Ecstacy

GHB, or Gamma-Hydroxy Butyric Acid is an intoxicating chemical with medical, recreational, and potentially entheogenic uses. It is a normal component of mammalian metabolism. It is naturally found in every cell in the human body and is most properly considered a nutrient. It is believed to be a neurotransmitter, although it is still unknown as to whether it exhibits all of the properties required to be considered one. GHB was first synthesized about thirty years ago by Dr. H. Laborit. He was a

Articles The book Music The Brain and Ecstacy by Robert Jourdain describes music from a scientific and psychological standpoint which I enjoy. The first chapter captured my interest right away. I appreciated the learning the distinction between animals interpreting sound and humans. For example “some species extended their hearing up to about 8,000 cycles per second, which is an octave above the highest note on a piano . . . However, since a shark lacks a swimming bladder, they can only hear the

COCAINE One of the most dangerous and widely abused drugs is cocaine, although they do not produce very severe physical dependent symptoms upon withdrawal. In the early 16th century, Francisco Pizzaro encountered the Inca; he found that royalty used the coca plant. This was the 1st contact Europeans had with this drug. In Peru this was considered to be “the gift of the Gods” (Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive approach to mood Alteration Milkman, Sunderwirth) and was used in religious

You have probably heard stories about people who try drugs as an experiment. They liked the feeling after taking the drug. They decided take the drug again. And then another time, thinking they can always stop when they want to. Unfortunately, some of them never got to do so because they got addicted to the drug. There are many reasons why people take drugs, these include: to have fun, to keep calm, to gain confidence, to feed their curiosity, to celebrate, and many others. Some drugs were intended

During the Baroque period, propaganda uses art in order to convey the messages of religious issues; Counter Reformation for Roman Catholic church.1 In addition, in today’s society, it is used widely to achieve a desired result socially, politically, and economically.2 Through these examples of propaganda such as Gianlorenzo Bernini’s The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa for the Baroque period and a song about anti-immigration to America by “La Bestia,” and a poster about Obama’s campaign for the contemporary

just like any other goddess whenever in need, once a month, on a full moon, assemble in a secret place an adore the spirit of thy goddess, queen of all witcheries. My goddess will teach me all sorcery and its deepest secrets, love unto all beings, ecstacy of the spirit, and joy on earth. A goddess gives gift of joy unto heart, knowledge of spirit eternal unto earth, beyond death peace, freedom, and reuinion with the ones that have gone before. My goddess has been with me from the beginning and is that

Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, November 9, 1914, Vienna, Austria. She was born to Gertrud (Lichtwitz), from Budapest, and Emil Kiesler, a banker from Lviv. Lamarr had three kids in her lifetime; Anthony Loder, Denise Loder, and James Lamarr Markey. Lamarr had an interest for films and acting from a young age. She was privately tutored from age 4. By the time she was 10 years old she was a proficient pianist and dancer. She could also speak four languages. She enrolled in Max Reinhardt’s

concert prayer, the praise choruses, and kinesthetic movements together provided avenues of expression. Besides it, a variety of “modes of sensibility” in their ritual, including celebration, contemplation, transcendental efficacy, penitent/purgation, ecstacy, improvisation (ritualization) and ceremony, “helped to orient and animate their practices. ” As a result, the charismatic ritual created “a cultural domain for deeply felt expressions of human

of responsibility, at least for a time. Wordsworth, by contrast, equates his couch, generally a place of repose and relaxation, to a “pensive mood”, whereas his memories of the dancing daffodils serve to elevate him off of his couch into a type of ecstacy. Wordsworth suggests a work ethic to comfort, a purity that we must seek out, which sounds a little bit more like work. William Morton Payne talks about Wordsworth ideals of freedom, but they translate well into the elevated ideals of comfort that

Although drugs like cocaine, tobacco, alcohol, and methenfetime are all well known, none of these drugs have the political charge that marijuana has. During the past few years, frequent headlines of states such as Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Nevada legalizing the drug for recreational and medicinal use (“State Medical Marijuana Laws.”), despite federal law banning the drug since May 1st, of 1971 (Gabay par. 1). However, despite where one may stand regarding