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This work is not only a general inquiry into ecstatic states of consciousness and an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition but also an intensive study of five representative poets--Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, and Tagore. In a refreshingly original, wide-ranging engagement with concepts in psychology, religion, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology and history, this book demonstrates that the poetics and aesthetics of ecstasy represent an ancient, ubiquitous theory of poetry that continues to influence writers in the current century.

Ecstasy in literature. --- Poetry --- History and criticism.

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"All I Feel is Rivers is a collection of essays in a ground-breaking genre, the "dervish essay," a new kind of hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. Vivian's dervish essays take on grief and loss, the natural world and climate, spirituality and ecstasy, all while pushing the boundaries of what prose can do"--

Grief. --- Loss (Psychology) --- Nature. --- Climatology. --- Spirituality. --- Ecstasy.

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This book represents the first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes a description of the techniques employed by his master, including the role of music. There is a discussion of the characteristics of his mystical experience and the erotic imagery by which it was expressed. Based on all the extant manuscript material of Abulafia, this book opens the way to a new understanding of Jewish mysticism. It points to the importance of the ecstatic Kabbalah for the later developments in mystical Judaism.

Cabala --- Ecstasy (Judaism) --- Kabbale --- Extase --- History. --- Histoire --- Judaïsme --- Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, --- Ecstasy (Judaism). --- Religion

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Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives' is the first monograph-length comparative study on prophetic divination in ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and Greek sources. Prophecy is one of the ways humans have believed to become conversant with what is believed to be superhuman knowledge. The prophetic process of communication involves the prophet, her/his audience, and the deity from whom the message allegedly comes from. Martti Nissinen introduces a wealth of ancient sources documenting the prophetic phenomenon around the ancient Eastern Mediterranean, whether cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, Greek inscriptions, or ancient historians.

Prophecy --- Prophets --- History. --- Minor prophets --- Prophethood --- Seers --- Persons --- Forecasting --- prophecy ---  divination ---  oracle ---  Hebrew Bible ---  Delphi ---  Didyma ---  Dodona ---  Claros ---  ecstasy ---  gender

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Hysteria, one of the most diagnosed conditions in human history, is also one of the most problematic. Can it even be said to exist at all? Since the earliest medical texts people have had something to say about 'feminine complaints'. Over the centuries, theorisations of the root causes have lurched from the physiological to the psychological to the socio-political. Thanks to its dual association with femininity and with fakery, the notion of hysteria inevitably provokes questions about women, men, sex, bodies, minds, culture, happiness and unhappiness. To some, it may seem extraordinary that such a contested diagnosis could continue to merit any mention whatsoever.Hysteria Today is a collection of essays whose purpose is to reopen the case for hysteria and to see what relevance, if any, the term may have within contemporary clinical practice.

Hysteria. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Hysteric passion --- Hysterica passio --- Hysterical neurosis --- Hysterical passion --- Passio hysterica --- Vapors (Disease) --- Vapours (Disease) --- Neuroses --- Ecstasy