How Psychedelics Can Enhance Creative Thinking — PILGRIM SOUL

For decades, popular assumptions painted psychedelics in a bad and dangerous light even when research from a leading UK Government scientist, paints an entirely different picture, ranking LSD and Psilocybin 20 positions below Alcohol on a list of the most dangerous drugs. Still, artists and musicians and even Nobel Prize winning scientists like Richard Feynman persisted the idea that psychedelics can be instrumental in unlocking their creativity and influencing their subsequent work. Psychedelics continually sparked subversive, unconventional, and innovative pieces of creative work that still leave a lasting impression today.

For instance, the Beatles’ Revolver, dubbed their ‘acid album’, provided a breakthrough in music composition through the use of tape looping, modified speeds, and reversed vocals and instrumentals. Let’s also not forget the inspiration Stanley Kubrick drew from psychedelics when making 2001: A Space Odyssey, a now lauded classic.

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Since then, the idea of psychedelic use for work has found its way to Silicon Valley, where the act of ingesting small amounts of psychedelics is…