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From: dolphin@ziggys.cts.com (Rex Kahler) 619/262-6384
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Old Book
Message-ID: <uyFNec14w165w@ziggys.cts.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 03:48:05 PST
(from "The Collective Spirit" by Viggo Cavling, 1926)
"The fact that people can become the slaves of stimulants
which intensify, though but temporarily, their sense of
creative activity, is really due to the peculiar satisfaction we
experience in feeling the creative power at work within us.
And if we cannot get it to work in any other way, we have
recourse to alcohol, opium or hashish. The opium-smoker
says good-bye to the world of automatism and goes off on a
grand tour through the golden realms of fantasy, the wonder-
land of the creative power.
The word intoxication is used with reference to to drugs,
such as opium or morphia; but it applies also to the ecstasy
of artistic creation. ... The opium smoker's trance and
the ecstasy of the artist at his work are but a sleeping and a
waking form of the same thing. In sleep the result will be
visions, phantoms, fantsy; waking, it gives us art, invention,
new ideas, a moral exhultaion."
back beneath the waves
D o l p h i n R e x
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