Bridging scholarship and lived ritual experience, this book proposes that ecstasy is not a spontaneous eruption of grace, but a method-an intentional, embodied, and often initiatory process.Ranging from Dionysian mystery rites and Afro-Brazilian possession ceremonies to Amazonian vegetalismo, Mediterranean tarantism, and the Anastenaria firewalking traditions, chapter examine how ritual, rhythm, movement, myth, and music function as tools of knowledge transmission. This book challenges Western legacies that reduce understanding to rational cognition, instead elevating the intelligence of ecstatic states. Based on immersive research with Indigenous, Afro-Diasporic, and women-led communities, this book is written not only from a position of observation, but also participation. Blending philosophical inquiry with critical theory, Marianna Kokkinaki repositions ecstasy not as anomaly, but as pedagogy, a radical, ancient curriculum for awakening ecological consciousness and restoring relational ways of being. Through this, the book offers embodied approaches to the urgent crises of our time: climate collapse, rising authoritarianism, and systemic inequality.
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The Methodology of the Sacred: How Ecstasy is Achieved
Marianna Kokkinaki is a Greek writer, educator, and researcher currently teaching Creative Writing at the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Athens, Greece. Her research focuses on religious cults, drawing on academic research as well as lived practice and exchange with Indigenous and Afro-Diasporic communities worldwide.
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