Abstract

The article is devoted to the cultural philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of an altered state of consciousness, one of the little-studied cultural philosophical and cultural anthropological studies. Using the example of the analysis of ideological theorists of Sufism in the context of Turkic-Islamic culture, the authors substantiate the idea of an altered state of consciousness as a form of ecstatic type of culture. The main purpose of this article is to consider Sufism as one of the forms of ecstatic consciousness, to analyze the main forms of achieving an altered state of consciousness in the context of Turkic-Islamic culture. The novelty of this article consists in substantiating the idea of Sufism as a form of ecstatic consciousness in the context of Turkic-Islamic culture and analyzing the forms of achieving an altered state of consciousness. The authors of the article study the main forms of the altered state of consciousness by analyzing the main provisions and concepts of the works of the Turkic classics (Al-Farabi, Yassawi, Balasagun, etc.). Ecstatic consciousness is described as a state of mind that allows you to feel the purity, sublimity, splendor of Existence as pleasure, delight, joy. These states of consciousness are defined by thinkers as a deep spiritual experience that modifies and shocks with its indescribability, causing delight, in the process of which perfect knowledge is revealed.

Key words: altered state of consciousness, Sufism, love, music, circular dances, Turkic Islamic culture.