Sentences with phrase «ecstatic experience of»

For the most mystical of Pentecostals, the height of spirituality is an ineffable, ecstatic experience of intimacy with God.

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Numbers aside, Uhrman is nostalgic for the types of gaming experiences she had as a youth and is ecstatic about bringing them back.

It's tempting to bypass the cross and rely instead on the religious pathways of pious behavior, ecstatic experience and doctrinal allegiance.

5 - 15) is the product of a supranormal psychological experience, the articulation of ecstatic reception.

Whether advocating giving oneself over to the ecstatic and wonderful, or telling one's story, or doing what feels good as «body - minds,» Keen's prescriptive therapy is broadly centered in the experience of play.

This ecstatic union of Satan and Jerusalem is in process of fulfillment even as Albion (Blake's symbolic figure representing a universal but fallen humanity) experiences the final epiphany of Jesus.

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.

If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.

(For Bingham the traditional concepts of religion are principally about subjective experience — and ecstatic experience at that.)

The special kinds of experiences that we would call ecstatic experiences and visions and the like can be mystical, but they need not be.

Experience must be interpreted, otherwise «myth and faith would perish the moment that the innocence of the ecstatic passes away.»

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.

But in the great age of prophecy, the eighth to sixth centuries, physical rneans seem to have been abandoned, and the whole ecstatic phenomenon was sublimated toward quieter mystical experiences induced by deep meditation.

It is a mysticism which may culminate in such ecstatic signs as that experienced by St. Francis; but its essence is the personal union of spirit with the love of Christ in a way of life guided by the command of complete devotion.

I have also been part of a ceremony in which I experienced ecstatic trance.

But then Sheehan begins to back away from the idea of a vision: «It was an experience that could have been as dramatic as an ecstatic vision, or as ordinary as reflecting on the meaning of Jesus.»

Another possible but uncertain instance of ecstatic experience may be mentioned.

We have now amongst us a sister whose lot it has been to be favored with sundry gifts of revelation, which she experiences in the Spirit by ecstatic vision amidst the sacred rites of the Lord's Day in the church; she converses with angels, and sometimes even with the Lord; she both sees and hears mysterious communications; some men's hearts she understands, and to them who are in need she distributes remedies.64

It could be an experience of ecstatic joy.»

The purpose of the group was to help raise awareness of the fact that many women are, indeed, experiencing ecstatic and / or...

One of the major effects of pregnancy hormones is experiencing mood swings; you could be ecstatic one moment with the growing life within you, while the next moment you may want to burst into tears at the slightest thing.

If you were in a safe and comfortable setting, with a trained guide, this experience could be one of ecstatic liberation.

We feel so blessed to live where we do (especially after several years in a crowded, noisy, far - from - beautiful area just north of downtown Toronto) and are ecstatic that we get to experience a real fall here in B.C. finally!

This would be my first time experiencing Coachella and I was more than ecstatic to go with such a great group of girls.

I love the way Blame captures the kaleidoscopic emotional experience of being a teenage girl, one moment ecstatic and exuberant, the next dreamy and dark, the next angry and despairing.

Here is what I knew about Dragon Ball FighterZ before I played it at Bandai Namco's Paris expo last month: 1) developer Arc System Works is the seasoned creator of painterly, 2D beatdowns responsible for BlazBlue and Guilty Gear, 2) Dragon Ball is a venerable manga in which absurd hunks with radioactive mullets make planets explode by, as far as I can tell, experiencing really bad heartburn, 3)???? 4) profit, going by ecstatic reactions to the closed beta.

A novice middle school teacher, fresh from experiencing an ecstatic moment of student learning, burst into the teachers» room to share her news.

Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, earned the young writer comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald, and Naipaul, and garnered ecstatic critical praise and awards around the world for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience.

A tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's disease, ecstatic epilepsy, Cotard's syndrome, out - of - body experiences, and other disorders — revealing the awesome power of the human sense of self from a master of science journalism

If your dog's first experiences with booms of thunder are immediately followed by an ecstatic owner who starts dishing out pieces of hot dogs, you can pre-condition them to like thunder, or at least not be as freaked out by it.

When Naughty Dog announced Uncharted: The Lost Legacy as the single player expansion to Uncharted 4 at Playstation Experience in 2016, fans of the series were ecstatic.

Winner of multiple awards and nominations at the 2015 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), including «Best Music Game» from IGN and Game Informer, Rock Band 4 delivers the ecstatic rush of a live full - band game experience like never before.

Now I want to be clear, I am ecstatic more player is getting to experience these events I had the luck of experiencing in the original Destiny.

Experience the movies of Los Angeles — based artist Ryan Trecartin, a video - art visionary known for exploring themes of identity and language through a chaotic and ecstatic style.

The allure of the ecstatic experience can pull us through the darkness of addiction to the heights of enlightenment.

Together, they are like a sheet of drawings by an old master, a study in facial expressions that suggests a range of experiences, from the ecstatic to the infernal.

* 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

In my view the principal elements of Matisse: Flatness, Saturated Color and Patterning come directly out of Gauguin and his ecstatic experiences in Tahiti.

It Maria's that making art is about looking at the vastness of our life slowly and deeply, while simultaneously connecting to our ecstatic and tragic shared experiences.

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.

Janine Antoni and Slavoj Žižek's discussion, moderated by Sister Helen Prejean, contrasted an ecstatic bodily experience of the divine, with the dubious ethical dimensions of religious experiences.

Mr. Pate was so ecstatic about the work we did for him that he gave us full permission to review the details of his experience in applying for life insurance through our agency.

Video players for the Android Wear platform are few and far between, so if you feel this is part of what your smartwatch experience was lacking then you're likely ecstatic it's here.

A Use of Caressing Exercises to Enrich Sensual Connection and Evoke Ecstatic Experience in Couples In G. Ogden, Guest Editor, Extraordinary Sex Special Issue, Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy.