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Altered States: Creativity Under the Influence
Altered States Creativity Under the Influence Author:James Hughes The act of creation is always associated with a sharp shift in mental functioning -- & sometimes this creative high can only be accessed by external means. This book identifies the heightened states of mind which give rise to art & looks at the accounts that artists have given of what happens when they are "under the influence." This book looks ... more »at the conditions & personality traits that make the artist, & the ways in which artistic production can be related to other areas of human experience. The creative high has affinities with the auras experienced by migraine sufferers, with the trances of primitive shamans, & with the visions of religious mystics -- &, of course, a rich variety of hallucinogenic drugs have also been embraced in the service of art. Illustrations.« less