Sentences with phrase «mystic ecstasy»

A similar mystic ecstasy is captured in religious iconography depicting illuminations, and in installations by Marina Abramovic and Nicola Martini, which explore the relationship between matter and perception.

Conscience, which dictates what we should do and induces remorse for failure, is the «semi-conscious intellectual effort to experience Divinity, without recourse to anthropomorphic terms, rational propositions or mystic ecstasy» (REN 71).

Not exact matches

It is no accident that this procedure works best with mystics, or more specifically with those who practiced what William James called the «mysticism of infinity» in which self, world, and divinity merge in ecstasy (which James called, with a sort of Harvard understatement, an «oceanic feeling»).

This experience of the unity of the self is understood by the mystic as the experience of the unity, and this leads him to turn away from his existence as a man to a duality of «higher» hours of ecstasy and lower» hours in the world which are regarded as preparation for the higher.

That is why, as Traversi says, Dostoevsky's hero - mystics are driven by their thirst for this God «into straining the boundaries of human experience, so that their ecstasy inevitably coincides with the dissolution of the personality into epileptic idiocy.»

And his inner ring of aides appears to have formed a small cult around him, insisting he enjoys an ineffable mystic bond with «the people,» and that all who glimpse his pure beatific aura must fall into instantaneous ecstasies of awe and reverence, and speak of him afterward in only the most cringing and slavish terms.

Discussing Fyodor Dostoevsky's epilepsy, Anil Ananthaswamy asks if mystics through the ages had comparable «ecstasies» (25 January, p 44).