This has always been a favorite topic of mine, early CIA-sponsored LSD experiments in the 50's and 60's. I found this website chronicling an artist under the influence.
That is an amazing progression, so exciting :) I would have loved to have been in on this, especially these early tests into creativity and subjective experience. For a long time, I considered going into this kind of research, but unfortunately a bunch of over-enthusiastic hippies went and got it illegalized. Only now, after 40 years of complete supression are psychedelics getting another chance to prove themselves as useful spiritual and psychological tools.
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These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.First drawing is done 20 minutes after the first dose (50ug) An attending doctor observes - Patient chooses to start drawing with charcoal. The subject of the experiment reports - 'Condition normal... no effect from the drug yet'.
That is an amazing progression, so exciting :) I would have loved to have been in on this, especially these early tests into creativity and subjective experience. For a long time, I considered going into this kind of research, but unfortunately a bunch of over-enthusiastic hippies went and got it illegalized. Only now, after 40 years of complete supression are psychedelics getting another chance to prove themselves as useful spiritual and psychological tools.
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