Ecstasy, Ecstasis (Greek) (from ekstasis displacement, standing out from the proper place, hence rising above)

A transference of consciousness from the physical plane to another inner and superior plane, accompanied by awareness and memory of the experience. It is necessary to distinguish between an astral-psychic experience and a truly psychospiritual one.

The former is delusive and fraught with harm; the latter is the state of illumination spoken of by Plotinus, resulting from the true asceticism of the disciple, and in its highest form is the same as the high stage of meditation of the Hindu yogi.

Used in the Gospels to mean astonishment, trance, or ecstatic visions.

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Ecstasy:

An altered state of consciousness in which the person experiences great rapture and loss of self-control.

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Ecstasy

• To dream of feeling ecstasy, denotes you will enjoy a visit from a long-absent friend. If you experience ecstasy in disturbing dreams you will be subjected to sorrow and disappointment.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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Ecstasy Breathing: Method created by Valnn Dayne. It involves music and Breath Regenesis. Its purpose is reconnection with a Power of Life that is greater than oneself.

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Ecstasis (Ancient Greek). A psycho-spiritual state; a physical trance which induces clairvoyance and a beatific state bringing on visions.

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ecstasy (ecstatic): State of being overtaken by emotion such as joy or wonder. Literally, "standing outside oneself."

See: enstasy, samadhi.

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Ananda:

bliss, ecstasy

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premananda

The ecstasy of pure love of God.

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Samadhi: Ecstasy, total absorption, or a thoughtless state of the mind. It is the highest state of being.

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vipralambha-bhava, Viraha-bhava

The ecstasy of separation from the Supreme Lord.

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bhava

Ecstasy in love of God. Various kinds of bhava join together as the components of prema.

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maha-bhava

The ultimate limit of devotional ecstasy, found only in Sri Radha and some of Her intimate servants. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who was Sri Krishna in the mood of Sri Radha, also displayed such ecstasy.

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SkyDancing Tantra: Westernized form of Tantra developed by Margo Anand, author of The Art of Sexual Ecstasy and the bestseller The Art of Sexual Magic. SkyDancing Tantra is an approach to sexual ecstasy that borrows from bioenergetics, NLP, shamanism, and transpersonal psychology. It awakens vitality and hidden powers of the brain. The Fall 1997 New York Open Center catalog described the expression SkyDancing as an ancient metaphor for the ability to reach ecstatic states when love is experienced as a joyful meditation.

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Mystical Experience:

ASCs involving experiences of ecstasy, unity, timelessness, loss of self, divine revelation, etc.

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ANAMNESIS - 1. Ecstasy - causing reminders. e.g. music of the spheres (Greek)

2. recovery of buried memory, both individual and collective (Jung) (NAD)

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sattvika-bhavas

In the development of pure love of God, ecstasies that arise automatically, without conscious intention. They are eight in number.

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Ananda - spiritual bliss, ecstasy, joy, happiness; that which Sri Bhagavan relishes through His hladini-sakti (see hladini).

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Samadhi:

Samadhi ("putting together"): the ecstatic or unitive state in which the meditator becomes one with the object of meditation, the eighth and final limb (anga) of Patanjali's eightfold path; there are many types of samadhi, the most significant distinction being between samprajnata (conscious) and asamprajnata (supraconscious) ecstasy; only the latter leads to the dissolution of the karmic factors deep within the mind; beyond both types of ecstasy is enlightenment, which is also sometimes called sahaja-samadhi or the condition of "natural" or "spontaneous" ecstasy, where there is perfect continuity of superconscious throughout waking, dreaming, and sleeping

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Samyama:

Samyama ("constraint"): the combined practice of concentration (dharana), meditation (dhyana), and ecstasy (samadhi) in regard to the same object

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Nirodha:

Nirodha ("restriction"): in Patanjali's eight-limbed yoga, the very basis of the process of concentration, meditation, and ecstasy; in the first instance, the restriction of the "whirls of the mind" (citta-vritti)

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