Tapping Into Your Creativity With Microdosing

Fantastic Fungi
2 min readJan 11, 2021

Microdosing is a practice of consuming small amounts of magic mushrooms to stimulate creativity . From Silicon Valley leaders to visionary artists, magic mushrooms have played a key role in the creative process of many people. After reading this article, you may want to tap into the magical power of mushrooms! Are you tapping into your creativity with microdosing?

The anthropologist and writer Carlos Castaneda is known to have microdosed. Castaneda wrote about psychedelics and culture. Cartoonist Robert Crumb speaks publicly about his experiences with LSD, including how psilocybin mushrooms helped him find his recognizable 1940s aesthetic style. Francis Crick, who famously participated in the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, says that he was on LSD when the structure occurred to him. The group Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Bill Wilson, who was a vocal advocate for the power of LSD to help combat alcoholism. Yayoi Kusama, famed artist and creator of the infinity rooms, is known to have been friends with many LSD-takers in the 60s.

Finally, Steve Jobs was one of many technologists who is said to have taken psychedelics, once his LSD trip as one of the “two or three most important” experiences of his life. Click here to read the full article.

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