"A completely different set of LSD sessions emerged when it became obvious that the drug experience could enhance creative potential in certain individuals. The drug became popular among artists as a source of inspiration and many hundreds of painters, sculptors, musicians, architects, and writers volunteered for LSD experiments. Somewhat later, scientists, philosophers and other highly creative individuals became favorite subjects for LSD sessions. This was based on the observation that the unusual states of consciousness induced by LSD can generate important insights, facilitate problem-solving and lead to valid intuitions or unexpected resyntheses of accumulated data."

In showing how creativity, made possible by LSD, can lead to scientific discoveries and help solve problems that are not psychological problems, again, we will return to Stanislav Grof and his book, LSD Psychotherapy. This is from pages 267-268:

"Many observations from psychedelic research indicate that LSD can also be of extraordinary value to various scientific disciplines that are traditionally considered domains of reason and logic. Two important aspects of the LSD effect seem to be of particular relevance in this context. First, the drug can mediate access to vast repositories of concrete and valid information in the collective unconscious and make them available to the experiment. According to my observations, the revealed knowledge can be very specific, accurate and detailed; the data obtained in this way can be related to many different fields. In our relatively limited LSD training program for scientists, relevant insights occurred in such diverse areas as cosmogenesis, the nature of space and time, sub-atomic physics, ethnology, animal psychology, history, philosophy, genetics, obseterics, psychosomatic medicine, psychology, psychotherapy and thanatology."

"The second aspect of the LSD effect that is of great relevance for the creative process is the facilitation of new and unexpected synthesis of data, resulting in unconventional problem-solving. It is a well known fact that many important ideas and solutions to problems did not originate in the context of logical reasoning, but in various unusual states of mind-in dreams, while falling asleep or awakening, at times of extreme physical and mental fatigue or during an illness with high fever. There are many famous examples of this. Thus, the chemist Friedrich August von Kekule arrived at the final solution of the chemical formula of benzene in a dream in which he saw the benzene ring in the form of a snake biting its tail. Nikola Tesla constructed the electric generator, an invention that revolutionized industry, after the complete design of it appeared to him in great detail in a vision. The design for the experiment leading to the Nobel prize-winning discovery of the chemical transmission of nerve impulses occurred to the physiologist Otto Loewi while he was asleep. Albert Einstein discovered the basic principles of his special theory of relativity in an unusual state of mind; according to his description, most of the insights came to him in the form of kinaesthetic sensations."

"We could mention many instances of a similar kind where a creative individual struggled unsuccessfully for a long time with a difficult problem using logic and reason, with the actual solution emerging unexpectedly from the unconscious in moments when his or her rationality was suspended. In everyday life events of this kind happen very rarely and in an elemental and unpredictable fashion. Psychedelic drugs seem to facilitate the incidence of such creative solutions to the point that they can be deliberately programmed. In an LSD state, the old conceptual frameworks break down, cultural cognitive barriers dissolve and the material can be seen and synthesized in a totally new way that was not possible within the old system of thinking. This mechanism can produce not only striking new solutions to various specific problems, but new paradigms that revolutionize whole scientific disciplines."

The LSD state not only doesn't make someone crazy, but can actually make possible the necessary conditions in order to have genuine creative thinking and action and find the elusive answers to problems. It can also lead to worthwhile scientific discoveries like those described in the last quote. Even Einstein's discoveries resulted from an unusual state of mind. You sure won't find that in any history or science books just like you won't find in any of the regular books any information about the LSD kind of experience being the origin of religions.