Stuff like this is why I love this site. Thanks, Keith!

My favorite author Robert Anton Wilson had a similar process, but his creative fuel was cannabis:

Same here. That one and the two after it are pretty neat. I think he was actually drawing the doctor who administered the LSD (the guy was a portrait artist). More info can be found here:

And some people go through a Surrealist phase when they're tripping.

"Amateurs."

That's pretty awesome, considering Star Wars did have some pretty heavy Eastern influences.

If we utilize gold for actually useful (and amazingly innovative) purposes, then what will we wear on our fingers or eat on our extravagant ice cream sundaes?

A great website that keeps up-to-date on the matter:

Redacted, but it was basically along these lines:

My pleasure! Got you as well.

That is a better mindset, but he wouldn't be the first. In fact, that idea was best taken further by Buckminster Fuller when he said:

The fact that this article doesn't at all mention diet is disturbing, but so goes most of these when talking about how to deal with illness (including mental illnesses). I'd argue that meat can offer health benefits, but only if that animal is grass-fed (meaning grain/soy feed and growth hormone/antibiotic free):

I'm continually stunned by nature's micro/macro correlation.

That's what I meant. And I think it goes far beyond agriculture or even paintings on the wall. Their ecological and botanical knowledge (for healing and ceremonial use, like cultural cohesion or exploration of consciousness), as demonstrated by present-day indigenous tribes in places like the Amazon (from knowledge…

Hear, hear!

+1

Someone got into the LSD.

Yeah, they've got to pump the fucking brakes with these absolute assertions. It's one of the reasons why these discovers always come as such a shock(!) and the turn the reality that we've painted "upside down!"

Someone send two electrodes and a 9-volt to that courthouse, stat!

Yep. And just think of the decades of progress and understanding lost to this axiomatic, a priori bullshit. To your point in your second post, unshakable intellectual convictions can easily match the positions of a religious fundamentalist. Especially when highlighted with all too common virulent ridicule and…