Archive | Interviews of Bruce

They call him Bruce Mark Ameba discusses drugs, the counterculture, and the new Millenium with author and psychedelic visionary Bruce Eisner.

Bruce Eisner’s expertise in the world of psychedelics needs little introduction. Author of ‘ECSTASY: The M.D.M.A. Story’ and founder of the Island Group, a free association of individuals dedicated to the creation of a psychedelic culture, Bruce has been a key figure in the psychedelic underground since the 60s, and has long been associated with luminaries like Timothy Leary, Albert Hoffman, Laura Huxley, and Alexander Shulgin. Island Group publishes a magazine format newsletter called Psychedelic Island Views and hosts Read more »

An Interview with Bruce Eisner San Francisco, August 20, 1998

Masashi Kitazato: How was MDMA first used and how did you become involved in writing about it?

Bruce Eisner: “Long before I first use MDMA 1978, MDMA was discovered in Germany around the turn of the century. However, nobody used it back then. In the ‘Fifties, they experimented on animals and in, and in early 70’s people started using it including some psychologists who began experiment with it. Dr Alexander Shulgin wrote the first paper about it. At the same time, a psychologist whose name is never mentioned began traveling around the US, Read more »

An InterviewBruce Eisner – May 1996Interview in Santa Cruz’s Hawk Magzainehttp://web.archive.org/web/19980121231818/www.cruzio.com/~hawk/In May, I made my way to the western edge of Santa Cruz to meet Bruce Eisner, author of "Ecstasy: the MDMA story", and founder of the "Island Group", an informal psychedelic cultural think tank.

After chatting about Bruce’s recent visit to Tim Leary, Leary’s plans for cryogenically preserving his brain upon his death, (an event that has sadly come to pass since), shamanic use of drugs in primitive cultures, and other "New Age" topics, I turned on the tape and Bruce shared his thoughts about MDMA, drugs and Read more »