by Gurrier Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:05 am
Pyro wrote:Gurrier wrote:I'm buggered if I know how musicians and other artists create under the influence? I mean I realise the whole prying open the third eye thing for a bit of conscience streaming but I've tried writing on all manner or substance (nothing too hard) and it mostly just comes out as airy fairy shite. I write much better when I'm healthy, with my wits about me and sternly focused. I find a clear mind helps to clear a path to well ideas up from inside. I got to admit a few tipples doesn't exactly hurt the process but I never truly understood the 'drugs writing the songs' thing that seems to go on with alot of musicians. Musicians write music as far as I'm concerned
I think people have various potential. Some of it is discovered during the course of life by "natural" means. And some of it
can be unlocked by drugs. Or meditation, or hypnosis. But - there´s the but - most people who want "out of the world" experience do drugs, as it´s the fastest and it looks to be the simplest way. It works for some of them, it doesn´t for others - that´s the way things go I guess
Good point, meditation or concentration of oneself from oneself for that matter is like the winding dirtroad route. Arduous, but you're granted a strength through resistance. Where as in a way drugs can do the same thing but you're being hurtled along on the superhighway. You get there a whole lot faster but your experience hasn't been dubbed with the same sinew as if you slogged it out for the long run.
My opinion with drugs. Well with anything really is you don't get something for nothing. To be granted knowledge or an experience one has to give something of themselves away. That's just the natural cycle of energy
[quote="Pyro"][quote="Gurrier"]I'm buggered if I know how musicians and other artists create under the influence? I mean I realise the whole prying open the third eye thing for a bit of conscience streaming but I've tried writing on all manner or substance (nothing too hard) and it mostly just comes out as airy fairy shite. I write much better when I'm healthy, with my wits about me and sternly focused. I find a clear mind helps to clear a path to well ideas up from inside. I got to admit a few tipples doesn't exactly hurt the process but I never truly understood the 'drugs writing the songs' thing that seems to go on with alot of musicians. Musicians write music as far as I'm concerned[/quote]
I think people have various potential. Some of it is discovered during the course of life by "natural" means. And some of it [i]can[/i] be unlocked by drugs. Or meditation, or hypnosis. But - there´s the but - most people who want "out of the world" experience do drugs, as it´s the fastest and it looks to be the simplest way. It works for some of them, it doesn´t for others - that´s the way things go I guess :-)[/quote]
Good point, meditation or concentration of oneself from oneself for that matter is like the winding dirtroad route. Arduous, but you're granted a strength through resistance. Where as in a way drugs can do the same thing but you're being hurtled along on the superhighway. You get there a whole lot faster but your experience hasn't been dubbed with the same sinew as if you slogged it out for the long run.
My opinion with drugs. Well with anything really is you don't get something for nothing. To be granted knowledge or an experience one has to give something of themselves away. That's just the natural cycle of energy
