Author | : Nicholas Saunders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Ecstasy (Drug) |
ISBN | : 9780950162881 |
Author | : Nicholas Saunders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Ecstasy (Drug) |
ISBN | : 9780950162881 |
Author | : Daniel Mendelsohn |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1681374099 |
“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.
Author | : Irvine Welsh |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393315813 |
A bestsellig romance author suffers a paralyzing stroke and her philandering husband wonders how this will affect his gambling and whoring budget; two young lovers must come to terms with their chemically induced deformity; Lloyd from Leith transfigures his passion for an unhappily married woman. These three tales confirm Irvine Welsh's position as a master of the "chemical" romance genre.
Author | : Kate McCaffrey |
Publisher | : Fremantle Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2008-04-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1921696362 |
Mia and Sophie have been best friends forever — but that's all about to change. Experimenting with alcohol, flirting with boys, and dabbling in drugs, their lives quickly spiral out of control. There is little currently available for young readers — and their parents — that accurately reflects both the appeal and the consequences of drug use from a teenage perspective, making this an important and valuable novel.
Author | : Simon Reynolds |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2013-06-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1136783164 |
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.
Author | : Nicholas Saunders |
Publisher | : Ed Rosenthal |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Central nervous system |
ISBN | : 9780932551207 |
An international bestseller with over 100,000 copies in print - one of the first sources of information about the drug and its correspondent dance culture.
Author | : Charles Wininger |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1644111179 |
A personal narrative and guide to the safe, responsible use of MDMA for personal healing and social transformation • Details the author’s 50 years of responsible experimentation with mind-altering substances and how Ecstasy has helped him become a better therapist • Explains how he and his wife found Ecstasy to be the key to renewing and enriching their lives and marriage as they entered their senior years • Describes what the experience actually feels like and provides protocols for the safe, responsible, recreational, and celebrational use of MDMA for individuals and groups In a world that keeps us separate from each other, MDMA is the chemical of connection. Aptly known in popular culture as “Ecstasy,” MDMA helps us rediscover our own true loving nature, often obscured by the traumas of life. On its way to becoming a prescription medication due to groundbreaking research on its use to treat PTSD, Ecstasy can offer benefits for all adult life stages, from 20-somethings to seniors. In this memoir and guide to safe use, Charles Wininger, a licensed psychoanalyst and mental health counselor, details the countless ways that Ecstasy has helped him become a better therapist and husband. He recounts his coming of age in the 1960s counterculture, his 50 years of responsible experimentation with mind-altering substances, and his immersion in the new psychedelic renaissance. He explains how he and his wife found Ecstasy to be the key to renewing and enriching their lives as they entered their senior years. It also strengthened the bonds of their marriage. Countering the fearful propaganda that surrounds this drug, Wininger describes what the experience actually feels like and explores the value of Ecstasy and similar substances for helping psychologically healthy individuals live a more “optimal” life. He provides protocols for the responsible, recreational, and celebrational use of MDMA, including how to perfect the experience, maximize the benefits and minimize the risks, and how it may not be for everyone. He reveals how MDMA has revitalized his marriage, both erotically and emotionally, and describes how pleasure, fun, and joy can be profound bonding and transformative experiences. Revealing MDMA’s versatility when it comes to bringing lasting renewal, pleasure, and inspiration to one’s life, Wininger shows that recognizing the transformative power of happiness-inducing experiences can be the first step on the path to healing.
Author | : June McDaniel |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2018-06-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 331992771X |
This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance of religious and mystical ecstasy has declined in the modern West. June McDaniel examines how the search for ecstatic experience has migrated into such areas as war, terrorism, transgression, sexuality, drug use, and anti-institutional forms of spirituality. She argues that the loss of religious and mystical ecstasy, as both a religious goal and as a topic of academic study, has had wide-ranging negative effects. She also proposes that the field of religious studies must go beyond criminalizing, trivializing and pathologizing ecstatic and mystical experiences. Both religious studies and theology need to take these states seriously as important aspects of lived human experience.
Author | : Ron Hansen |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2009-10-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061978280 |
The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy.