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The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World
Language: en
Pages: 561
Authors: Diana Stein
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-30 - Publisher: Routledge

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For millennia, people have universally engaged in ecstatic experience as an essential element in ritual practice, spiritual belief and cultural identification.
The Art of Losing Control
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Jules Evans
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-25 - Publisher: Canongate Books

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Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest p
Where the Spirits Ride the Wind
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Felicitas D. Goodman
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-08-22 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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“Dr. Goodman has pioneered in the study of bodily postures and altered states of consciousness.” —Stanley Krippner, professor of personal mythology and pa
Ecstatic Religion
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: I. M. Lewis
Categories: Ecstasy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Ecstatic Quotidian
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday worl