Meditacija, kontempliacija, ekstremalios būklės: lietuva ir rytai
Meditation, contemplation, extremely conditions: lithuania and east

Summary/Abstract: This article is analyzing the extremely conditions you can meat in Lithuanian and Baltic traditions, which remind to something, what is expressed in East as meditation and contemplation. These conditions have remained in Lithuanian village festivals, in thoughtful “Rūpintojėliai”(crucifix)–village idols case, who are in the pose of contemplating, and in the songs which in Lithuania had without a doubt „exit“ trance function and was suitable for each gender and every sphere of human activity. There are also ancient Indo-European and only in India remaining pupil/tutor relation in the relations of shepherds and their teacher herdsman (skerdþiaus/kerdþiaus – lt.) relation and in the archetypical object of this teaching. There could be special exclusion made for the beggars and tramps (elgetos, ubagai – lt. ) who betake the religious practices in the old age, after growing the family, while traveling from one religious centre to the other, feeding on the charity, and most often trying not to stay under one roof for two nights; this perfectly reminds an Indian ascetic “asketus”. There are people who leave their bodies by their own will and in the trance traveling to faraway places and experiencing the things having to do with “far ” and people who turn themselves into wolves, travel to the border of the see (už jūrų krašto – lt.) to fight with vicious wizards who steal the fertility and other goods; these people receive their gift form generation to generation and in 17th–18th centuries are still rather honored, but condemned and related with demonic sphere in 19th–20th century with the influence of Christianity. Some people have the abilities to rule the air, the powers; they can, for example, make the holy figures to walk – this way the God sculptures are marching in Tibetan Lamaism tradition. These people are divided into ones, who got the powers not by their will, but by inheriting, and these powers are inherited form the generation to the generation, the others decide to learn themselves form the knowing people. In first case we meet the technique of shamanism, and the second should be the degradation of ancient wizards and magicians, which both approach Lithuania till 19th–20th century despite the attempts of the Church and clergy to eliminate them; despite that the clergy succeeded in one-to discredit them, to relate them with devil deeds and witchcrafts already in 20th century.

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