Wikipedia's article on religious ecstasy as a general comparative phenomenon, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on religious ecstasy as a general comparative phenomenon, the lower tier reflecting that it is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, reliable for a broad overview across traditions and less reliable for the specific claims of any one tradition's own account of the experience, which a dedicated source would need to settle. NotesWikipedia's article on religious ecstasy, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here only for its general definition of religious ecstasy as an altered state of consciousness with reduced external awareness and expanded interior awareness, and for its ancient Greek Dionysian illustration of dance, music and communal gathering as an induction method, a documented historical practice in the public domain. Nothing from this source is used for, and this record cites nothing about, the internal practice of any living closed or initiatory tradition.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_ecstasy
Source Typereference
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Practices, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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