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Ecstasy
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ecstasy
ecstasy (èk´ste-sê) noun
plural ecstasies
1. Intense
joy or delight.
2. A state of emotion so
intense that one is carried beyond rational thought and self-control:
an ecstasy of rage.
3. The trance, frenzy, or
rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
[Middle English extasie, from
Old French, from Late Latin extasis, terror, from Greek ekstasis,
astonishment, distraction, from existanai, to displace, derange : ex-,
out of. EXO- + histanai, to place.]
Synonyms: ecstasy, rapture,
transport, exaltation. These nouns all refer to a state of elated
bliss. In its original sense ecstasy denoted a trancelike
condition marked by loss of orientation toward rational experience and
by concentration on a single emotion; now it usually means intense
delight: "To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain
this ecstasy, is success in life" (Walter Pater). Rapture originally
meant a being caught up in an emotional state, typically involuntary
and uncontrollable. In current usage rapture, like ecstasy, simply
means great joy: "Oliver would sit . . . listening to the sweet music,
in a perfect rapture" (Charles Dickens). Transport is the state of
being carried away by strong emotion: "Surprised by joy-impatient as
the Wind/I turned to share the transport" (William Wordsworth).
Exaltation is a feeling or condition of
elevated, often
excessively passionate emotion: "There are men in the world who derive
as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as
others from success" (Winston S. Churchill).
Ecstasy is not really part of
the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles (1915-84), U.S.
filmmaker, actor, producer. Interview in David Frost, The Americans,
"Can a Martian Survive by Pretending to be a Leading American Actor?"
(1970).
Quadrant Park warehouse rave - 1990 - N-joi | Quadrant Park, 1 Derby Road,
Bootle, Liverpool, UK |
Quadrant Park 1990 Xpansions - _Move Your Body (Elevation)_ |
Don't take offense, but if you think that MDMA is Amphetamine then I would avoid table salt if I was you (Sodium Chloride).
MDMA is related to speed, but they are definitely not the same COMPOUND, though they are chemically related.
Apparently some people are mis-informed about what MDMA is and is not.
I invite any of you to read E for Ecstasy by
Nicholas Saunders
http://ecstasy.org/e4x/
it
is a very good reference and is well annotated.
Ecstasy (E, Adam, X, MDMA) is '3,4 Methylene-dioxy-N-methylamphetamine'
Quote:
"Many people believe that the name implies a mixture
of ingredients but this is wrong - just as water
is not a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen although its molecule consists
of oxygen and hydrogen atoms. Like water, MDMA is a compound, not a
mixture. So, although the name contains the word 'amphetamine' and the
law refers to MDMA as a 'psychedelic amphetamine', MDMA contains no
amphetamine. The amphetamine-like effects may be related to dopamine
release."
From http://csp.org/nicholas/survey2.html
Nicholas Saunders
"Last year I took a 70
year-old Zen monk to a party. He was curious enough to
overcome his dislike of the music until his face lit up with a
revelation. 'This is meditation!', he shouted above the noise. Later
he explained that the walking meditation he taught involved being
fully aware 'in the
moment' without any
internal dialogue separating actions from
intentions,
and that the same definition applied to the
dancers
all around him."
Books:
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"For art to exist, for
any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to
exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable:
intoxication."
--Friedrich Nietzsche,
Twilight
of the Idols,
"Expeditions
of an Untimely man"
Sadie
Plant on Ecstasy
"What really got me started
was the mystery of Ecstasy. MDMA has been around for most
of the twentieth century; it had moments of popularity in the
'60s, but it never became a culture until the late
'80s." Why this strange time-lag, given
MDMA's
intense pleasures -- euphoria,
hyper-tactile sensuality, overwhelming feelings of
trust,
intimacy, and affection?
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Beyond this, she sees Ecstasy and rave music as
training the nervous system and human sensorium in preparation for
the Internet and
virtual reality.
In Writing On Drugs, she describes how ravers in the raptures of
Ecstasy feel "overwhelmed by their own connectivity," merging not
just with music and with the crowd but with machines too: the
sound-system, the dazzling lighting effects and lasers, and all the
other high-tech elements used to "engineer atmospheres." Melting
what
Reich called character armor,
Ecstasy creates a kind of porous, permeable ego that's supple and
open to connection and
contact. It's
a
processthat Plant describes as "positive
self-destruction, a self-destruction without death-wish."
"[Heavenly angelhood is] a tensely vital peace, and... a calm yet active ecstasy"
- Harold Bloom -
_Omens of Millenium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams,
and Resurrection_
"It's for this reason that
music can be transcendent. For a few moments it
makes us larger than we really are, and the world more orderly
than it really is. We respond not just to the beauty of the sustained
deep relations that are revealed, but also to the fact of our
perceiving
them. As our brains are thrown into overdrive, we feel our very
existence expand and realize that we can be more than we normally are,
and that the world is more than it seems. That is cause enough for
ecstasy."
– Robert Jourdain - _Music,
the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination_
film _The Doors_ (1991) directed by
Oliver Stone
Kyle McLachlan as Ray
Manzarek: "what happened to you out there in the desert?"
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison: "ecstasy..."
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