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Dedication
To Julie, Lucas, and Emma,
sine qua non.
J.W.
 
To William James, you got there first.
S.K.
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
Part One: The Case for Ecstasis
Chapter One: What Is This Fire?
Chapter Two: Why It Matters
Chapter Three: Why We Missed It
Part Two: The Four Forces of Ecstasis
Chapter Four: Psychology
Chapter Five: Neurobiology
Chapter Six: Pharmacology
Chapter Seven: Technology
Part Three: The Road to Eleusis
Chapter Eight: Catch a Fire
Chapter Nine: Burning Down the House
Chapter Ten: Hedonic Engineering
Conclusion
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
A Quick Note on Inside Baseball
Notes
Index
About the Authors
Also by Steven Kotler
Copyright
About the Publisher
Introduction
The Never-Ending Story
S
ome revolutions begin with a gunshot, others with a party. This one kicked off
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on a Friday night in downtown Athens, in 415 BCE. Alcibiades, a prominent Greek general
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and politician, had invited a small circle of friends to his villa for what was to become one of the more infamous bacchanals in history. Hooded in the stolen robes of a high priest, Alcibiades swept down his marble staircase, recited a forbidden incantation, and produced an ornate decanter. Carefully, he poured a single shot of a dark liquid into each guest’s glass. A few more words, an exuberant cheer, and everyone drained their cups.
In less than an hour,
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the effects took hold. “Fears, terrors, quiverings, mortal sweats, and a lethargic stupor come and overwhelm us,” the historian Plutarch later recounted. “But, as soon as we are out of it, we pass into delightful meadows, where the purest air is breathed, where sacred concerts and discourses are heard; where, in short, one is impressed with celestial visions.”
By sunup, those visions had faded, replaced by repercussions in the real world. Alcibiades’s illicit party kicked off a chain of events that would prompt him to flee Athens, dodge a death sentence, betray his government, and set in motion the trial and execution of his beloved teacher, Socrates.
Famously handsome, eloquent, and ambitious, Alcibiades’s faults were as plentiful as his gifts. He offered sex to Socrates in exchange for the philosopher’s deepest secrets. Before his wife could divorce him for womanizing, he dragged her out of court by her hair. Politically, he played both sides against the middle, and his only true allegiance was to his career. So when his rivals got wind of that scandalous evening, they ratted him out to the hig ............

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