In part one of Martin Scorsese’s documentary 'George Harrison: Living in the Material World,' Harrison discusses his experience with LSD, and basically had only good things to say about the drug, describing how he was basically totally in love with nothing in particular but the whole world when he took LSD, and how his eyes opened to mysticism through the use of the drug,
This quote is not exactly what he says in the movie, it comes from a November 87 interview, but it follows the same idea:
‘Up until LSD, I never realized that there was anything beyond this state of consciousness. But all the pressure was such that, like the man [Bob Dylan] said, 'There must be some way out of here.' I think for me it was definitely LSD. The first time I took it, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being, that there was a God and I could see Him in every blade of grass. It was like gaining hundreds of years of experience within twelve hours. It changed me and there was no way back to what I was before. It wasn't all good, because it left a lot of questions as well. And we still had to continue being fab, you know? And now with that added perspective, it wasn't easy.’
In an interview for the New York Times, Steve Jobs once said to reporter John Markoff that taking LSD was one of the two or three most important things he'd ever done, adding that he had found enduring inspiration in LSD, that ‘there were things about him that people who had not tried psychedelics — even people who knew him well, including his wife — could never understand’, and that Bill Gates would ‘be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once’.
How many creative people have taken LSD? According to many sources, beside the Beatles’ music and the iPhone, LSD could well have been more than an aid in the creation of the best music in the 20th century, and the list could be very long, The Doors, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Bob Dylan,…
Recent research has shown that the psychedelic experience is long lasting (may be a year), meaning that people had long-term personality changes, became more open, more curious, more intellectually engaged and more creative after using it.
I have never taken drugs, I am an educator and every year I teach about drugs, I teach what an educator should say to young people, the addictive and destructive aspect of drugs, which is also true and obviously what is expected from a science teacher. But when LSD (which is actually not an addictive drug) is endorsed by youth’s heroes, it’s becoming really hard!