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	Religious ecstasy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Religious ecstasy is a state characterized by greatly reduced external awareness and expanded interior mental and spiritual awareness which is frequently accompanied by visions and emotional/intuitive (and sometimes physical) euphoria.
		Religious ecstasy can be distinguished from spirit possession and hypnosis in that ecstasy is not accompanied by a loss of interior consciousness or will on the part of the subject experiencing it.
		That ecstasy is related to somnambulism or the trances of spirit mediums.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_ecstasy (939 words)

	Ecstasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ecstasy, from the Greek ekstasis, to be outside oneself, is a category of trance or trancelike states in which an individual transcends ordinary consciousness and as a result has a heightened capacity for exceptional thought or experience.
		Religious ecstasy is a trance-like state characterized by expanded mental and spiritual awareness and is frequently accompanied by visions, hallucinations, and physical euphoria.
		Religious ecstasy can be distinguished from spirit possession and hypnosis in that ecstasy is not accompanied by a loss of consciousness or will on the part of the subject experiencing it.
	www.jahsonic.com /Ecstasy.html (1434 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ecstasy
		Ecstasy is always accompanied by noble attitudes of the body, whereas in hospitals one often marks motions of the body that are convulsive or repelling; barring, of course, any counter-command of the hypnotist.
		The case which most approaches, on the surface, the ecstasy of the saints is that of Helen Smith, of Geneva, whom Professor Flournoy studied carefully during the closing years of the nineteenth century.
		The ecstasies of the saints were, it was thought, of exactly the same nature.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05277a.htm (1500 words)

	Religious Ecstasy - Maharaji - Elan Vital - Cult
		Religious ecstasy can be studied from as many points of view as there are disciplines in the scientific study of religion.
		But there is also a physiological aspect to the experience of ecstasy; and a physiological study of ecstasy might bring to light new facts that would add to our general knowledge of the phenomenon and perhaps lead to a better understanding of it from other points of view, too.
		Ecstasy is often described as an extremely joyful experience; this pleasure must necessarily also have a physiological basis.
	www.ex-premie.org /papers/religious_ecstasy.htm (4481 words)

	interactive activity
		Religious ecstasy is a trance-like state that may be deliberately induced using a variety of techniques, including prayer, meditation, breathing exercises, dancing, fasting, thirsting, and the consumption of coffee, wine, and/or psychotropic drugs.
		The state of ecstasy is characterized by expanded mental and spiritual awareness and is frequently accompanied by visions, hallucinations, and physical euphoria.
		Ecstasy can be distinguished from spirit possession and hypnosis in that ecstasy is not accompanied by a loss of consciousness or will on the part of the subject experiencing it.
	www.msu.edu /~knightai/hccp/hysteria/inner/inner2.html (351 words)

	CSP - 'Religious Ecstasy' by Nils G. Holm
		Ecstasy is derived from a Greek word, with the original meaning of removing oneself from a given place.
		In the case of ecstasy however, interest is more concentrated on certain mental changes without any assumptions being made about the constituent qualities of the experience itself.
		However, to claim that religious experience is governed by the right hemisphere would be to jump to conclusions.
	www.csp.org /chrestomathy/religious_ecstasy.html (1463 words)

	Search Results for "ecstasy"
		ecstasy, either of two drugs used for their euphoric effects.
		The original ecstasy, a so-called designer drug, also known as MDMA, is an analog of methamphetamine...
		The dance of religious ecstasy, in which hypnotic or trancelike states are induced (a characteristic...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?query=ecstasy&db=db&filter=col65&Submit=Go (240 words)

	Ecstasy use in religion
		Most religious leaders are strongly opposed to the use of drugs, preaching that they can be misleading or damage the psyche, destroying the benefits of years of meditation or prayer.
		All four have written religious works, three teach their religion and two are abbots, but none has revealed their use of Ecstasy in public.
		My interviews confirmed a quality of Ecstasy that is seldom acknowledged: it enables the user to have deeper and more wholehearted experiences, but the type of experience depends on their underlying concerns.
	www.obsolete.com /ecstasy/god.html (710 words)

	Urantia Book, Paper 91: Section 7 -- Mysticism, Ecstasy, And Inspiration
		Religious ecstasy is permissible when resulting from sane antecedents, but such experiences are more often the outgrowth of purely emotional influences than a manifestation of deep spiritual character.
		Religious persons must not regard every vivid psychologic presentiment and every intense emotional experience as a divine revelation or a spiritual communication.
		Unrestrained mystical enthusiasm and rampant religious ecstasy are not the credentials of inspiration, supposedly divine credentials.
	www.theoquest.com /ubcenter/ubook/91-7.cfm (468 words)

