Rave Culture and Religion

5 The flesh of raving Merleau-Ponty and the ‘experience’ of ecstasy^1 James Landau The ecstasy of raving is problematic.^2 Often ...

the electronic music and dance scene has long flirted with the idea of spiritual connections. Names of events such as ‘Spiritual ...

In opposition to this unyielding empiricism, the religious overbeliefs of ravers describe the experience of ecstasy as a ‘transc ...

The ‘experience’ of ecstasy: subjectivity and the flight from language Perhaps indicative of our culture’s unfortunate marginali ...

Before we can examine this ontology, though, we must follow the lead of Pini’s apt invocation of Angela McRobbie’s ‘call to live ...

of lasers, participants are transported to a perceptual realm of inconstancy, a place where words are swallowed whole by the dar ...

separation of the ecstatic moment from the cultures of clubbing and raving within which it is embedded. Finding it more useful t ...

is the body in abundance of its (biological, psychical, and signifying) organization and organs...[It is an] attempt to denatura ...

‘how does it work?’ Sidestepping the neurodeterministic reduction of ecstasy to MDMA, this approach asks by what means, and to w ...

the ‘“return” to a stage in psychological development which is before the acquisition of language, thereby undoing the self that ...

themselves in the neo-Cartesianisms of empiricism or intellectualism, no Western philosopher has truly escaped solipsism because ...

world that subtend self-reflective consciousness. It is ultimately these subconscious knowledges that are thematized to produce ...

people, the all-encompassing vibration of the bass, even the feel of the grainy dirt on my palms when I sit down on the floor fo ...

Difference-within-identity: the gnosis of ecstatic flesh Rave...allows us to access a space (within ourselves) completely outsid ...

unreflective perceptual awareness free of oppositional thought, and therefore of any thematized concept of ‘difference’, the tas ...

arises out of a desire to ground it in perception, sensation and the body, all of which, while eagerly praised by practitioners, ...

6 For further information, see Grosz (1999) for her study of Freud and his notion of the body ego, as well as Schilder, whose wo ...

Jordan, T. (1995) ‘Collective bodies: raving and the politics of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’, Body and Society 1(1): 125– ...

6 Entheogenic dance ecstasis: cross-cultural contexts 1 Des Tramacchi Participation in psychedelic dance parties can produce exp ...

Second, because I wish to present the rituals in some detail, I have chosen accounts that are representative and thorough. Toget ...