Techno-shamanism and the economy of ecstasy as a religious experience

Over the course of this discussion, we have described three interpretations of ecstasy induced by the (electronic form of music) EDM experience. Pagan, Christian and secular dance music enthusiasts all see the primordial religious experiences induced by this environment through different lenses. Using Bourdieu's theory in this supposedly eclectic field, we have been able to observe a type of economy of ecstasy in which the cultural capital of three agents is in competition in the sub-field of rave culture and the (ir)religious experience. In other words, these cultural transactions of the meaning behind these (ir)religious experiences are in conflict, and thus structure this sub-field of (ir)religion into largely separate scenes witl1 competing interpretations of ecstasy. Thus we have been able to distinguish Neo-Pagan interpretations of ecstasy from those of two other competing agents within the sub-field of rave ecstasy.