Religious ecstasy and romantic love both derive their hold on the psyche from oxytocin, the neurohormone that is known as the love hormone.
"Religious ecstasy" refers to that feeling of being reborn refered to as "born again". Likewise, true love is the psychic state when the lover feels whole.
Whether born again or made whole, the person experiences a spiritual awakening.
This spiritual awakening feels like being born again to the religious, and becoming whole to the lover.
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For men, the link is vasopressin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasopressin
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