What Is MDMA ?
HEMPEARTH – MDMA is a psychoactive substance known as an empathogen or entactogen due to its ability to increase empathy, connectedness, and emotional understanding. MDMA is also sometimes used in psychotherapy due to its ability to affect serotonin and dopamine levels in the brain.
How does MDMA interact with our sense of love?
“When we think about love, we have to remember that it’s a multi-dimensional phenomenon. We’re used to talking about love in terms of what it feels like subjectively, and a lot of poetry, philosophy, and literature explores the subjective dimension of love. And then there are historians who come along and point out that the social framing of love changes over time. That what counts as love in a different historical or social context doesn’t remain stable. And so they would point out that love is partly socially constructed in a certain way of thinking about things.
And then this new wave of research that’s all about neuroscience. And it’s another group of researchers saying, ‘Well, but love also has a biological dimension. Love is also something that at least in part is related to what’s going on in our brains.’ And so if we want to have a full accounting of what love is, it’s got to take into account the biology, the psychology, the subjective experience, and the social context.
With a psychoactive like MDMA, what’s interesting is it certainly is acting on the brain. There’s no doubt about that. MDMA causes the release of a large amount of serotonin. And that has a certain subjective way that it feels. A lot of people report that it feels to them like they felt when they experienced love in a non-altered state.
MDMA And The Default State Of Compassion
“Compassion should be our default attitude ”
The entactogen 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA”) has been highlighted as another psychoactive substance that improve self-compassion as its recreational use can produce feelings of closeness or connection with others. If MDMA can facilitate the ability to be compassionate towards oneself, as well as others..
Many MDMA-assisted psychotherapy patients are moved into a state of harmony arising from within their deepest inner selves. Feelings of compassion, kindness, and happiness develop out of a synchronization within themselves.
A psychologist in the MDMA field wrote, “Under favorable circumstances and with a supportive set and setting , people feel that the MDMA experience elicits true compassion, forgiveness, and understanding for those with whom they have important relationships; and most importantly, for themselves, for their ordinary, neurotic, childish, struggling persona or ego.”
What is microdosing MDMA?
Microdosing MDMA is dosing small, sub-threshold amounts of a psychedelic with the aim of gaining cognitive and creative benefits. It is a practice which is becoming increasingly popular, with the idea that taking a low dose will provide a mild psychological or physical effect without the intense psychedelic experience that a full dose is known for.
MDMA Dosage?
MDMA dosage depends on the individual and one’s experience. Generally, the recommended starting dose of MDMA is around 100mg, with lower doses ranging from 40-60mg and higher doses ranging from 100-160mg. When starting with a new batch of MDMA, it is best to take a quarter of the dose first and wait 1.5 hours until taking the rest to gauge tolerance.
