So let me read Nietzsche's description,
which is in Edinger here. This is
Edinger saying, "I want to give you an
example. This will do it much better than
any talk can do of the kind of ecstasis
that Nietzsche could fall into. He
describes it in his book _Ecce Homo_,
This is Nietzsche speaking, 'Has anyone in
the end of the 19th Century had
any idea of what poets have called
"inspiration"? If not, I will describe it: If
one has the slightest residue of
superstition left in one's system, one
could hardly reject altogether the idea
that one is merely incarnation; merely
mouthpiece; merely a medium of
overpowering forces. The concept of
Revelation in a sense suddenly of
indescribable certainty and subtlety;
something becomes visible, audible;
something that shakes one to the last
depths and throws one down.
That really describes the facts.
One hears, one does not seek; one accepts,
one does not ask , 'Who gives?';  like lightning
a thought flashes up, from necessity
without hesitation regarding its form. I
never had a choice! A rapture whose
tremendous tension occasionally
discharges itself in a flood of tears!
Now the pace quickens involuntarily; now
it becomes slow.  One is altogether beside
oneself with the distinct consciousness
of subtle shudders and have one skin
creeping down to one's toes. Depth of
happiness in which even what is more
painful and gloomy does not seem
something opposite, but rather condition.
Everything happens involuntarily--to the
highest degree and a gale of feeling of
freedom; of absoluteness of power; of
divinity; the involuntariness of image
and metaphor the strangest of all! One no
longer has no notion
of what is an image or metaphor!
Everything offers itself as the nearest
and most obvious, simplest expression.
Here all things come caressingly to
your discourse and flatter you, for
they want to ride on your back! On every
metaphor you ride to every Truth. The
words and word shrines of all beings
open up before you; here all being wishes
to become word. All becoming wishes to
learn from you how to speak.'" Okay, I
couldn't say it any better! But I
mean, that's kind of it! And that's kind
of the way it came, and I'm sure you
would agree, right? [Voice] But you don't have to
go through this to Individuate, do you? No no no no no no no I'm,
[Voice] You can work on little pieces of it. [Laughter] Absolutely, but I mean let me give
you another example: When I was
doing drawing and things ...  when I
when I was doing drawing and things,
I was working with colored pencil at one
point. I had two photographs of my
parents from when they were ... when my
Mother was a graduate from high school,
so she was 18, and obviously very
beautiful and lovely, and my Father was
graduating from the Naval Academy. And so
I started to do these drawings from
those pictures. First of all I
started to do it very pedantically, where
I made this crosshatch on the
page and I was very carefully drawing
all the outlines, and trying to get
it just right, and then I started to draw
it in, and something, it was late at night
and about 11 o'clock or 11:30 at night
all of a sudden something clicked and it
was just like ... it came!
It was just magical!
I kept drawing and I drew the two
pictures, and in the morning my Mother
came down and looked at them and she
just burst into tears. She took the
two photographs off the wall, and
put my two pictures up. She couldn't
stand to look at the photographs anymore!
[Voice] And you were how old? I was, I don't know. I was  55 or something like that!
[Voice] On the refrigerator, right? No, but I, you
know, it was like a power took over my
hand, and I I just couldn't do anything
wrong. [Voice] Is this like, is this something
like Dr. Jung did with The Red Book?
Well it is related to The Red Book.
Absolutely!
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