This so-called research is totally tendentious rot. Just look at the clumsy glowing allusions to Aldous Huxley's cultish "Doors of Perception", for instance. This "mind expansion" is actually psychosis not creativity. Our society has been manipulated by putative aesthetic authorities to worship just such signs of psychosis as creativity since the CIA project called the Congress for Cultural Freedom launched the fraud known as modern art.
This tendency to foster and promote such "altered" states of mind as artistic or pseudo-religious "phrensy" is as old as mud. The trick is nothing but a means of control by neutralizing a perceived potential threat from the" rabble" to an oligarchical system. Thus the Dionysian cults that festered from ancient times until today have been part and parcel of the empire's bread and circuses.
Eratosthenes first measured the circumference of the earth from the shadows cast by the sun. Today, humanity's fitness to survive will be measured by our ability to conquer that same thermonuclear fusion that casts those shadows. Thus, Prometheus will truly be unbound.
Friday, July 04, 2014
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