Another interesting week of philosophical thinking

Hughes:
You know this reading reminds me of a simple theory that I brought up in class last thursday in class about whose reality we are really living. What is reality and whose consciousness are we really living. What is reality and who sets the standards of what we percieve as reality. The chapter outlines different kinds of mind altering stimulants that people use to induce creativity. They tell you not to use drugs because its bad for you without telling you the real concrete reasoning for it. It might seem as if I am advocating for the junkies but I don't even use drugs but it just draws my attention as to why it is illegal to use some of these stimulants when they can be inducive to a creative and artistic work environment. Is there a potential level of thinking that can be reached that the status quo don't want the average man to reach. I don't know but seeing that some of our greatest artist and thinkers indulged in drug usage to gain a better perspective on another form of consciousnes it makes me suspicious that in theory these hallucinogens might have something to them.

Amanita Muscaria and Santa Clause
This article is a litlle out there for me. The whole Santa Clause and agaric mushrooms is a bit made up to me. Now I don't know what the ties of mushrooms is to santa it might have some truth to it. Maybe someone was high on shrooms when they thought about connecting Sanata and Christmas together. When you come to think about it Christmas and Santa are pawns for capitalism From September to december.

Walsh:
It seems that the shamans were up to something with the whole drug induced consciousness. Could it be that under the influence we have an untapped potential for artistic and intellectual creativity that as I mentioned on the other article that some people don't want us to discover. The shamans see the world from another point of view that is just to some of us ludicrous but its about opening your mind to new and potential ideas.They seemed to just love drugs so much.