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C G Jung [During his illness after having a heart attack and suffering form the medication]

It was as if I were in an ecstasy.  I felt as though I were floating in space, as though I were safe in the womb of the universe in a tremendous void, but filled with the highest possible feeling of happiness.  ‘This is eternal bliss’, I thought ‘This cannot be described, it is far too wonderful’

Everything around me seemed enchanted…

I was, so it seemed in the Pardis Rimmonim, the garden of Pomegranates and the wedding of Tifereth with Malchuth was taking place.  Or else I was Rabbi Simon ben Jochai whose wedding in the afterlife was being celebrated.  It was the mystic marriage as it appears in the Cabbalistic tradition.  I cannot tell you how wonderful it was …. I do not know exactly what part I played in it.  At bottom I was myself, I was the marriage.  And my beatitude was that of a blissful wedding.  Gradually the garden of pomegranates faded away and changed.  There followed the Marriage of the Lamb, in a Jerusalem festively bedecked.  I cannot describe what it was like in detail.  These were ineffable states of joy.  Angels were present and light …

That too vanished and there came a new image, the last vision.  I walked up a wide valley to the end, where a gentle chain of hills began.  The valley ended in a classical amphitheatre.  It was magnificently situated in the green landscape.  And there in this theatre the hierosgamos was being celebrated.  Men and women dancers came on stage and upon a flower decked couch father Zeus and Hera consummated the mystic marriage, as it is described in the Iliad.

All these experiences were glorious.  Night after night I floated in a state of pure bliss ‘thronged round with images of all creation’

It is impossible to convey the beauty and intensity of emotion during these visions.  They were the most tremendous things I have ever experienced