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迷幻考验：毒品与科幻小说（2017）
Acid test: on drugs and science fiction (2017)
导读
这篇随笔从“药物与科幻”切入，借海因莱因等人的言论追问：迷幻剂究竟能否带来真正的创造力与洞见。对写作者来说，它值得一读，因为它提醒我们警惕“药物式灵感”的幻觉，并思考洞见、积累与表达之间的关系。
可以直接用的写作要点
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迷幻体验中的“顿悟”往往在药效消退后失效，写作要把灵感落到可验证、可表达的结构里。
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药物更可能放大而非替代已有的积累：先学会做有趣的事，才谈得上让外力产生可见回报。
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引用名人的绝对化断言时要谨慎，海因莱因对 LSD 的否定与音乐、科学界的反例并不一致。
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描写迷幻或乌托邦体验时保留怀疑和具体例证，比单纯赞美“世界大同”的幻想更有说服力。
HN 评论精选
迷幻体验的“顿悟”下药后常失效，乌托邦式的社会幻想也不切实际。
关于缺氧的那段引文说，一两分钟内精神能力会大增，但“辉煌的领悟和重大发现”在药劲过去后总会失灵。我认为这也能解释人们在 LSD 等迷幻剂上产生的许多惊人“领悟”。我试过约十种天然和合成迷幻剂，不否认它们很美、能改变我们对自己和世界的看法，但“如果每个人都试试，就不会有战争、可以废除政府、世界大同”这类乌托邦想法是一厢情愿，60 年代末 70 年代初大多数公社项目就是证明。
Nursie查看英文原文
On anoxia - > In just a minute or two, you’ll discover a vast increase in your mental abilities—a sureness of thought, a breadth of understanding, and a rapidity and sureness of reasoning you never achieved before…Of course your brilliant realizations and mighty discoveries somehow seem to misfire when you come down off that jag I believe this covers quite a lot of the amazing 'realisations' people have whilst on psychedelics like LSD, as well. And I'm not speaking from ignorance here, but as one who has tried around 10 different natural and synthetic psychedelics. They are beautiful, I'm not going to dispute that they can change the way we think of ourselves and the world around us. But... The utopianist ideas of "If everyone just tried this, there would be no war, we could get rid of government and all look after each other, and the world would be as one!" are wishful thinking. As illustrated by the vast majority of the communal living projects started in the late 60s and early 70s.
海因莱因对 LSD 的否定过于绝对，音乐和科学界都有反例。
海因莱因说：“我不知道有任何艺术作品、文章、故事、发现或其他有价值的东西是因 LSD 而产生的。当嗑药者在任何领域超过普通人时，我才会注意。”海因莱因写过一些不错的小说，但我总遇到他引语中相当封闭、强烈的观点。许多伟大音乐人据知受 LSD 启发创作，比如披头士、柯川、沙滩男孩；赫胥黎一些作品受其影响，生物化学家 Kary Mullis 也归功于它帮助开发了 DNA 测序的 PCR 方法。
n4r9查看英文原文
Heinlein: > I know of no work of art, essay, story, discovery, or anything else of value created as a result of LSD. When the acid-droppers start outdistancing the squares in any field, I’ll sit up and take notice. Heinlein wrote some decent novels but I keep coming across pretty closed-minded, strong opinions in quotations of his. Many great musicians were known to have had LSD inspire their creations. The Beatles, Coltrane, the Beach Boys to name a few. Some of Huxley's work was influenced by it, and the biochemist Kary Mullis credits it with helping him develop the PCR method for DNA sequencing.
药物不替代积累，深刻洞见属于本来就会思考的人。
我同意这句话：“药物只有在人们已经付出艰苦努力、学会如何制作和做有趣的事情之后，才会以可见的方式回报。”我认识很多大量使用迷幻剂的人，说实话大多数什么也没学到；少数有深刻或有趣洞见的人，本来就是深度思考者。
empath75查看英文原文
> drugs pay off in visible ways only for people who have already put in the hard work of figuring out how to make and do interesting things. I agree with this. I’ve known a lot of people who have done a lot of psychedelics and most of them learned absolutely nothing from it if I’m being honest, and the few who had what I’d consider to be profound or interesting insights from it were deep thinkers anyway.
迷幻剂可作疗愈和创作工具，但需要教育引导。
LSD 和氯胺酮对我而言是极具疗愈性的体验，突破了深层创伤，帮我应对此前让生活失能的 PTSD。它们也极大有益于我的诗歌和音乐创作。我认为它们是需要教育才能使用的伟大工具，可惜这种教育多少被视为禁忌知识。
lostgame查看英文原文
LSD and Ketamine were incredibly healing experiences for me that seriously broke through a lot of deep-seated trauma and helped me deal with PTSD that was debilitating my life beforehand. They’ve also been incredibly great experiences for benefiting my poetry and musical compositions. I believe they are great tools that require education to use. It’s a shame that education is more or less forbidden knowledge.
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