Altered States of Consciousness, particularly with those compounds classed as hallucenogens (LSD, marijuana -- medically considered an hallucenogen) can induce creativity.
Drs. Arietti and Ernst have isolated the germ of creativity, particularly insofar as writing is concerned.
They said that in creativity primary process thinking, which they called old logic or paleologic takes hold.
In paleologic, we have the seed of the poetic metaphor and the psychotic delusion.
It's like thjs: In paleologic, IDENTIFICATION IS BASED ON A COMMON ATTRIBUTE. A is the same as C because they both have D in common. In mature logic, this identification is illogical, ie., in the real world A does not equal B because they have C in common
Example of paleologic: The schizophrejnic sees a tierra on a queen; he sees a cap on his nurse. Both the nurse and the queen have headgear.
The psychotic's conclusion: The nurse is Queen Elizabeth of England
PALEOLOGIC IN THE POETIC METAPHOR:
Consider this metaphor:
Clouds are icebergs in the sky.
Clouds have the same shape and color of icebergs; hence they are icebergs.
In any event, drugs can stimulate primary process thinkiing
I have done that with a bunch of poem. Two of my posts are up-front and part of the titles contain the worlds "with a little help from my chemical friends."
Where would a song like I am the Walrus be without acid
I fully appreciate your one hit/two hit/three hit take. Years ago in a different life I used to plan the syllabi for my English courses at the kitchen table ... and, well, one hit made me think 'yes, they can do that pretty easily,' two hits brought a clarity to the picture - specifically, that they didn't really need THAT long for that novel, and as they were bright they didn't need THAT much time in the library for their research papers - but three hits. Damn. That opened a floodgate that resulted in the 'stranger unit' where we read Camus, Hesse and Kafka and one where Othello, Heart of Darkness and Death of A Salesman were combined in ways I'd never been able to see unenhanced. Poor kids!
That's sort of funny. Waaaaaayyyyyyy back when I was attending a community college with my then girlfriend, to be wife-mother of our 4 children... we took a psychology class called Love and Marriage.
As instructors go, he was a throw-back. The entire class ended up at his house one night, drinking wine, smoking pot... basically a trippy little hang.
You were basically a step away from THAT guy! ;-)
I may have appreciated your odd combo of reading material.
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Altered States of Consciousness, particularly with those compounds classed as hallucenogens (LSD, marijuana -- medically considered an hallucenogen) can induce creativity.
Drs. Arietti and Ernst have isolated the germ of creativity, particularly insofar as writing is concerned.
They said that in creativity primary process thinking, which they called old logic or paleologic takes hold.
In paleologic, we have the seed of the poetic metaphor and the psychotic delusion.
It's like thjs: In paleologic, IDENTIFICATION IS BASED ON A COMMON ATTRIBUTE. A is the same as C because they both have D in common. In mature logic, this identification is illogical, ie., in the real world A does not equal B because they have C in common
Example of paleologic: The schizophrejnic sees a tierra on a queen; he sees a cap on his nurse. Both the nurse and the queen have headgear.
The psychotic's conclusion: The nurse is Queen Elizabeth of England
PALEOLOGIC IN THE POETIC METAPHOR:
Consider this metaphor:
Clouds are icebergs in the sky.
Clouds have the same shape and color of icebergs; hence they are icebergs.
In any event, drugs can stimulate primary process thinkiing
I have done that with a bunch of poem. Two of my posts are up-front and part of the titles contain the worlds "with a little help from my chemical friends."
Where would a song like I am the Walrus be without acid
Will call when we get back. Until then...
I fully appreciate your one hit/two hit/three hit take. Years ago in a different life I used to plan the syllabi for my English courses at the kitchen table ... and, well, one hit made me think 'yes, they can do that pretty easily,' two hits brought a clarity to the picture - specifically, that they didn't really need THAT long for that novel, and as they were bright they didn't need THAT much time in the library for their research papers - but three hits. Damn. That opened a floodgate that resulted in the 'stranger unit' where we read Camus, Hesse and Kafka and one where Othello, Heart of Darkness and Death of A Salesman were combined in ways I'd never been able to see unenhanced. Poor kids!
That's sort of funny. Waaaaaayyyyyyy back when I was attending a community college with my then girlfriend, to be wife-mother of our 4 children... we took a psychology class called Love and Marriage.
As instructors go, he was a throw-back. The entire class ended up at his house one night, drinking wine, smoking pot... basically a trippy little hang.
You were basically a step away from THAT guy! ;-)
I may have appreciated your odd combo of reading material.
Thanks for commenting and dropping by.