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The Neoplationist Plotinus used the term ecstasis to describe mystic transcendence, the "flight of the alone to the Alone"; later Bernini famously incarnated a more devotional sense of transport in his trembling St. 25) As figured by the religious shaman, whose ceremonial "bisexual transvestism" (26) opens a way to pure being, Clement argues such rhythmic ecstasis must resist appropriation. In a lovely sentence, redolent of Bonaventurean sensibility, she writes: "Praise is the creature's mode of ecstasis, its own self-transcendence, its disinclination to remain self-contained. |
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