Walau sekilas terdengar sebagai olahraga ekstrem, tapi beberapa atlet menceritakan pengalaman kenikmatan (ekstasi) dalam mencoba jenis olahraga terbang ini.
Beberapa buku dan kajian telah dilakukan untuk menyelidiki hubungan antara spiritualitas dan olahraga ekstrem.
Kaum sufi pada dahulu kala juga menggunakan metode yang sama. Saat mereka mencoba berbagai cara untuk menciptakan kondisi ekstasi, walaupun begitu tetap tidak keluar dari kaidah-kaidah umum; seperti adanya sistem keselamatan yang baik, mengetahui cuaca sebelum terbang dan lain sebagainya.
Here is the last great illusion of the ego: that it can take charge, control you and manipulate you, without you ever knowing. You can be smugly celebrating your latest sacred insight, transcendent experience or world-shattering spiritual breakthrough, while behind the scenes the ego, resolutely dug in, firmly seizes the reins of your life. Like seeing wrong-doing where it is acceptable to the majority consensus or surprising a perpetrator in the act of committing a violent crime, simply to witness, to see it for what it is, is a daring feat, an act of heroism.
The heroic aspects of the spiritual life have always appealed to me—shedding illusion and delusion, overcoming oneself to find truth, removing the obstacles to Love and enlightenment. So when Jung announced that there was one last great journey left for man and that that was the journey within, I was thrilled. (sumber)
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