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new work". One of the most controversial and strange examples is that of spiritual birthing  – a practice during which women, and at times even men, claim to be having actual contractions of the womb while they moan and retch as though experiencing childbirth. It is said to be a prophetic action bringing spiritual blessings from God into the world. Many believe spiritual birthing to be highly demonic and more occult-like than Christian. Religious ecstasy in these Christian movements has also been witnessed in the form of squealing, shrieking, an inability to stand or sit, uttering apocalyptic prophecies,
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that are far too much for them, forcing them to lose contact with the world, shed normal human habits and customs, and civilized society and live in a state of spiritual splendor but physical squalor. They are overcome by an agonizing love for God and are drowned in their ecstasy. Only the divine love embodied in a Perfect Master can reach them."
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Epithets are very often applied to mystical experiences including ecstasies without, apparently, any clear idea about the distinctions that are being made. Thus we find experiences given such names as nature, religious, aesthetic, neo-platonic, etc.. experiences, where in some cases the name seems to
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and several other North American so-called revivals and outpourings from the mid-1990s. From that time, religious ecstasy in these movements has been characterized by increasingly unusual behaviors that are understood by adherents to be the anointing of the Holy Spirit and evidence of God's "doing a
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experience a unique type of spiritual ecstasy: "asts are desperately in love with God – or consumed by their love for God. Masts do not suffer from what may be called a disease. They are in a state of mental disorder because their minds are overcome by such intense spiritual energies
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religious ecstasy (called "supernatural ecstasy") includes two elements: one, interior and invisible, in which the mind rivets its attention on a religious subject, and another, corporeal and visible, in which the activity of the senses is suspended, reducing the effect of external sensations upon
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also called absorption. The first four states are Rupa or, materially-oriented. The next four are Arupa or non-material. These eight states are preliminary trances which lead up to final saturation. In the
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Xygalatas, Dimitris, "Firewalking and the Brain: The Physiology of High-Arousal Rituals", in: Joseph Bulbulia, Richard Sosis, Erica Harris, Russell Genet, Cheryl Genet, and Karen Wyman (eds.)
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Although the experience is usually brief in time, there are records of such experiences lasting several days or even more, and of recurring experiences of ecstasy during a person's lifetime.
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characterized by greatly reduced external awareness and reportedly expanded interior mental and spiritual awareness, frequently accompanied by visions and emotional (and sometimes physical)
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Christianity, numerous examples of religious ecstasy have transpired, similar to historic revivals. These occurrences have changed significantly since the time of the
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The adjective "religious" means that the experience occurs in connection with religious activities or is interpreted in the context of a religion. Journalist
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traditions may define themselves as "ecstatic traditions", and focus on reaching ecstatic states in their rituals. The
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Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival in New England and the Way it Ought to be Acknowledged and Promoted
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Historically, large groups of individuals have experienced religious ecstasies during periods of
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are practiced to reach the first absorption, and not all individuals can accomplish it at all.
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writes in her study "Ecstasy in Religious and Secular Experiences", first published in 1961:
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The Burning Saints. Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria
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in particular places emphasis on ecstasy as being one of the fruits of its practice.
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the subject and rendering him or her resistant to awakening. The witnesses of a
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St. Rose of Lima who was canonised in 1671, 54 years after her death.
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Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, the Biography of the Avatar of the Age,
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Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England
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Ecstasy. A Study of Some Secular and Religious Experiences
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and music to remove inhibitions and social constraints.
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often describe experiencing these elements of ecstasy.
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derive from a trigger, sometimes from the over belief.
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Ecstasy (emotion)
Ecstasy (philosophy)

Saint Teresa
Giuseppe Bazzani
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Spirituality
Outline
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Timeline
Elite religion
Jewish
Merkabah
Kabbalah
Hasidism
Christian
Catholic
Mysticism
Sufism
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