Essentially, marijuana can extend the range of our free associative capacities. It increases the novel ways in which we find connections between ideas, and it also extends the range of ideas that we might somehow relate to one another. While not surprising, it does offer a scientific validation for what so many artists, philosophers and scientists have been saying for ages, that marijuana is a cognitive catalyst that can trigger heightened free-associative creativity, increased pattern recognition, and insight. Cannabis is an assassin of referentiality inducing a BUTTERFLY EFFECT in THOUGHT,says Darwin's Pharmacy author Rich Doyle. This effect de-conditions our thinking leading to what RealitySandwich.com described as the really big connectivity ideas arrived at wholly outside the linear steps of argument. These are the gestalt perceiving, asterism forming aha's! that connect the dots and light up the sky with a new archetypal pattern. You can see the hyper-priming, free-associative effect at play when Doyle adds that cannabis induces a parataxis wherein sentences resonate together and summon coherence in the bardos between one statement and other, rather than through explicit semantics. The words leap to mind, one after another, of themselves without having to be searched for, adds anthropologist Henry Munn. It's a phenomenon similar to the automatic dictation of the surrealists except that here the flow of consciousness tends to be coherent, a rational enunciation of meanings. - The Huffington Post
