Bruce Jay Ehrlich (better known by his writing name Bruce Eisner) (born Brooklyn, New York, February 26, 1948) is an American writer, psychologist, and counterculture spokesman best known for his book Ecstasy: The MDMA Story. He received his B.A.in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1979, his M.A. in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, California. He is owner of the Mind Media Life Enhancement Network and President of the Island Foundation. Image File history File links Bruceeisner. ... Image File history File links Bruceeisner. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A psychologist is a scientist who studies psychology, the systematic investigation of the human behaviour and mental processes. ... In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream, a cultural equivalent of a political opposition. ... The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC or UC Santa Cruz) is a coeducational public university located in Santa Cruz, California, USA. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and ranked by US News as the twenty-eighth best public university in the nation. ... University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California. ... Nickname: The City by the Bay Motto: Official website: http://www. ...
Bruce Jay Ehrlich (better known by his writing name BruceEisner) (born Brooklyn, New York, February 26, 1948) is an American writer, psychologist, and counterculture spokesman best known for his book Ecstasy: The MDMA Story.
He received his B.A.in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1979, his M.A. in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, California.
Modern Alchemy: Interview with Ann and Sasha Shulgin.
Eisner is the founder of a "psychedelic-cybernetic organization" called Island Foundation and the author of Ecstasy: The MDMA Story.
It was Leary's The Intelligence Agents (and Huxley's novel Island) that inspired Eisner to form the Island Foundation http://www.island.org/BRUCE/story.html.
Leary also made Eisner aware of the promising possibilities of computers and the striking similarity between the psychedelic experience, during which one feels that he/she leaves his/her narrow reality tunnel and enters a multi-choice reality labyrinth, and the hypertext universe of the Internet, which gives one the same feeling (Eisner, Bruce.
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