blog 9

When I first started to read through the chapters I immediately related it to what we learned about Fly Agaric. When you think about it the Fly Agaric seemed to be related creativity. A lot of the websites I visited had a lot of ornaments and creative things to that were related to the Fly Agaric. Then I really began to rack my brain to see what I could come up with that could possibly be related to the mushroom. I instantly thought about super Mario and the mushrooms in the game that appeared similar to the Fly agaric. Then I thought thing like Christmas and colors which are coincidentally red and white. I also found it interesting on how many different ways there are you can intake the drug. I mean that takes creativity just to think of them alone. It ranged from smoking it to drinking the urine of someone that had ingested it. I could see why some musicians and artists kind of resort to drugs because they seem to open the mind to another world to create things. I guess that some people would need this because if they didn’t use them their work would seem to be very plain or even boring. I then could relate this to Castaneda’s book and how that seemed to be very creative. Even though some of his stories seemed to be outlandish, but I guess they could be true after the reading. When it come down after all the reading and research we done to this point creativity goes hand in hand with altered states.