Education and Ecstasy
Title | Education and Ecstasy PDF eBook |
Author | George Leonard |
Publisher | North Atlantic Books |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781556430053 |
"Education and Ecstasy" was originally written as a call for reform in America's school systems. Published in the 60s, and then revised in the 80s, this book reveals the deep-rooted structural problems in American schools--problems which still plague the system. (Education/Teaching)
Education and Ecstasy
Title | Education and Ecstasy PDF eBook |
Author | George Leonard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780440522478 |
Education and Ecstasy
Title | Education and Ecstasy PDF eBook |
Author | George B. Leonard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2000 |
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EDUCATION AND ECSTASY. BY GEORGE BURR LEONARD.
Title | EDUCATION AND ECSTASY. BY GEORGE BURR LEONARD. PDF eBook |
Author | George B. Leonard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 1969 |
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Listening to Ecstasy
Title | Listening to Ecstasy PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Wininger |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
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.
Ecstasy and Terror
Title | Ecstasy and Terror PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Mendelsohn |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
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.
Buzzed
Title | Buzzed PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Kuhn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Drugs of abuse |
ISBN | 9780393045888 |
Based on the most current psychological and pharmacological research, provides a reliable, unbiased look at the use and abuse of legal and illegal drugs -- from alcohol, caffeine, and anti-anxiety pills to heroin, ecstasy, and special-K.