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Ecstasy is subjective experience of total involvement of the subject with
an object of his or her awareness. Because total involvement with an object
of our interest is not our ordinary experience since we are ordinary aware
also of other objects, the ecstasy is an example of altered state of
consciousness characterized by diminished awareness of other objects or
total lack of the awareness of surroundings and everything around the
object. 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.
For the duration of the ecstasy the ecstatic is out of touch with ordinary
life and is capable neither of communication with other people nor of
undertaking normal actions. Although the experience is usually brief in
physical time (from momentary to about half an hour), there
