The Ecstatic States of America: A Manifesto for a New Country of the Mind

By Jason Silva

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality

In The Ecstatic States of America (2026), filmmaker and futurist Jason Silva describes a "country of the mind" whose citizens are bound not by borders but by attention, ritual and a capacity for wonder. The short manifesto maps that country's declaration, rituals and citizens. Drawing on psychedelic traditions, futurism and American countercultural history, Silva argues that wonder is a public good and that ecstasy can be a civic art. Expanded states of consciousness, he contends, need stewardship rather than excess if they are to last.