ECSTASIES

Psychedelic retreats, shamanism, dancing to exhaustion, ketamine in Silicon Valley, new spiritual practices and ancient solstice rituals — contemporary culture is returning to ecstasy. What Western society suppressed for centuries is resurfacing today in yoga classes, mindfulness seminars and even corporate workshops.

This book approaches ecstasy as a mode of knowledge — telling the story of humanity through practices of self-transcendence. It shows how these methods remained overshadowed by rationalism for thousands of years and how they are now returning with renewed force.

The authors of Ecstasies explore why this revival is simultaneously a symptom of crisis and a hope for renewal, proposing a reflection on what a contemporary ethics of ecstasy could look like in a world desperate to feel alive again.