The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World (Paperback, 1)

Part 1 Setting the Stage  1 Contextualizing the Study of Ecstatic Experience in Ancient Old World Societies  2 Not Only Ecstasy: Pouring New Concepts into Old Vessels  3 From Shamans to Sorcerers: Empirical Models for Defining Ritual Practices and Ecstatic Experience in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Societies  Part 2 Psychoactive Substances Past and Present  4 Psychoactive Plants in the Ancient World: Observations of an Ethnobotanist  5 Ecstasy Meets Paleoethnobotany: Botanical Stimulants in Ancient Inner Asia  6 Caucasian Cocktails: The Early Use of Alcohol in "The Cradle of Wine"  7 Mind-altering Plants in Babylonian Medical Sources  8 Plant-based Potions and Ecstatic States in Hittite Rituals  9 Forbidden at Philae: Proscription of Aphrodisiac and Psychoactive Plants in Ptolemaic Egypt  10 The Ring-Kernoi and Psychotropic Substances  Part 3 Ecstatic Experience and the Numinous  11 Beer, Beasts and Bodies: Shedding Boundaries in Bounded Spaces  12 Lament, Spectacle and Emotion in a Ritual for Ishtar  13 Writing for the Dead, Welcoming the Solar-Eye Goddess and Ecstatic Expression in Egyptian Religion  14 Altered States on Prepalatial Crete  15 Bodies in Ecstasy: Shamanic Elements in Minoan Religion  16 The Mycenaeans and Ecstatic Ritual Experience  17 Emotional Arousal, Sensory Deprivation and "Miraculous Healing" in the Cult of Asclepius  18 Ecstasy and Initiation in the Eleusinian Mysteries  19 Apolline and Dionysian Ecstasy at Delphi  20 Communing with the Spirits: Funeral Processions in Ancient Rome  Part 4 Expressions of the Ecstatic Mind  21 Ecstatic Experience and Possession Disorders in Ancient Mesopotamia  22 Ghosts In and Outside the Machine: A Phenomenology of Intelligence, Psychic Possession and Prophetic Ecstasy in Ancient Mesopotamia  23 Ecstatic Speech in Ancient Mesopotamia  24 Ecstatic Experience: The Proto-Theme of a Near Eastern Glyptic Language Family  25 Understanding the Language of Trees: Ecstatic Experience and Interspecies Communication in Late Bronze Age Crete  26 Psychedelic Art and Ecstatic Visions in the Aegean  27 Sight as Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient Mediterranean