How Psychedelics Helped Shape Modern Technology
Share: This article by Derek Beres was originally published on Psychedelic Spotlight, and appears here with permission. Oscar Janiger dosed over 950 people with LSD in his Los Angeles home in the nineteen-fifties. The psychiatrist was interested in the drug’s impact on creativity. He meticulously detailed every participant’s experience. At the end of this stunning experiment, he concluded that LSD didn’t make you more creative, but it could influence people with an already creative mind. As with Stanislov Grof famously calling psychedelics “non-specific amplifiers,” Janiger recog...