In his two most recent books, Michael Eigen explores the intimate relationship between the antipode of rage and ecstasy in a highly intriguing, phenomenological fashion. These books are unorthodox in scope and structure, and even the content vacillates from phenomenological descriptions of case studies to history and hermeneutics, theosophy and faith, including personal anecdotes and confessions, with the explication of psychoanalytic theory interwoven throughout the author's transcendental investigations and meanderings. Ecstasy could arguably be considered a literary diary on the inner experience of