Ekstasis means standing outside of one's self and so cancelling out the conditioned mind. Ecstasty is the dance of the individual with the all. . In this magic unity joy nad responsibility are one. The Ancient women shaman were responsible for keeping eergy flowing between the individual, the group and the cosmos. . . . /. The Latin word for religion is "religore" which means "a bond, " a binding back to something. hyoga means teh saem thing; a yoke or yoking back the inividual soul to the All. True religion is the umbilical cor that binds our individuial selves back to the larger Univesrsl Source. . . .At birth we forget this undivided world but we never forget completelhy. . . ./At birth the memory linger of total re-intergration and this is the real mianing of the humang longing to return to the wom. It is not a pathology but an urge to expand and re-establish the cosmic connections. . . ./The subtle energy of the human body may be seen as a subtle energy form of cosmos. . .cosmic mind and hukan mind are not essentially different or separate, nor are cosmic body or human body. Everything is interconnected in a vast network of cosmic being., a universe weaving , in which each iindividual things is a kind of energy know, or interlock, in the overall vibrating pattern. B. Mor. Monica. Sjoo