes / paths
            labyrinths / unicursal mazes
        megalithic sites
            stone / bone more "real"