When a person is able to easily watch over it, they will arrive at an evident discovery, that they have entered an ascending path in emotional experience, moving toward higher and better states of the spirit. There will be an evident finding that they are going towards heaven and this is then a result of walking a constantly ascending path through life. Even the sense of vision will develop for this perception. Those joyful states, mirrored only in feeling, will suddenly reveal themselves as a path leaving human life, which sinuates from suffering to pleasures, and then entering paradises, which, if they aren’t visually perceived immediately, will begin to be gradually perceived more and more. After stabilising themselves on the ascending path of developed causeless joyfulness, everyone will be able to clearly detect, that they are on a path into sensorily perceivable heavens. If they behave correctly, they will learn that even heavenly experience isn’t in essence a desirable experience; that only peace above joys is acceptable, because it is a state of inner inexcitability, while joys occurring from the subhuman states up to the heavenly ones contain something imperfect and disintegrative in them. But, joyfulness is not only an emotional state. It is a tingeing factor, which will take hold of a human being as an object and transform it; and this transformation of the being is actually the point. For, no matter what philosophies exist about the solving of life, psychological and philosophical problems, the unchangeable fact remains, that the mind and consciousness are only filled with that, with which the qualities of the body are filling them. In this regard, causeless joyfulness, which has filled up the body by means of will, begins to have a feedback effect. If this joyfulness corresponds qualitatively to heaven or heavenly states, however high they might be, it will always internally fill up the person. This is the basic condition of an evident certainty, that a person is already released from inner contents belonging to humanness and often literally overwhelmed by inner contents qualitatively corresponding to heaven. No. Mysticism really isn’t concerned with chimeras or some philosophy which will in the end suggest to a person some peculiar thoughts, images, convictions and other similar things of a psychological character. The point in it is only a change of the inner content, which is in the common humanness documented by fluctuation of the consciousness from sensory joys, which have a character of sensory excitements, to experiences of suffering, which are perceived as reality. Therefore, the mystical practice is about an attack of will on the existing inner set-up, which lets us oscillate from sensory pleasures of a dubious value, to suffering. The will is forcing causeless joyfulness on the being for so long till the being accepts this content and begins to have an effect with it into the consciousness, where it will then manifest itself as a new content, in this case always supertelluric and spiritual, though usually with a touch of supersensory happiness. Because of this reason, practical mysticism can be classified into the scientific system of psychological forming, which, through the use of joyfulness, reshapes the whole inner beingness. It will change its emotional states and by means of qualitatively improved joyfulness will raise it in an objective sense, from sensuality into transcendence. The only point is thus joyfulness, predominantly a causeless one. Those who do not apply this joyfulness, because they believe that it is not the right 38 (6) Květoslav Minařík
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