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
Drop out of the public schools. The public schools cannot be compromised with.
Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.
We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
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?
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.
The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.
If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides telescopes are unnatural.
Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D.
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
When you get the message, hang up the phone.
I declare that The Beatles are mutants.