Researchers have shown that there are similarities in creative people and in people using psychedelic drugs and so, a beneficial look upon psychedelic drugs is experiencing a global renaissance. Like if you know where to look and how to look you could see how the usage of these drugs is fostering an artistic outburst.
So for a moment let's consider this positively and not look at the side effects of drug usage. Proponents of psychedelic drugs have long insisted that drugs are capable of expanding the mind , provide novel insights and boost creativity.
But recent researches have started to demonstrate that what is really happening is that mind altering substances are increasing communication between various regions of the brain. This leads to a mental state that is highly imaginative, sensorily vibrant and emotionally intense. So when the subject is under usage he or she rapidly goes from normal conscious state to the psychedelic state that leads to have visual hallucinations and active mode thinking.
Then if the use of drugs can act like a key to open your own mind why is this considered as bad? Why are people always looking down on drugs if they really can give the user some extent of positive outcome?
Here comes the issue, studies show that not all the hallucinogens users experience and active mode thinking; mostly it is similar to what we go through while dreaming, and only few experience the dissolution of the self. Under psychedelic drugs the brain networks that controls our personality and our ongoing stream of conciousness is particularly affected and the hogher organization of the brain collapses all at once. The sense of self created by previous experiences doesn't seem solid and brittles, and a sense of uncertainity and novelty takes over and this makes the user live the moment seeing it with almost a child-like eyes. And this is what we refer by the losing of ourself.
So is this what artists call as the gateway for creativity? When an incredible piece of art is made there is something entirely selfless about it, spontaneity and absence of selfconciousness that makes the artwork not only potrait the artist's own view but makes the observer irrespectively relate to it in his own way. Since an artist main pupouse is to make a remarkable artwork, the usage of drugs really seems a positive substance to be used in oder to achive their aim.
But if we consider the loss of selfness that can be experienced through drugs and so considered the main step to create something remarkable then the authenticity of the artist can be rediscussed. If artists are looking for psychedelic drugs to loose their selfness and so create a something through which every observer can relate then they are unable to claim for their own artwork. That means that by loosing their own self they loose their own personality and their own way of thinking is definetely affected. Then what they want to convey and what they will actually be able to convey wont match and so the artist as the person and the artist that sends us a certain message will no longer be the same person but two different identities. So if we consider that way and start questioning abt the true self of the artist and the self that is depicted through a certain opera then the moral concepts that the artist wants to potrait through his work can be questioned.
The usage of drugs definetely make the user , tha artist, falsely believe that by using they are more creative but that happens because of the dopamine, released in our nervous system, that makes to pay more attention and increases out interest and this is misunderstood as an enhancement in their own creativity.
Drugs are not a gateway to find creativity or your innerself, they make you loosen the bond with your own personality and make you feel anonimous for yourself, they show the user different facets that are already in front of us but we are uncapable to see them superficially. Drugs show a side of yourself that you are not connected with and make you communicate more easily a cetain concept, so they can be helpful to see different sides but the interpretation of those sides will still depend on you.
Everyone is creative in their own way, but the result on use of substances will vary based on their own open state of conciousness. So practically no creativity will be enhanced. Never depend on any sort of drug hoping to access creativity or new emotions. Hardwork , practice and life experiences seen standing on the neutral side will level up your creativity.
- Hiruni Perera
So True
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