But a happy chance leads him to young Elliot (Henry Thomas) who, unknown to his mother or any grownups, takes him in, feeds him, witnesses ET's healing gift, and finally in an ecstatic mind-melding process, experiences a merging of consciousness with ET and a strange and divine state of grace.
The etymologies of the Indian and some of the Arabic and Persian terminology connote poverty, ecstatic states of mind, dress conventions, and so on, while other terms imply single, celibate living.
In Five Primitive Masters (1949), the German critic Wilhelm Uhde in fact acclaimed primitive art's "air of unsophisticated artlessness and clumsiness," which supposedly expressed "an elevated or ecstatic state of mind".
"Dust Devil," for example, opens: "Mystical hysterical amalgam of earth and wind/and mind," an ecstatic ruckus worthy of Gerard Manley Hopkins, who also tasted the tears in things — and the holy too.
The thought of that night filled my mind like an ecstatic heartbeat.
It's like the point just after you come up from a potent batch of molly and realise that your mind is in ecstatic synergy with everything around you; the peak of the wave that crescendos into untold ethereal delight as you ride explosive orgasm after orgasm.
It's like the point just after you come up from a potent batch of molly and realize that your mind is in ecstatic synergy with everything around you; the peak of the wave that crescendos into untold ethereal delight as you ride explosive orgasm after orgasm.
It's a film of hypnotic, ecstatic textures but textures present to the mind, and the eye, not to the hand.
Her powerful one-movement works, which combine the violent forward drive of rock music with an aura of minimalist serenity, use the four instruments as a big guitar, whipping psychedelic states of mind into frenzied and ecstatic climaxes.
Pitchfork Media's Ryan Dombal described West's delivery as urgent, summarizing the production; "More than ever, though, "Power" has Kanye internalizing his multiple minds and coming to an ecstatic peace with them.
This in mind, another girlfriend of mine was ecstatic because she had four dates lined up for next week, all of whom she had met online.
