Ecstatic poetry is a visionary practice that seeks to connect both poet and reader to their innate longing for their essence.
After over a decade of study, teaching, and collaboration, Brandon’s research in the field of ecstatic poetry was published in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Volume 52, Issue 2. This peer-reviewed article affirms that ecstatic poetry has the potential to cultivate mystical experiences and can facilitate profound personal and spiritual transformation. It is a foundational work in defining ecstatic poetry. This article is also a leading voice for placing ecstatic poetry within the visionary art paradigm. The Ecstatic Learning Model (ELM) is presented, and terms are coined such as essence experience, poetic listening, and artistic midwifery.
Read the article “The Practice and Path of Ecstatic Poetry” in its entirety here:
“Ecstatic poetry is a visionary art that can be wielded as a force for profound good, both within individual lives and in the world at large. Ecstatic poetry is also teachable, and when married with intention and practice can come alive in a poet-practitioner’s life as an unending journey of transformative creation.”