| At the same time she utilised the spiritual forces of monasticism, and turned the mystic impulse of ecstatics to account. |
| There is not much attempt among these ecstatics to hold on to the dignity of their reason or the reticence of their self-respect. |
| Although shamans and Daoist priests occasionally experience private ecstasies, they are primarily professional ecstatics whose mysticism is a component of group religious activities. |
| Practices that laypeople witness in nonmystical states are conducted in alternate states of consciousness by these professional ecstatics. |
| Intoxication steeps you in fantastic imaginings every whit as strange as those of ecstatics. |
| Why, then, were we shown rather unrepresentative scenes of predominantly female ecstatics? |
