When the government came knocking, John Lilly demanded his ideas remain declassified. When Sasha Shulgin got that first hint of a DEA crackdown, he published all his pharmacological recipes. It’s there in the democratizing effects of Mickey Siegel’s consciousness-hacking meet-ups, it’s why OneTaste has built an Orgasmic Meditation app downloadable anywhere in the world, it’s what fuels the volunteers of the Burning Man diaspora. Open-sourcing ecstasis remains one of the best counterbalances to private and public coercion.
