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	The Nature of the MDMA Experience and Its Role in Healing, Psychotherapy, and Spiritual Practice
		It is the primary thesis of this paper that the empathogenic substances induce an experience that has the potential for dissolving the defensive intrapsychic separation between spirit, mind, and body, and that therefore physical healing, psychological problem solving, and spiritual awareness can and usually do co-occur in the same experience.
		Perceptual changes with the empathogenics are usually minimal, but a deep feeling of appreciation for and connectedness with all life forms is often reported in such sessions.
		Empathogenics are a subcategory of psychedelic ("mind- manifesting") drugs, such as LSD and psilocybin.
	www.maps.org /research/mdma/revision.html (9818 words)

	Utopian Pharmacology
		The term "empathogen" to describe MDMA and other closely related phenethylamine "empathy drugs" [MDA, MDEA, MBDB] was proposed by Ralph Metzner, Dean of the California Institute of Integral Studies, at a 1983 conference at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
		The term "entactogen" was coined in 1986 by Dr David Nichols, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology at Purdue University and co-founder of the Heffter Research Institute, to refer to substances that generate a sense of "touching within" or "produce a feeling in one's innermost being".
		This is because a sustained regimen of SSRIs largely blunts MDMA's empathogenic and entactogenic effects.
	www.shawnnacol.com /pP-UtopianPharm.htm (13821 words)

	Empathogen-Entactogen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The terms empathogen and entactogen are different terms used to describe one class of hallucinogens that function as serotonin releasers; most of these are phenethylamines.
		The term "empathogen" was coined in 1983 by Ralph Metzner to denote chemical agents inducing feelings of empathy.
		The best known drug of this class is MDMA ("ecstasy"); others include MDA, MDEA, and MBDB.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Empathogen (201 words)

	Hallucinogenic drug biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The broad term "hallucinogen" is often used as a synonym for the class of psychedelics (LSD, magic mushrooms, mescaline), especially in the current scientific literature.
		The terms "empathogen" and "entactogen" are also applied to certain drugs (notably those similar to MDMA) that are also sometimes classed as hallucinogens.
		One is the rise of dance-based rave and trance culture, in which participants frequently employ drugs such as the empathogen MDMA, and to a lesser extent, other hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD, magic mushrooms and ketamine, as an aid to inducing ecstatic or trance states of consciousness.
	hallucinogen.biography.ms (2262 words)

	Guidelines for the Sacramental Use of Empathogenic Substances
		If two individuals who are lovers, and are experienced with empathogenic substances, wish to use a conjoint session to explore deeper levels of emotional and sexual and spiritual intimacy, this is certainly a state in which tantric and taoist eroticism, which is non-striving, non-craving, and non-possessive, can be experienced.
		From reviewing the work of therapists and guides who have witnessed sessions with MDMA and other of the empathogens, one is lead to the conclusion that there are two main kinds of outcomes: for one group of people there is no discernible outward change in behavior.
		It is also the impression of many therapists and observers that the empathogens, more than other psychedelics or hallucinogens, leave one with the ability to consciously recall the state of consciousness -- to do a kind of voluntary, purposive "flashback".
	maps.org /gateway/%5B55%5D181-197.html (4941 words)

	MAPS - The great entactogen - empathogen debate
		On a philosophical level, I object to the use of the term empathogen in a medical context, since the therapist should be able to develop feelings of empathy for the patient in the absence of taking the drug him/herself.
		Based largely on a belief that the ability to access repressed or unconscious material would ultimately prove to be the effect of these drugs most widely exploited in medical practice, we tried to develop a term that would reflect the drug's ability to facilitate the retrieval of "inner" material and enhance introspective states.
		Nor does calling MDMA an "empathogenic" means that I "discard...the role of set and setting." Quite the contrary: the role of set and setting is quite obvious to anyone who has worked with psychedelics or similar compounds.
	www.maps.org /news-letters/v04n2/04247eed.html (2222 words)

