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From 1954 until 1962 -- four years before LSD was declared illegal -  - Janiger was one of the first researchers to probe the drug's  potential for enhancing intellect and creativity. He incorporated  the drug into his therapy and handed it out to an estimated 1,000  volunteers including such luminaries as novelists Anais Nin and
Aldous Huxley, actors Cary Grant and Jack Nicholson, and  conductor/composer Andre Previn .
 
" I felt the impossibility to tell the secret of life because the secret of life was metamorphosis, transmutation, and it happened too quickly, too subtly."- Anais Nin

After taking LSD in Oscar Janiger's office, the writer Anais Nin developed  her own theory about the drug's effect on the creative impulse. She  later incorporated her rough notes, which Janiger has saved in his  plenary files, into an essay included in The Diary of Anais Nin. "I   could find correlations [to the LSD imagery] all through my writing,"  she wrote, "find the sources of the images in past dreams, in reading,  in memories of travel, in actual experience, such as the one I had  once in Paris when I was so exalted by life that I felt I was not  touching the ground, I felt I was sliding a few inches away from the  sidewalk. Therefore, I felt, the chemical did not reveal an unknown  world. What it did was to shut out the quotidian world as an  interference and leave you alone with your dreams and fantasies and  memories. In this way it made it easier to gain access to the  subconscious life."         

James Coburn took 200 micrograms of LSD on December 10,1959 - his first trip. In his paperwork, he gave his reason for volunteering: "to gauge present consciousness (where I am to where I can possibly go)." Now 69 and still acting, Coburn looks back fondly on his session with Oscar Janiger. "It was phenomenal," he says. "I  loved it. LSD really woke me up to seeing the world with a depth of  objectivity. Even though it was a subjective experience, it opened  your mind to seeing things in new ways, in a new depth." Coburn also credits his LSD session with helping him occupationally. "One of the great things about LSD is that it does stimulate your imagination. And it frees you from fears of certain kinds."


"[The doctor] had suggested that I listen to some music while the  drug was still effective. I am a composer and pianist, and I have  never before or since been so strongly affected by music. I  listened to recordings of some Brahms, Mozart and Walton, and  was moved to tears almost immediately . . . I then played the  piano for approximately 40 minutes. I felt that I played  extremely well and possibly with more musical insight than before. I played among other things a Chopin Fantasia which I had not looked at since my student days, and remembered it  perfectly and without flaws. A few days after the experiment I  again attempted to play this piece and found that I had retained  it completely. I would sometime be interested in repeating the experiment and recording some improvisations while under the influence of the pills."
-Andre Previn

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