Ecstasy and Theology

'Mystical' experience is often characterized as 'ecstatic'.  Now, 'ex-stasis' connotes a transcendence of a given condition, without qualifying the latter in any way.  Thus, to conceive some given condition as in-itself ontologically 'deficient', from which a moment of ecstasy is a 'deliverance', is to impose an extrinsic interpretation on that moment.  Accordingly, James' analysis of 'mystical experience' as exhibiting the same deficiency-deliverance pattern of orthodox theologies, e. g. perdition-salvation, only propagates the dogma expressed by them.