	Disinformation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		AMT (or Alpha-methyltryptamine), Not much is known about it other than the fact it is now illegal.
		What is known about the effects is that has milder effect than E with a little more visuals (when you close your eyes), it has a similar, though lesser empathic effect on a person, and as associated with most empathogens, the associated mood lift.
		Also as is quite common with empathogens an increased appreciation of music tends to come with the territory.
	www.disinfo.com /site/printarticle141.html (208 words)

	Phenethylamine biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		However, it is quickly metabolized by the enzyme MAO so that significant concentrations do not reach the brain.
		Substituted phenethylamines are a broad and diverse class of compounds that include alkaloids, neurotransmitters, hormone, stimulants, hallucinogens, empathogens, anorectics, bronchodilators, and antidepressants.
		The phenethylamine structure can also be found as part of more complex ring systems like in the ergoline system of LSD or the morphinan system of morphine.
	phenethylamine.biography.ms (330 words)

	Psychedelic Information Theory : Psychedelics, Dissociatives, and Deliriants : Different Drugs, Different Dosages, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Empathogens are typically substituted amphetamine derivatives (such as MDMA) which act as broad 5-HT (serotonin) releasers, or act in some way to flood the brain with seratonin.
		But it should be stated clearly that if you want a fully psychedelic effect you should stick with the classic psychedelics; don’t go overdosing on an empathogen or an entactogen trying to make it do something it is not very good at.
		The side effects of this kind of high dose-range experimentation with empathogens or entactogens typically doesn’t warrant the unwanted side effects, like sudden spikes in blood pressure, loss of consciousness, respiratory failure, and death.
	www.tripzine.com /pit.asp?id=pit12 (3903 words)

	Psychedelic drug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some drugs, such as the ß-carbolines, produce very different effects from the more standard types of psychedelics.
		The primary effects of the empathogens include openness, euphoria, empathy, love, and heightened self-awareness.
		Its initial adoption by the dance club sub-culture is probably due to the enhancement of the overall social and musical experience.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychedelic_drug (943 words)

	entactogens. com : the chemistry of the soul
		This is because the selective serotonin reuptake-inhibitors (SSRIs) tend to flatten rather than intensify emotion.
		What's needed instead are analogues and enhancements of today's entactogens and empathogens.
		Full-blown mental health demands the development of designer-drugs that are safe, clean and sustainable i.e.
	www.entactogens.com (450 words)

	The Genetics of True Love
		Happily, in the future it will be possible to mimic, and then magnify out of all recognition, the kind of altruistic devotion to each other that might have arisen if were we all 100% genetically-related clones.
		Hints of a capacity for universal love can be glimpsed fleetingly today on the empathogen 'hug-drug' MDMA (Ecstasy).
		But loving each other to bits can also be genetically pre-programmed.
	www.empathogens.com (373 words)

	Aldous Huxley : Brave New World
		Drugs - not least the magical trinity of empathogens, entactogens and entheogens - and eventually genetic engineering will open up revolutionary new state spaces of thought and emotion.
		This egotism is exemplified in the contemporary world by the effects of power-drugs such as cocaine and the amphetamines, or by the warm cocoon of emotional self-sufficiency afforded by opium and its more potent analogues and derivatives.
		Entactogens, say, [literally, to "touch within"] may eventually be as big an industry as diet pills; and what they offer by way of a capacity for self-love will be far more use in boosting personal self-esteem.
	www.huxley.net (13419 words)