	Ecstasy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ecstasy (emotion), a category of trance or trancelike states in which an individual transcends ordinary consciousness and as a result has a heightened capacity for exceptional thought or experience
		Ecstasy (philosophy), a term used in philosophy to mean "outside-of-itself".
		Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, a collection of three novellas by Irvine Welsh
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecstasy (218 words)

	On the Neuropsychology of Religious Experiences
		The fact that he did not have a religious experience emphasizes the importance of the mindset that a subject enters a drug facilitated altered state of consciousness with in determining whether or not he or she has a religious experience.
		The therapist would benefit in having a clearer understanding of the neuropsychological processes involved in the religious experience in that he or she would be able to treat pathologies associated with the religious experience appropriately (i.e.
		Religious experience, as redefined using neuropsychological models of universal substrates can be useful for constructing "pure" religious activities for those for whom it is useful.
	bhidalgo.tripod.com /litreview.htm (9620 words)

	Ecstasy
		Ecstasy is said to be a psycho-physical condition that accompanies the apprehension of what one personally experiences as the ultimate reality.
		Religious ecstasy, such as discussed by mystic-theologians including Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Meister Eckhart, may be the experience that is thought by faith to be an anticipation of the beatific vision - the ultimate and eternal experience of being in the presence of God.
		Ecstasy when taking on the form of rapture is frequently accompanied by a "carrying-away" sensation (related in its concrete form to levitation of the body).
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/e/ecstasy.html (1094 words)

	Essay: Religious Ecstasy and Self-Acceptance: Jelaluddin Rumi versus Saint Augustine - Coursework.Info
		Religious Ecstasy and Self-Acceptance: Jelaluddin Rumi versus Saint Augustine
		Religious Ecstasy and Self-Acceptance: Jelaluddin Rumi versus Saint Augustine Saint Augustine, a 4th century Christian philosopher and writer, and Jelaluddin Rumi, a 13th century Persian mystic and poet, both spent the majority of their lives in contemplation of the mysteries of God, and both men addressed similar issues and concerns.
		Rumi, though, is filled with a sort of religious joy, which make his poems hopeful, wise, and calm.
	www.coursework.info /University/Philosophy_and_Theology/Religious_Ecstasy_and_Self_Acceptance_Jelaluddin_Rumi_versus_Saint_Augustine_L219.html (283 words)

	rediff.com Special: Ashok Banker reviews Sudhir Kakar's new novel, Ecstasy
		Every time he narrates a scene or sequence where Ramakrishna's religious views or Vivekananda's thoughts are expressed, he seems undecided whether to let the lecture take centrestage or maintain the illusion of a fictional narration.
		The lessons, moral, religious, humane and otherwise, come through in the course of the telling rather than in chunks of expository speech.
		But, in Ecstasy, he can't seem to decide if he is trying to recreate the stories of two great and influential historical figures or using the guise of their stories to dole out huge dollops of religious dogma.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/apr/17spec.htm (1321 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
		In Mariette in Ecstasy, Ron Hansen conveys with breathtaking clarity the essence of a life lived within a religious order--a life punctuated by fervent, prayerful whispers; by Gregorian Chants; or by the caw of a crow somewhere beyond the church windows.
		When Mariette's "ecstasy" culminates in a series of stigmatas, the peace of the convent is irrevocably shattered, and the mysteries inherent in divine possession are starkly laid bare.
		One of the themes of the novel is the relationship between sexual desire and religious ecstasy.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/mariette_in_ecstasy1.asp (988 words)

	CSP - 'Ecstasy: A Way of Knowing' by Andrew M. Greeley
		The drugs may or may not produce ecstasy; they certainly produce heightened consciousness, and that in its turn may or may not lead to ecstatic rapture.
		If one reads what those who have experimented with drug-induced ecstasy write, it seems reasonably clear that "turning off" or, to use the phrase current among young people, "getting stoned," is by no means an automatic guarantee of rapture.
		It may well be possible that the human race is capable of developing a chemical agent that is harmless and will guarantee either the predisposition toward ecstasy or the experience itself.
	www.csp.org /chrestomathy/ecstasy_way.html (371 words)

	Religious Ecstacy
		The ecstasy gives you glimpses of your new Self, the face which you had before your were born.
		Because ecstasy is an indication from the subconsciousness (or rather the supraconscious, see the article on Roberto Assagioli) that further growth beyond the ego possible, because the ego is but a momentary stage that can be left behind if you want to become fully mature and happy.
		Ecstasy is one of the greatest enemies for her capacity to take in the stronghold and destroy it.
	home.wxs.nl /~brouw724/Ecstacy.html (1597 words)

