Religious ecstasy
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![Saint Caterina of Alexandria during her ecstacy by Bernardo Cavallino.](/Images/godic/202502/17/S.-Caterina-Cavallino1842.jpg")
![The religious ecstacy of Saint Teresa of Avila of the Carmelite Order, here portrayed being pierced a thousand times in the heart by a cherub.](/Images/godic/202502/17/Baeza_-_Convento_de_la_Encarnacion_081842.jpg")
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Religious ecstasy is a type of altered state of consciousness characterized by greatly reduced external awareness and expanded interior mental and spiritual awareness, frequently accompanied by visions and emotional (and sometimes physical) euphoria.