	Twin Town Treatment Centers-Drug Alcohol Treatment Program
		During a "mission", essentially a 3-4 day crack-binge, users may consume up to 50 rocks a day.
		Whereas "empathogens" such as ecstasy - which trigger the release of far more serotonin than dopamine - will typically promote empathy, trust, compassionate love and sociability, mainly dopaminergic drugs, if taken on their own and to excess, can easily have the reverse effect.
		Simplistically, cocaine tends to be a "selfish" drug.
	twintowntreatmentcenters.com /cocaine.shtml (213 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| Treating agony with ecstasy
		The study is the latest example of revived interest in the medicinal properties of controlled hallucinogenic or psychedelic drugs, loosely defined by their ability to alter perception, cognition or mood.
		Some researchers place MDMA in a different class, the empathogens, because it influences emotions.
		Trials of MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder are already under way in America, and psilocybin is being tried for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
	society.guardian.co.uk /drugsandalcohol/story/0,8150,1415886,00.html (1927 words)

	scotto: amt-mdma.html
		Doses: My standard doses of each - I do not intend to describe my standard dose of GHB, for fear of leading anyone to the conclusion that my habits in these matters are sane and should be replicated.
		I'd had perhaps dozens of experiences with GHB by itself prior to these events, enough to feel very comfortable with its general trajectory in me. I find the GHB intoxication very enjoyable typically - disinhibiting, sensual, giddy and good-natured.
		I completely and stupidly ignored the obvious fact that using GHB before MDMA is not the same as using GHB after MDMA, an experience I'd never had, nor even bothered researching before trying it that first night.
	www.scotto.org /urban/reports/mdma-ghb.html (1707 words)

	Druggies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Among them, there are stimulants, depressants, aphrodisiacs, empathogens, convulsants, drugs that trigger violent outbursts, drugs that deaden emotion.
		In 1976, Shulgin tried and introduced to the world Ecstasy, made by Merck in 1914.
		But if you do and like it, we still let you play with us.
	www.kodiaksrfc.org /AboutUs/druggies.html (115 words)

	Psychedelics, entactogens and depression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Encouraging results seem to recommend further research, with special emphasis on drugs in the phenylisopropylamine subgroup of phenylalkylamines that are only peripherally psychedelic.
		Certain of these, called entactogens or empathogens, cause substantially less distortion of normative consciousness than classic psychedelics, such as LSD or mescaline.
		They could therefore be more easily assimilated into existing psychotherapy approaches, where their function would be to enhance the normal psychotherapeutic process rather than serving a maintenance role as chemotherapeutic agents.
	www.psychopharmacology.net /entactempath.htm (165 words)

	Lycaeum > Leda > The Essential Psychedelic Guide by D.M. Turner
		Ecstasy also does not heighten one's senses to the level of infinite sharpness that is common with the traditional psychedelics.
		Ecstasy is sometimes called an empathogen because of its ability to facilitate emotional empathy and communication.
		However, I found this empathogenic quality to be very deep and transformative, much more meaningful than the comparatively shallow emotional bliss that I tend to experience on ecstasy.
	leda.lycaeum.org /?ID=16404 (18475 words)

	The Plains of Heaven : an Introduction to Paradise Engineering
		He wishes to take the jealously competitive Darwinian thrust out of this primal emotion, to expunge the cruel criterion of physical appearance and quell the selfish gene with its obsessive self-replicating urge, its wanton ravishing and planting, and replace it with something deeper, more mystical and satisfying.
		I am sure empathogens would be recruited to do some serious digging here - namely to broaden the obsessive beam of erotic concentration to embrace a universal banquet of the senses.
		At this point language is bound for falter, for we are invoking a phenomenology of responses that will have to evolve a huge new vocabulary in order to facilitate discourse.
	huxley.net /pauln/index.html (3687 words)

	Key 23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This was the house where my mind and soul met and shook hands.
		Where Crowley, and Leary, and McKenna, and Bob Wilson all took hold of me amidst an endless whirling of psychedelics and empathogens.
		For some time we had a tent set up in the living room, hung with christmas lights, for safety meetings and ecstacy huddles.
	www.key23.net /occulture/archives/2005/03/20/nice-to-be-meeting-myself (817 words)

