Ecstasy

:This article is about the psychological state. For other uses of this term, see ecstasy (drug) and religious ecstasy.

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Ecstasy, from the Greek ekstasis, to be outside oneself, is a category of trance or trancelike states in which an individual transcends ordinary consciousness and as a result has a heightened capacity for exceptional thought or experience. These may include profound emotional feeling, intense concentration on a specific task, extraordinary physical abilities, and especially awareness of non-ordinary mental spaces, which may be perceived as spiritual (the latter type of ecstasy often takes the form of religious ecstasy). This heightened capacity is typically accompanied by diminished awareness of some other matters. For instance, if one is concentrating on a physical task, then one might cease to be aware of any intellectual thoughts. On the other hand, making a spirit journey in an ecstatic trance involves the cessation of voluntary bodily movement.

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Ecstasy (drug): MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy, is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect is to stimulate the secretion of large amounts of serotonin as well as dopamine and noradrenaline in the brain, causing a gener...

Religious ecstasy: :Another article on a related topic is ecstasy....

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Ecstasy related Images and Photos (experimental)

The Ecstasy of St. Theresa	The Ecstasy Plate 1 from La Grenouillere c.1912	The Ecstasy of St. Peter of Alcantara	Saint Francis in Ecstasy
Passionate Attitudes: Augustine in Ecstasy from "Iconographie De La Salpetriere"	The Agony and the Ecstasy 1965	The Cornaro Chapel Detail of the Altar with "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa"