Re: MAPS: Justifying a Tim Leary claim

[rod sandcones <galeros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Another scientist who credits LSD is Kary Mullis. His discovery
of PCR(polymerase chain reaction) relating to DNA was enough to get him
the Nobel Prize.  He is an interesting character, to say the least.  

If you'd like to buy his book, it is available at:

http://www.promind.com/bk_dnm.htm


As far as art goes, Alex Grey is an extremely talented visionary artist
who owes much credit to visionary substances such as LSD and DMT.
If you don't already have a copy, I HIGHLY recommend *Sacred Mirrors*.

You can get it here:

http://www.promind.com/bk_sam.htm

His newest book is called *The Mission of Art*.  Hopefully, Mind Books
will have that, soon.

As far as personal opinion, I feel that drawing a conclusion that LSD
fosters creativity may not be entirely accurate.  What I mean is that 
if any person were to take LSD , that person does not necessarily
automatically  become creative. I believe it CAN foster creativity, it
definitely facilitates it, but it doesn't hold for every person or even
every time.

werking da pattern,
galeros



On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Peter Webster wrote:

> 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:
> 	http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/harman.htm
>   or	http://www.drugtext.org/psychedelics/harman.htm
> 
> 
> Also of note:
> 	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."
> 
> _________________________________________________________
>   Peter Webster				vignes@xxxxxxxxx

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