SCRIPTA INSTITUTI DONNERIANI ABOENSIS XI
RELIGIOUS ECSTASY
Based on Papers read at the Symposium on Religious Ecstasy held at Åbo, Finland, on the 26th-28th of August 1981
Edited by NILS G. HOLM
Distributed by ALMQVIST & WIKSELL INTERNATIONAL, STOCKHOLM/SWEDEN
Religious Ecstasy
Religious Ecstasy
Based on Papers read at the Symposium on Religious Ecstasy held at Åbo, Finland, on the 26th-28th of August 1981
Edited by NILS G. HOLM
Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International Stockholm/Sweden ISBN 91-22-00574-9
Printed in Sweden by Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala 1982 Contents
NILS G. HOLM Ecstasy Research in the 20th Century—An Introduction 7 ANTOON GEELS Mystical Experience and the Emergence of Creativity 27 NORA AHLBERG Some Psycho-physiological Aspects of Ecstasy in Recent Research 63 KAJ BJÖRKQVIST Ecstasy from a Physiological Point of View 74 OWE WIKSTRÖM Possession as a Clinical Phenomenon. A Critique of the Medical Model 87