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Isn't there some great deal of art coming from psychedelic experiences. Many bands of the sixties and seventies or art of Alex Grey. Shamans had an very importa
by h43z 7y ago
Isn't there some great deal of art coming from psychedelic experiences. Many bands of the sixties and seventies or art of Alex Grey. Shamans had an very important role in groups and tribes for a long time. Religious revelations could have been results of altered states of consciousness (eg moses 10 commandments).
On a more personal and emotional note I always had the feeling when tripping of great profundity but being unable to take the wisdom to the other side. I guess I would make be a bad shaman.
- scottlocklin 7y agoYeah, that's kind of my point. Alex Gray and Deep Purple aren't exactly Vermeer and Mozart. If psychedelics are all that profound, rather than just a drug producing chemical simulacrums of profundity, you'd have better examples than these.
- h43z 7y agoAren't they in a way the Mozarts of their time? I'm not sure what you expect and demand of psychedelics. When will be something profound enough for you? For many it was and is.
- scottlocklin 7y ago>Aren't they in a way the Mozarts of their time? Absolutely not. Avro Part and György Ligeti are the Mozarts of their time. And they were very, very far from being Mozart. I expect and demand that drugs which people tout as some amazing breakthrough in human consciousness demonstrate something beyond "I thought it was cool." If something you can buy for $4 in pill form really creates higher states of consciousness, and the words "higher states of consciousness" actually means something, you'd expect there to be 1000 Mozarts by now, rather than ... dipshits saying Iron Butterfly's drum solo is, like, totally cool man.
- h43z 7y agoIt's all very subjective what you state.