	Erowid Experience Vaults: GHB & MBDB, GHB & MDMA - Mistakes One Through Five
		Recently I had a pair of disturbing experiences combining empathogens with GHB, disturbing enough to warrant a loud and clear warning from the other side.
		I had also along the way experimented with using GHB before MDMA, as a pleasant way to 'warm up' before MDMA, with no ill effects; occasionally if too much GHB was used, the MDMA would seem a bit muted, but that was the worst of it.
		At the tail end of the experience, after my partner had gone to sleep, I decided to take the edge off by taking some GHB and relaxing myself to sleep.
	www.erowid.org /experiences/exp.php?ID=8635 (1759 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Laboratory > Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin and the legalization of MDMA
		) By Shulgin's own count, he has created nearly 200 psychedelic compounds, among them stimulants, depressants, aphrodisiacs, "empathogens," convulsants, drugs that alter hearing, drugs that slow one's sense of time, drugs that speed it up, drugs that trigger violent outbursts, drugs that deaden emotion -- in short, a veritable lexicon of tactile and emotional experience.
		I think someone should at least be able to examine/continue Shulgin's work on the potential benefits of MDMA and the other 'empathogens' which he pioneered.
		It was a semi-autobiographical thing by Ann and Sasha Shulgin (each wrote a few chapters) and on the whole, it was emotional and rewarding.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/20308 (2547 words)

	Psychedelics ( Entheogens ) and Cognitive Liberty, law, policy, legislation, drug law, freedom, drug war, drug ...
		World-renowned chemist Dr. Alexander Shulgin provides reliable answers to questions concerning psychedelics and empathogens.
		Our law and policy center frequently issues alerts and legal analysis of proposed legislation, new laws and recent court decisions concerning entheogens and empathogens.
		If you're a drug defense attorney or legal professional interested in defending and helping to elaborate on the fundamental right to cognitive liberty, please join our Cognitive Liberty Legal Defense Network.
	www.cognitiveliberty.org /issues/psychedelics_index.htm (333 words)

	Body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When in San Diego, 1993 to 1996, I conducted LEGAL public health trials using empathogens PROVING therapeutic utility.
		World community awarded me ALL PATENTS for psychotomimetics and empathogens as I am the ONLY human allowed to have those PATENTS and able to use them for public health!
		The Dept. of the Treasury was in my computer the whole time during, before and after the Internet sabotage to divert my e-mails refered to as the night of : "Zen Rabbit in the Moon (bunny), by students observing the 4/5'th of World Interner shut down.
	www.molecule1.com (1824 words)

	The Good Drug Guide
		Apparently by contrast, the empathogen "hug-drug" Ecstasy (methylenedioxymethamphetamine; MDMA) offers a wonderfully warm, sensuous, loving, and empathetic peak experience to the first-time user - "a brief fleeting moment of sanity" [Dr Claudio Naranjo].
		Moreover it can be argued that the research and development of safe and sustainable E-like empathogens and socialbilizers is as morally urgent as the license of safe and sustainable euphoriants.
		At any rate, enhanced mesolimbic dopamine release, exclusively or otherwise, enriches the intensity of experience; increases pleasure and libido, and potentially boosts cognitive performance.
	www.neuropharmacology.com (8859 words)

	XTC &other
		They are very rare and but they are all likely to become more popular, as they represent an advance on LSD.
		The drugs seem to have similar effects, which are highly dosage dependent and they are best used in low doses where many have been described as empathogens -- non-hallucinogenic psychedelics, which promote empathy between people and remove fear in the same context.
		Some say there are subtle differences in effects between these drugs, however there is little reliable information at the present time.
	www.xs4all.nl /~4david/xtcplus.html (1736 words)

	San Francisco Examiner - 16 Feb 92
		It works as an entactogen and as an empathogen." Eisner defines an entactogen as a substance that, "affects the transformation of the inner psyche.
		It gives a sense of heightened self-esteem and a feeling of "alrightness" with the world." Empathogens, he says, "increase empathy and interpersonal communication.
		People have a tendency to break through barriers in terms of enhanced intimacy and clarity of communication.
	media.hyperreal.org /library/articles/SanFranExam_920216.html (4953 words)

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