Religious ecstasy
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Illustration: The Ecstatic Virgin Anna Katharina Emmerich by (1885) by Gabriel Cornelius von Max
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Religious ecstasy is an altered state of consciousness 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. Although the experience is usually brief in physical time, there are records of such experiences lasting several days or even more, and of recurring experiences of ecstasy during one's lifetime. Subjective perception of time, space and/or self may strongly change or disappear during ecstasy.
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See also
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See also
- Altered state of consciousness
- Ecstasy (philosophy)
- Ecstasy (emotion)
- Enlightenment (spiritual)
- Entheogen
- Higher consciousness
- Mast (Sufism)
- Mysticism
- Neurotheology
- Nirvana
- Religious experience
- Sex magic
- Wajad
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Notable individuals or movements
- Anastenaria
- St. Thomas Aquinas experienced an ecstasy during a church service towards the end of his life that caused him to stop writing.
- Dionysus
- St. Teresa of Avila, Roman Catholic mystic, first entered states of ecstasy while studying religious texts when taken ill in a Carmelite cloister.
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, founder of the Gaudiya Vaishnavism religious movement of Bengal, immersed into deeper and deeper stages of ecstasy towards Krishna during the last 24 years of his life.
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