Oprah Magazine bestows the virtues of MDMA

The following are some snippets from ‘Can a Single Pill Change Your Life?’ an article published in this month’s Oprah magazine.

“The cleanliness, clarity, and marvelous feeling of solid inner strength continued throughout the rest of the day and evening.”

“With MDMA, you not only see your fear but trust yourself to go past it…It shows you how to be kinder to yourself, and how much you’re capable of. It allows you access to a place in your mind that’s compassionate and full of love. You might have abandoned that place, but it never abandoned you.”

“A useful analogy might compare MDMA to antibiotics. A short course of antibiotics simply controls bacteria long enough to let the immune system take over and do its own healing. You could say that MDMA appears to be a catalyst for another kind of internal healing process.”

“I have lawyers, appellate court judges, doctors and surgeons, teachers, Stanford graduates, Harvard graduates,” says a West Coast therapist whom I’ll call Beth. “I’ve had rabbis and priests. I had a 75-year-old nun. It’s not just the hippies. It’s often people high up in their fields, very centered professionals who have come to a place in their lives where they’re stuck.” When a fellow MDMA therapist suspected that a patient’s spouse was about to report his work to authorities, Beth reached out to a lawyer for advice. “Here’s this mainstream criminal attorney, and he says, ‘I need to tell you something: My wife and I did that in couples therapy. It saved our marriage.’”

‘For a while my five senses cohere in a synesthesia of inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, like the surge and fallback of the ocean lapping the shore. A flash flood of dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin is pouring through me, setting my teeth chattering. I’m overwhelmed yet not anxious; my mind’s fear center has been put to a peaceful, dreamless sleep, like Dorothy in the poppy field. Imagine the instant right before orgasm or before a roller coaster tips over its peak height, then stretch that instant to the length of a pop song—or maybe two songs, or three. Imagine every pore and molecule in your body yawning open, vibrating with the effort, an exhilarating stretch that reaches almost far enough to touch pain.

A religious person might say that her circuit boards were jamming with the light of God. A transcendentalist might feel the boundaries between himself and Creation joyously dissolving. As for me, I’m aware as never before of my mind and body as an astounding machine: the sponges and honeycombs of my pumping lungs, the dendrites tickling toward my glowing cell bodies.’

To read the full article click here.

Posted 03:44 AM on Mon Mar 14 2011

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