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...living room is filled with icons and bric-a-brac in honor of Christ's mother. Dionisia wanted Manny to be a priest. Prayer reigns in his gym. "After each workout," says Giongco, "he requests a moment of silence where he prays, and then everything goes back to normal...
...since 13 people were gunned down on the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood. The impact of the killings still reverberates from the base in the heart of Killeen, Texas. Now, the start of a glorious fall weekend promises this central Texan town a hint of normalcy, but true normal - weekend football, shopping, yard work and worship - will take longer to return, especially to the community's Muslims...
...until LSD, I never realized that there was anything beyond this normal working state of consciousness,” George Harrison famously said in 1987. “But all the pressure was such that, as 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, I 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 glass. It was like gaining...
...drugs induce, since their naturally less inhibited state is more conducive to artistic production. “Genetic vulnerability factors... may predispose certain individuals to experience altered mental states that provide access to—and interest in—associational material typically filtered out of conscious awareness during normal waking states,” Carson explained. “They are smoking because of that openness,” Simonton reiterates, “not open because they’re smoking...
Hallucinogens, on the other hand, have been proven to play a more pivotal role in dictating the direction of an artist’s work. For example, LSD was commonly given to interested test subjects to gauge the drug’s effects and was found to disinhibit normal sensory perceptions, launching the artist into a potentially productive psychedelic experience. These more psychoactive drugs can actually become a type of muse that influence the content of the art, the most famous example of these acid trips being “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds...