Ecstasy

狂喜

Overthink

社会与文化

2025-03-25

57 分钟
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Lasers, fog machines, silent prayers…and don’t forget the ecstasy! In episode 126 of Overthink, Ellie and David dive into the experience of ecstasy. They look at interpretations of ecstasy in the tradition of mysticism, where ecstasy has been figured as a loss of self. How common are experiences of ecstasy? Are they limited to religious contexts, or are there alternate avenues for entering ecstatic states? And what about MDMA and its relation to rave culture? In the bonus, they explore how we...
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  • Hello and welcome to Overthink, the podcast.

  • Where two professors find a way to talk about medieval saints and club drugs in the same episode.

  • Woo, I'm Ellie Anderson.

  • And Woo, I'm David Pena was mine.

  • I don't know how much that Woo translated sounded a little forced.

  • It sounded

  • like we don't go to the club anymore and are trying to remember what it was like to be out past midnight in the olden days.

  • Speaking of which, David,

  • you had the brilliant suggestion of starting this episode with a song

  • that many millennials will likely know.

  • And if you are not a millennial, you may or may not know it, but you will now know it.

  • This is from the HBO TV show Summer Heights High.

  • Ecstasy, Ecstasy E E E Ecstasy She's.

  • A naughty girl with a bad habit, A bad habit with drugs She's a. Party girl with a bad habit, Bad.

  • Habit with drugs I think I'm that girl.

  • Eat, eat, eat, eat.

  • Ecstasy, Ecstasy E.

  • When I first watched this in college, I have to say I low level identified with Mr. G,

  • the super flamboyant high school theater teacher who is the creator of this musical.

  • And this song just sent me