History is not lacking in examples of men who attained to the status of genius, as the result of the use of artificial mind stimulants in the form of alcohol and narcotics. Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while under the influence of liquor, "dreaming dreams that mortal never dared to dream before." James Whitcomb did Riley did his
best writing while under the influence of alcohol. Perhaps it was thus he saw "the ordered intermingling of the real and the dream , the mill above the river and the mist above the stream. 'For Auld Lang Syne, my dear, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for Auld Lang Syne."
But let it be remembered that many such men have destroyed themselves in the end. Nature has prepared her own potions with which men may safely stimulate their minds to tune into fine and rare thoughts which come from - no man knows where. Not satisfactory substitute for nature's stimulants has ever been found.
It is a fact well known to psychologists that there is a very close relationship between sex desires and spiritual urges- a fact which accounts for the peculiar behavior of people, who participate in the orgies known as religious "revivals," common among the primitive types.
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions. People are influenced in their actions, not by reason so much as by "feelings." The creative faculty of the mind is set into action entirely by emotions, and not by cold reason. The most powerful of all human emotions is that of sex. There are other mind stimulants , some of which have been listed, but no one of them, nor all of hem combined, can equal the driving power of sex.
A mind stimulant is any influence which will either temporarily, or permanently, increase the intensity of thought. The ten major stimulants described are those most commonly resorted to. Through these sources one may commune with Infinite Intelligence, or enter, at will, the storehouse of the subconscious mind, either one's own, or that of another person, a procedure which is all there is of genius.
From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
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