Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Learywas an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert, was fired from Harvard University on May 27, 1963 for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate student. Leary was planning to leave Harvard when his teaching contract expired...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth22 October 1920
CitySpringfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Timothy Leary quotes about
Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.
Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.
Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.
The word "religion" beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates "to bind" from the Latin--"re" means back and "ligare" means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.
There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.
Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.
We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.
Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!
Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?
The PC is the LSD of the '90s.
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.