Do you ever wonder if the war on drugs, will instead of failing (which most people think will happen) it will succeed and eradicate the market for illegal drug use. Would it equalize society or remove from artistic creativeness. its seems to me now that a huge majority of great art and thought in society has come from the use of drugs. Is it good for the government to eradicate this unspoken cornerstone of our society? Or is this vise that controls the thoughts of millions in our world really the key to reaching new levels of thought and creativeness?
In the 70s high level thinkers and mathematicians were known to take small doses of LSD to think in a more abstract way to solve abstract problems. just a thought.
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I wanna thank Connor for all of the shout-outs, to me personally as well as to my blog. I would encourage all of my friends to be outspoken, to get involved, and to elevate their minds.
While reading that blog, the entire time I was focusing on how intelligently and eloquently you wrote it. Also a very interesting idea that we have spoken about before and I agree that many creative thinkers in the past, as far back as Mozart, have been 'under the influence' during their most creative times. Maybe it will always be that way? Just a thought! ; )
As to the war...As I look at my library, and recall what must be many thousand books I have read (50 years times 52 weeks times 2 books per week)I am inclined to think that most but not all have been authored in what I would call the rational mind.
That is not to say that Tom Robbins("Even cowgirls get the blues", or "Another Roadside Attraction") would have been as insightfull or entertaining (can you say "stream of consciounsness writing?)if he had been more on the straight and narrow, but on the whole I will cast my vote for works like "The Covenant", if I had to choose. It occurs that it may seem to the budding artist/sculptor/writer/ ect ect that the gates of creativity are best broken open with a dose of this or that, in retrospect I think that approach might be counter productive as certain emotional states cannot be experienced when the filters of perception are being warped skewed (choose your modifier) as is the stated goal of loading up on one drug or another. I am not saying that it is always counter beneficial but certainly carries significant risk in that "a bell once rung cannot be unrung" if you get my meaning. Not to pontificate but simply to offer a different perspective.
BOD
I agree that this idea of great writing without the use of mental "aids" being absolutely true. Butat the same time, I feel it is not the question of their creativeness but more to the point a new era of that has repeatedly ushered in based on the creativeness delivered on the wings of LSD and Marijuana. It is the artist that looks straight into depravity and madness, then records these thoughts that may achieve a new level of understanding. Froyd used mountains of cocaine only to see what would happen, and recorded huge amounts of information about the effects of the drug on him. Though I agree much great work was written and created through a natural state, some of the greatest works and most groundbreaking were brought about through deep meditation of thought. often aided by drug use.
You reference a "new era"... think about that...think of the Incas a thousand years ago and the ritualistic use of peyote they once used as their gateway..."nothing new under the sun""
Freud deserves another look. It is generally believed at the present time that his thoughts and theories, while intriguing, were not particularly useful in the treatment of mental disorder, but more a manifistation of his own internal disorder, which he input into his various patients. Read him in detail and perhaps follow it up with a look at Jung. An interesting note is a study done in the 80's ( I can't rmember who did it) that found no significant statistal difference at all between the several treatment methodologies, Freudian, Jungian, hypnotherapy regression, ect...
a last thought offered by an eastern thinker by the name of Krishnamurti who said in so many words, "reject everything, accept only that knowledge that you have proven to be valid"..Whew!
BOD
Drugs R stupid thats why most of these creative minds died early
wow good argument.... not
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