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- From: dolphin@ziggys.cts.com (Rex Kahler) 619/262-6384
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Old Book
- Message-ID: <uyFNec14w165w@ziggys.cts.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 03:48:05 PST
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- (from "The Collective Spirit" by Viggo Cavling, 1926)
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- "The fact that people can become the slaves of stimulants
- which intensify, though but temporarily, their sense of
- creative activity, is really due to the peculiar satisfaction we
- experience in feeling the creative power at work within us.
- And if we cannot get it to work in any other way, we have
- recourse to alcohol, opium or hashish. The opium-smoker
- says good-bye to the world of automatism and goes off on a
- grand tour through the golden realms of fantasy, the wonder-
- land of the creative power.
- The word intoxication is used with reference to to drugs,
- such as opium or morphia; but it applies also to the ecstasy
- of artistic creation. ... The opium smoker's trance and
- the ecstasy of the artist at his work are but a sleeping and a
- waking form of the same thing. In sleep the result will be
- visions, phantoms, fantsy; waking, it gives us art, invention,
- new ideas, a moral exhultaion."
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- back beneath the waves
- D o l p h i n R e x
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