I first learned about this term when I stumbled across a link to the German movie director, Werner Herzog. His name has become synonymous with the concept of ecstatic truth.
By my personal definition, ecstatic truth is the deeper, timeless cosmological truth that lies beneath the pragmatic realities of everyday life. Another person may have a slightly or even more than slightly different definition. I don't care. This one works for me.
In fact, there are deeper truths at play even in the most mundane of human circumstances. Most of the time, for most of us, truths at that level are not part of our awareness. One has to seek ecstatic truth, and the process of seeking, combined with one's knowledge and life experience, shapes what one sees.
A physicist named Werner Heisenberg got a Nobel Prize for illuminating a deeper truth he called 'The Uncertainty Principle', which in essence is that the very process of observing impacts and alters what one observes. For decades, cosmological theory has evovled with Heisenberg's uncertainty as part of it's foundation.
Ecstatic truth lies on the other side of uncertainty, and it presents a unique face every time it is observed.
Here is a video link that features Werner Herzog explaining ecstatic truth...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI3f5-Vdi7g
Utterly profound, and by passes most of philosophy as I understand it, it is the truth of myth as opposed to thectruth of history! pure inspiration, the truth of the spirit, as opposed to mere material truth, see my book The Handbook of the Soul, ken evans
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