The Future Of Ecstasy

The Future of EcstasyIt wasn't until 30 years ago, in the 1960s, that there began to be any widespread realization that ecstasy is a legitimate human need--as essential for mental and physical health as proper nutrition, vitamins, rest and recreation. Though the idea had been foreshadowed by Freud and stressed by Wilhelm Reich, there had never been anything particularly ecstatic about psychoanalysts, or their patients. They seemed, on the whole, emotionally catharticized and drearily mature. Ecs...