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The technical and scientific progress of our globalised society, with progressive disenchantment of the living world, reinforces the importance of ecstatic experiences, which must be continuously renegotiated. "Ecstasies open up", according to the writer Robert Musil, "the possibility of another life; this is a justification of their seductive quality". Ecstasy is a special, immersive event for the senses, which evokes mental states of being outside oneself and leads into an anti-rational counter-world.
For thousands of years, this phenomenon has captivated people from …