"The condition called ekstasis, literally 'standing outside oneself,' [is] a condition regarded by the Greeks as typical of mad persons, geniuses and lovers, and ascribed to poets by Aristotle."
Anna Carson in Decreation: How Women like Sappho, Marguerite Porete, and Simone Weil Tell God
Content warnings: please note that this work contains mentions of suicide, abuse, trauma, and homophobia.
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ekstasis
ParanormalSophie Boyd has spent her whole life longing for an escape from her dreary childhood home and distant widower father. So when she receives a generous scholarship from the prestigious Bragdon Academy, she jumps at the opportunity to trade her working...
