Does anyone know some connections between Hesse and hallucinogens, such as lsd or magic mushrooms?

Just wondering, because I think that magical theatre (or whatever it is in english) has something very similar to lsd-trip.. They also smoked some cigarettes (joints?) to boost that trip?

So, have you heard about Hesses own playing in magical theatre? Or connections to Leary and other drugprophets?

i too question whether or not Hesse used hallucinagins. I've read maybe 6 of his novels + many autobiographical essays, and I've always wondered if he from time to time experimented with these type of things. Firstly, he clearly mentions in Steppenwolf that he took magic potions that brought him into a different world of understanding and Two, I've rarely met anyone who is half as enlightened as Hesse was who didn't smoke a joint from time to time. His understanding of his nature in relation to the rest of the world is to vivid. His descriptions of the subtle beauty in life too honest and detailed. Although he had austere tendencies, I'm sure while he was travelling the world, he dabbed in a few illegal activities (at least illegal where I live here in the state)

Ed

Well. i want to tell everyone here that it doesn't take a joint or anything else to come up with this type of stories , or to be a sucessfull writer o poet or philoshopher .At some point of our lives i think 99% of people do one or the other .But these people so enlightened do not need this i repeat .Their minds are so connected with their spirits in such a way that no human flesh high could ever take them to those limits .you are born like that and whether you experiment with drugs or not won't change a thing , it might boost some interesting and crazy ideas though.Hesse liked a glass of wine ocassionally
but that also was not the fuel that he used to create those pieces of delightfull prose.

I firmly believe Hesse's access to the divine was just his great natural gift as it has been for so many others. Thanks, Jan