Re: MAPS: Justifying a Tim Leary claim

[Peter Webster <vignes@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:10 28/02/99 -0000, Karl Shikles wrote: 
>>>>
Tim Leary, true to his fanatical reputation, claims in his autobiographical
work "Flashbacks" that a number of groundbreaking scientific and
mathematical insights were reached under the influence of LSD and
psilocybin.  Does anyone know of any accounts or studies (other than the
usual ones which claim to find increased creativity in randomly selected
subjects) which justify this claim?  I would be most interested in
researching such cases.>>>>

The Psychedelic Library reproduces two articles of note about psychedelics
and creativity:

"Selective Enhancement of Specific Capacities
  Through Psychedelic Training"
    Willis W. Harman and James Fadiman
From: PSYCHEDELICS, The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs,
Bernard Aaronson and Humphrey Osmond, editors, Doubleday & Company, 1970.
Copyright Aaronson & Osmond, Harman & Fadiman. The following article is an
overview of the paper: Harman, et. al., in Psychedelic Reports 19, 211-27,
1966, "Psychedelic Agents in Creative Problem-Solving: A Pilot Study."
	http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/harman.htm
  or	http://www.drugtext.org/psychedelics/harman.htm


Also of note:
"The Creative Process and the Psychedelic Experience "
by Frank Barron, a lecture presented May 9, 1964 as part of a symposium
entitled "LSD: Basic Problems and Potentialities" held at San Jose State
College. Published in Explorations magazine, Berkeley California, June-July
1965.
	http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/barron.htm
  or	http://www.drugtext.org/psychedelics/barron.htm

>From the first of these two articles:

"This article discusses exploratory work that was interrupted early in 1966
when the Food and Drug Administration, as a strategy in combating the
illicit-use problem, declared a moratorium on research with normal human
subjects. In view of the preliminary nature of the work, it would not under
ordinary circumstances have been submitted for publication. However,
because of the significance of the hypotheses, and because they are
consistent with experience gained in a previous study of four hundred
subjects who received psychedelics in a therapy context, and because of the
hope that when it is again possible to resume psychedelic research the
non-medical applications will get long-overdue attention, the decision was
made to release these results in their present, unfinished form."

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