Titlebook: Lost Ecstasy; Its Decline and Tran June McDaniel Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Spri

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Introduction: What Happened to Ecstasy? Mysticism, Ecstasy, and the Constructivist Loop,heology have avoided the topic by marginalizing states of mystical ecstasy, declaring them irrelevant, functions of a category “sunk in disrepute.” Yet according to a recent Pew research poll, almost 50% of Americans reported that they had a mystical or ecstatic experience. Part of the problem is th

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Some Examples of Religious Ecstasy,ns, and the ways that these states have been interpreted. Under Judaism, we include Biblical prophecy (ecstatic if not mystical) and the prophetic Kabbalism of Abraham Abulafia. Under Christianity, there is Catholic Mysticism (St. Augustine and St. John of the Cross), and the Orthodox ecstasy of ..

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Attacks on Ecstasy: Pathologizing in Academia,tion. In sociology, it has been associated with deprivation and genetic deficiency. In political science, it has been a tool manipulated by tribal groups against powerful colonial interests. In anthropology, it is a strategy of marginalized people to gain social status within their groups. For psych

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,The “Spiritualized” Ecstasies: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll, By doing such actions in the right manner, they turn from being sins to virtuous acts. Thus, sexuality, formerly understood as hedonism, is now tantric practice, the body’s way to God. Sexual ecstasy becomes religious ecstasy, for God dwells in the body. Drugs are sacraments, with peyote and ayahua

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Ecstasy and Empathy: Some Venerable Elders and New Directions,s to understand them. These include Rudolf Otto, William James, Carl Jung, Paul Tillich, and Mircea Eliade. We shall also look at some theories of ecstasy deprivation which have affected modern ideas of addiction, and discuss the work of such humanistic and transpersonal psychologists as Abraham Mas