"Ecstatic experience" refers to a state of extreme joy, exhilaration, or intense happiness. It describes a highly positive and ecstatic feeling or sensation that can come from various situations or events.
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The special kinds of experiences that we would
call ecstatic experiences and visions and the like can be mystical, but they need not be.
For the most mystical of Pentecostals, the height of spirituality is an ineffable,
ecstatic experience of intimacy with God.
Both are positioned to develop fictional power structures that engineer
mass ecstatic experience or opportunities to escape.
By anesthetizing their emotional pain and conflict, people today seem to have done away with the need
for ecstatic experiences.
This often erupted into
an ecstatic experience of joy for her, and she would return to her seat in tears and shouts, and we would sometimes pray together spontaneously.
I never have to look at my stuff, own my stuff or deal with my stuff as long as holiness / wholeness is about busy programs or
ecstatic experiences.
It's tempting to bypass the cross and rely instead on the religious pathways of pious behavior,
ecstatic experience and doctrinal allegiance.
Some early Christians, in their enthusiasm for the new life, became more interested in
ecstatic experiences than in the will of God for them.
Thereafter, he understood faith not as the pursuit of
ecstatic experiences but as a life of attentiveness to others, the life of «I and thou» in encounter.
To possess both
the ecstatic experience» and agapeic love renders a person «mature.»
The unity which
the ecstatic experiences when he has brought all his former multiplicity into oneness is not a relative Unity, bounded by the existence of other individuals.
In its earliest forms, even in the Bible, revelation takes place in
the ecstatic experience of exceptional personalities who open up an extraordinary realm of mystery beyond the everyday modes of awareness.
«However, this is one of the few books on Paul that takes
his ecstatic experiences seriously; there is a spiritual component to Paul.»
Furthermore, many religions and cults other than Christianity see miracles, signs, wonders, speaking in tongues,
ecstatic experiences, dreams, visions, healings, and other such things.
Another possible but uncertain instance of
ecstatic experience may be mentioned.
Beth: «The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome
the ecstatic experience» ~ Emily Dickinson
«The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome
the ecstatic experience.»
The allure of
the ecstatic experience can pull us through the darkness of addiction to the heights of enlightenment.
* Sascha Braunig: Bad Latch / through July 30 * Paul Anthony Smith: Walls Without Borders / through July 30 Ja» tovia M. Gary:
An Ecstatic Experience / through May 14 Holly Coulis, Dishes and Fruits / through June 8 Atlanta Contemporary * Daniel Arsham, «Hourglass» / through May 21 High Museum of Art
Her installations disrupt and reorganize our vision and being in a way that enables us to see, imagine, and be differently — facilitating an embodied, contemplative, and
ecstatic experience.
* Sascha Braunig: Bad Latch / through July 30 * Paul Anthony Smith: Walls Without Borders / through July 30 Ja» tovia M. Gary:
An Ecstatic Experience / through May 14 Holly Coulis, Dishes and Fruits / through June 8 Atlanta Contemporary
It's a worshipful and
ecstatic experience, almost like church.
In my view the principal elements of Matisse: Flatness, Saturated Color and Patterning come directly out of Gauguin and
his ecstatic experiences in Tahiti.
In contrast, emotions are at the surface of Gary's 2015 video,
The Ecstatic Experience.
Ja'Tovia Gary's
An Ecstatic Experience, 2015, is modestly tucked in the final room of «An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1940 — 2017,» which was organized by the museum's David Breslin, Jennie Goldstein, and Rujeko Hockley.
Ja'Tovia Gary,
An Ecstatic Experience, 2015, 16 mm film transferred to HD video, color, sound, 6 minutes.