He began to experience mystical ecstasies during Mass and when reading the psalms.

But he was lost in no mystical ecstasy.

She experienced a mystical ecstasy that became profoundly influential on Spanish culture and art.

This music is an attempt at reaching a trance state which inspires mystical ecstasy.

Liszt's playing was reported to raise the mood of the audience to a level of mystical ecstasy.

He taught that states of mystical ecstasy could be achieved effortlessly - and without recourse to psychedelic drugs.

In later life, the adult may seek to 'return to this narcissistic mode of being, notably through music, passionate love, or mystical ecstasy'.

And there were many witnesses to testify that his playing did indeed raise the mood of an audience to a level of mystical ecstasy."

Many witnesses later testified that Liszt's playing raised the mood of audiences to a level of mystical ecstasy.

In the mystical ecstasy of this deeper entrance into the Ultimate, she lost sorrow as she lost self.

Indeed, it is possible to argue that St Teresa's mystical ecstasies are themselves something entirely new in the spiritual life of Europe.

Therefore, while she was in a mystical ecstasy, they pricked her with sharp pins and put lit candles to her hands and feet.

He can't decide if consciousness is miraculous or meaningless; he hovers between mystical ecstasy and the purest nihilism.

She was deeply committed; still, it would be well to be sure that he was not too far gone in mystical ecstasy to attend to the necessities.

When Sender announces that he has found a suitable bridegroom for Leah'le, Hannan drops dead in a state of mystical ecstasy.

Margaret was also instrumental in the composition of a liturgical commemoration of the gift of canor, the mystical ecstasy that Rolle celebrated in his writings.

This musical dimension of Hasidic deveikut, similar to the new forms of worship in Hasidic storytelling, captures the characteristics of its mystical ecstasy.

Sufis believed that their mystical ecstasy reproduced the spiritual experiences of the Prophet when he had received the Koran; they too were conforming to the Muhammadan archetype.

His appearance is said to have appeared to Catherine de Saint-Augustine at the Québec Hôtel-Dieu while she was in a state of "mystical ecstasy," and acted as her spiritual advisor.

The setting places the viewer as a spectator in front of the statue with the Cornaro family leaning out of their box seats and craning forward to see the mystical ecstasy of the saint.

Instead, it was the seeking of instruction; for to know God's will was Martin's heart's desire, and to attain such a state of perfection - a union with God in mystical ecstasy - required the patience of a corpse.

They cannot maintain unbroken continuity of consciousness, they grow bewildered at the changed condition; they fail to maintain the mystical ecstasy; they fail to take advantage of the opportunity unless upheld and directed by a guide.

A boy wobbles in a kind of mystical ecstasy, his eyes rolled back, in front of a peeling wall that looks like an action painting 20 years early; the boy is in fact searching the sky for the ball he tossed up.

To see both the fires of hell and a union with God in mystical ecstasy, one needed only to follow the Spiritual Exercises and call upon 'the eye of the imagination,' for the missionary had no doubt that this was the clearest eye of all.

Mr Robertson told the second and final day of a hearing by the board's video appeal committee that St Theresa was portrayed in mystical ecstasy - using pain to place herself at the mercy of her subconscious and thereby contemplate Jesus on the Cross.