Ecstasy won over empathy. Pharmacist and MDMA promoter Alexander Shulgin wanted to call his drug of choice “empathy” for the communion effects caused by its shared use, but it ended up imbuing the intimate “ecstasy” with which Michael Clegg, a former priest who was a merchant drug addict, he baptized him in 70 who called himself a “missionary of ecstasy”. There is nothing: messenger of that anticipation of eternal life which is ecstasy in its theological meaning.
Some electronic music also has a lot of religious experience. The third chapter explains it well. The street, the extraordinary series created by Borja Soler and Roberto Martín Maiztegui broadcast on Atresplayer Premium. In it, a young curilla with as much devotion to Christ as to the path of the bakalao recalls another priest, Father Juan García Castillejo, a Valencian parish priest who wrote in 1944 The fast telegraphy, the keyboard and the electric music. The cadence of electronic music, this character explains, has a lot to do with prayer, with the mantra: the rosary and techno, first cousins.
From our secularism, far from the benefits of the liturgy, sitting down every Sunday to watch a television series is for many of us the closest thing to going to mass. The street He puts us alone, misunderstood, wounded people and makes them walk that 72-hour communion that was the bakalao route every weekend. Come to me those who are weary and burdened, and I will relieve you. The ecstasy – the empathy? – of the spectator is not that of Clegg or Santa Teresa, ours is a vicarious experience, but living through others who don’t even live is miraculous. Life can be eternal in 72 hours or in fifty minutes.
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