Probably should be staged as a rhetorical question, or maybe I would have been better asking how they have enhanced your art. For me personally, I haven't drawn directly on any one psychedelic experience in any of my creations, but the way in which I think about what I create, and what I think in general have certainly been altered by psychedelic insights. I find myself much more inclined to photograph more natural, undisturbed settings and have been drawn to how that is juxtaposed with the day to day life of an average member of this culture. I also find myself getting much more present and "into" what ever I'm working on, whether it's writing, woodwork, or photography, and I have been gradually learning to let go and allow the art to spontaneously use my vehicle as its outlet. I'm really interested in what might be gleaned from a small dose of L or something else and a dedicated work session. I know that Kesey wrote a good portion of Cukoos Nest on acid, and for that book it seems to make perfect sense. I'm just curious to see who else has experimented with this type and thing and what might have been discovered?

Drugs like LSD allowed me an enhanced perception giving me a synesthetic approach toward music, for example. Each note has a universal reflection. The way you play can create stories that reflect the history that repeats itself. It's hard to explain. You can hear it. You can FEEL it. You can learn so much in this sensory overdrive mode.

In a nutshell, yes, they have. In many ways. My writing, my visual art, my music, the art that is my existence, have all been enhanced by the psychedelic. Hell, even the art of cooking!

Psychedelics and creativity go hand in hand. They overdrive the engine that projects your consciousness. Insight is inevitable.

Well i've never been a great drawer but after much psychedelic work that comes easier now and i've been shocked at what comes out in some of my class doodles that i did in a sort of 'free writing' state. To say it has enhanced my creative process would be accurate, but that encompasses so many aspects of life it would take pages to even begin to describe. To simply paraphrase leary, or someone, i think psychedelics are to consciousness as the telescope was to astronomy. I think they can help bring out the creative abilities stored within all of us that have been hammered out by left brain dominance, the education system, society, ect.. They help manifest the auto-poetic imagination within each one of us, and with dedication you see this flow into the real world and attain physical expression

yes.

yes. particularly mushrooms and acid (though its been a while since I took acid)

My favorite thing to do is ride my bed or couch in darkness, post peak...listening to the alien scales and rhythms. Impossible to recreate (for me) but the results of my attempts can be cool.

My artwork moves and changes in ways that remind me of my psychelic experiences. Which came first--does my art imitate my trips, or are my trips merely that way due to the same imagination being involved in both? Other times my work is a deliberate attempt to manifet things I have seen whilst tripping. Other times my art is deliberately spacing out, involving automatic drawing and other surrealistic techniques which are designed to access subconscious, nonrational self, an' stuff, thus the experience of creating is itself often a trip--though of a different order perhaps.


The relationship between art and psychedelic is one that has developed over many years and is rather intimate, perhaps the two are entirely and irreversably integrated for many of us.

This is exactly what I've been thinking of, thanks House! Psychedelics have opened my mind and I'll never be the same again, fortunately. Not only on the level of creation, but regarding basic things such as communication, compassion, sex, and yes, cooking - they're all enhanced thanks to having insight.

Indirectly, yes. Psychedelics have shown me things in the music of others I might have overlooked sober. It's in noticing these details that my musical sense has been altered and this is what seeps into my creative process. Otherwise, no. There is no observable effect. Now, if I'm tripping and playing music at the same time, it doesn't come out so good. It's in those cases that I either play something horribly kitsch or banal, or (in the case of mushrooms) I just slide and bend the strings incoherently on my guitar.

They have definitely enhanced my art, or least gives me the motivation.

Psychedelics have definitely helped me in conceptualizing odd rhythms and melodies in my drumming and guitar playing and in writing music for that matter. They also helped me find what I want to write about lyrics wise. Great subject matter

I'm a fine art student, and yes, psychedelics have enhanced my creative process a lot. I can't even start to wonder what I'd be painting about if I hadn't experimented with psychedelics!