Estudios Nietzsche

Rapture and drunkenness: the feeling of fullness.

Estudios Nietzsche July 7, 2023 Adilson Felício Feiler

Abstract: Teresa of Avila presents the mystical rapture, the supreme expression of ecstasy, as the absence of the exterior senses, and, with it, of all disturbance. This spiritual experience results from a clairvoyant truth, acquired beyond the understanding as a unique and singular moment. Therefore, it is the experience that takes place in an instant of fullness, in an instant that is, at the...