on LSD, then it's sure not what it used to be.

but it was definitely an interesting experience. I kind of remember sparks coming off the typewriter keys as they struck the paper (pre-Selectric).

And this is something that has been going on fro decades - but I guess it is only now that Mainstream Media is willing to deal with it.

back in the '70s.

quite possibly. Probably creative to a fault.

Productive?

No way.

How else do you go from "Love Me Do" to "Sargent Peppers"?

or perhaps Revolution #9 (featuring #9 ad nauseum).

Both inspired by LSD.

"I am the Walrus" probably Lennon's best vocal track ever (listen to it again with an open mind if you don't believe me)

The other tune an utterly horrible song that their producer, Sir George Martin, tried desperately to keep off the "White Album".


Sargent Peppers was actually a critically acclaimed album that may be best described as an impactful cultural event.

while on Psilocybin mushroom. Way back when I first came home from the war I'd take 'shrooms and go to work from framing houses to operating dozers. It didn't seem to impair my abilities at all, in fact I did some of my best work then

A friend came back from texas with a car trunk full of cow shit that had psilocybin mushroom growing out of them and we had an extra shower that no one used so we took an old bakers rack and placed it in there and put the cow turds on it and when we wanted some 'shrooms we'd turn the water on hot until it ran cold and the next morning we'd have a ton of the best high there is. It was several months until they all washed down the drain. Many of awesome parties were to be had


Too old for that lifestyle now though

Jobs gained his view of the world in his early 20s. He went looking for the meaning of life as one might imagine a 1970s California kid would: LSD, meditation, and a journey through India."I came of age at a magical time," Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson.

"Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life," Jobs said. "LSD shows you that there's another side to the coin, and you can't remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important — creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could." Along with Zen meditation, Jobs thought that his experiments with LSD helped him better understand his mental states.

While we highly doubt that Apple endorses tripping on acid, the company does teach a similar process of Picasso-inspired simplification by way of abstraction. Maybe that's why, decades later, some people in Silicon Valley are still meditating and taking LSD.

Author of "The 4-Hour Workweek" and venture investor Tim Ferriss told CNN Money that many of the entrepreneurs he knows are down to trip."The billionaires I know, almost without exception, use hallucinogens on a regular basis," Ferriss said. "[They're] trying to be very disruptive and look at the problems in the world ... and ask completely new questions."http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-lsd-meditation-zen-quest-2015-1