What is ecstasy?

Answer 1

Greek word: ekstasis, "standing out."

Please note that it can mean

1. you were emotionally "outside yourself" as a kind of spiritual "clone" or

2. you emotionally expanded to feel yourself flowing out, as it were, with a kind of personal magnetism making you feel connected in feeling with others or "the world."

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It is also the other name for the drug MDMA. It is a drug that produces the effect of ecstasy as explained above on the users, as well as other more or less harmful side effects. It is well known amongst ravers and clubbers, as it enhances the sensations and the music and keeps the users awake.

It is usually in pill like form and is taken orally. It is a synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, but with short-term health risks and longer-term harm to serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition.