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The book describes in detail the psychoactive substance MDMA (ecstasy), the people that use it and the law concerning it, all enhanced through the lens of the author's personal experience. Subsequent revised versions were renamed Ecstasy and the Dance Culture (1995) [1] and Ecstasy Reconsidered (1997). The book is available online for free. [2] [3]
The American rock band My Chemical Romance was named after the book, after the bassist, Mikey Way, was shown the book while working in a Barnes & Noble before the band was formed. The phrase "Chemical Romance" caught his eye and he was shocked nobody had used it as a band name before, prompting him to use it for his own band's name. [ 6 ]
In the 2008 Mad Men season 2 episode "Flight 1", Peggy Olson's mother tells her daughters: "I have to renew The Agony and the Ecstasy; it's taking forever". In the autobiographical adventure book Minus 148°, author Art Davidson mentions that he is reading The Agony and the Ecstasy while waiting out a blizzard on the first winter ascent of Denali.
Ecstasy was the first book of Couperus that was published by L.J. Veen, later his regular publisher. Couperus received a wage of 550 guilders for the first edition. [1] Ecstasy was first published in the Dutch literary magazine The Gids. [2]
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy is a historical study of the different forms of shamanism around the world written by the Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade. It was first published in France by Librarie Payot under the French title of Le Chamanisme et les techniques archaïques de l'extase in 1951.
Tradition Book: Cult of Ecstasy is a supplement which describes a class of mages who derive their Magick primarily from experiences related to sensuality and sensation. [1] These include pain, drugs and sex. As Guide du Rôliste Galactique notes, "some ideas and illustrations in the book are clearly reserved for adults." [2]
Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #45 Affair of Risk: 1982 Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #55 A Negotiated Surrender: 1982 Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #68 Power Play: 1982 Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #79 Spellbound: 1982 Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #91 Conflict of Interest: 1983 Candlelight Ecstasy Romance #130 Double Dealing: 1984 Trading Secrets: 1985
Ecstasy (from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis) 'outside of oneself') is a subjective experience of total involvement of the subject with an object of their awareness. In classical Greek literature , it refers to removal of the mind or body "from its normal place of function."