The story of artist Alison Silva puts a new slant on the old question of the relationship between art and madness and how much you are willing to risk to maintain your creativity. As this CBS Evening News brief video reveals, she has a difficult choice to make.
I’m wondering whether for the rest of us there’s another way to achieve this kind of result—perhaps using hypnosis. Aldous Huxley experimented with LSD in the early days, when it was still legal for therapeutic uses, and had some fascinating results, but of course that has drawbacks as well.