	Wikinfo \| Ecstasy (drug) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		MDMA, most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy, is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect is to stimulate the brain to rapidly secrete large amounts of serotonin, causing a general sense of openness, empathy, energy, euphoria, and well-being.
		Although proper characterization of Ecstasy pills requires advanced lab facilities such as GCMS, it is also possible to use a less accurate presumptive alkaloid test known as the Marquis reagent.
		Apart from the dangers from impurities, the primary acute risks of taking Ecstasy are allergic reaction, which is extremely rare, and dehydration.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Ecstasy_(drug) (2194 words)

	E is for Ecstasy, Chapter 10
		One example of many described in Through the Gateway of the Heart(31), an American collection of positive experiences on Ecstasy, is a 32 year-old man who was at a transition point in his life and career.
		Some people claim that Ecstasy will help you to open up your heart and rid yourself of neuroses without the need for a therapist, and that in fact it is more direct because there is no transference, no-one else to look to except yourself.
		Ecstasy can also be used as an aid to drawing, writing, playing music(123, 139), singing(31) or other artistic activities.
	ecstasy.org /books/e4x/e4x.ch.10.html (5115 words)

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		Religious ecstasy, unlike the thrill that comes from scientific knowledge, does not need the understanding of complex concepts.
		Generally speaking, the newer religious visions, often products of modern science and enlightenment, tend to move away from beliefs that diverge from scientific findings, and do away with some of the negative side-effects of traditional religions.
		In the reduction of everything to facts and figures and provable propositions, some of poetic elements of the religious experience are diluted, while the solace and comfort that the magic of traditional religions provide are all but erased.
	www.rit.edu /~vvrsps/Comment/Comment4.htm (552 words)

	Cakes for the Queen of Heaven: 2,500 Years of Religious Ecstasy
		Using later religious terminology, we might say that the rhythms of nature were means of grace or sacraments.
		The human being’s fundamental religious quest is to establish contact with divine forces and beings that transcend him.
		Religiously, I believe that Jeremiah was right in his faith in the utterly transcendent God who created heaven and earth, who moves history, and who bids us do his work in the world.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1577 (4058 words)

	Tantric Temple - Philosophy - Sex in religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The religious insurrection may be positively or negatively charged with sex, but charged it is bound to be.
		He who starts a religious revolt or who immediately falls in with the rebel is necessarily of a deeply religious nature.
		And just as the religious leader, or the apostle of the leader must have an outlet for his emotions in general, he is particularly in need of an outlet for his sexual emotion.
	www.spiralrhythms.org /tantric/philosophy/04_philo.shtml (957 words)

	Stigmata - Crystalinks
		His thesis is that stigmata result from exceptional poignancy of religious faith and desire to associate oneself with the suffering Christ.
		At the age of twenty she became an ecstatic, and ecstasy was her habitual condition for the remaining thirty-five years of her life.
		She emerged from it only at the command, sometimes only mental, of the Franciscan who was her director, and to attend to the affairs of her house, which sheltered a large family.
	www.crystalinks.com /stigmata.html (1229 words)

	Umaa Tantra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In all ecstasies, whatever their cause, the ego sense is weakened and dissolves, and there is a sense of 'homecoming,' of finding Reality.
		Accounts of sexual and of religious ecstasy are unsatisfactory for the same reason: in either case an attempt is being made to describe the ineffable...
		The ecstasy on the face of St. Teresa of Avila (1515-82), as portrayed in white marble by Bernini, could be sexual rather than religious; and she described her visions and raptures in imagery and language so erotic as to embarrass the Church.
	www.umaatantra.com /religious_ecstasy081504.html (592 words)

	THE ORIGINS OF PROPHETIC FRENZY AND ECSTATIC UTTERANCE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WORLD
		In religious ecstasy, consciousness is entirely filled with the presence of God, with ideas and feelings belonging to the divine sphere.
		There is far less ecstasy in the world of the Old Testament and in the Old Testament itself than the secondary literature would have one believe, for primary texts which explicitly state or describe ecstasy are quite rare.
		Ecstasy, when it does appear in the Hebrew Bible, is to be understood as strange actoins rather than as strange utterances.
	wesley.nnu.edu /wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/11-15/11-5.htm (5709 words)

	The Ecstasy - Nightwish.com Forum
		At times, religious rapture is akin to sexual ecstasy....it's not all that strange, if you think about it.
		Religious fervour excludes physical demonstrations of love, what the religious would call "carnal lous".
		However, the driving force of such desires cannot be completely nullified, so it is transferred to the religious dimension, sexual drive becomes inbreed with religious fervour, the object of desire moves from the factual world of the flesh to the utopic world of the spirit, but it is still the same force.
	www.nightwish.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=10613 (5393 words)

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