My Heroes – Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary along with Ken Kesey were the founding fathers of the Hippy Movement of the 1960s. He was a professor at Harvard University. He started his research with LSD (legal at the time) among prison inmates and alcoholics. Later he would experiment on himself, friends and volunteer students.
In his later years he became very interested in space exploration and life extention. He became very much involved in the internet and virtual reality.
Hello you acid head hippy! I hear it is not possible to get pure LSD like in the old days now (those were the days 😀 )
I haven’t done any LSD since 1995.
You got any? 😈
Two things ruined when doing acid, sex and eating. One thing I do know is that no matter how long ago you last did it, you always remember what it was like. My only complaint besides the sex and eating is that it lasted way tooooooo long. I think I last had some in 1986. I wouldn’t do it now though since I’m not very smart and could possibly burn those few remaining brain cells I have left 😉
Awesome John………I myself have often been called a new-age hippie…. 😉 !
off topic question, anyone ever been to Buffalo?
Howdy, John. Interesting.
:groovy: 😉 8)
I’m a big fan of his nine circuits of human consciousness model and the later work that Robert Anton Wilson did on the same thing that was based on his correspondence with Leary and his personal experiences and ideas.
Leary put it all on the line at a time when so many people needed a gentle nudge to do what they knew was right in their hearts. I know many people have called him a narc and a sellout over the years. I don’t know much about the truth of such things, but I know the world is a better place because of him and many of the choices that he made.
If only more people would venture to know more about their brains and see beyond the cultural programming… I’m not talking specifically about drugs, but about really digging into themselves and putting the pieces together for themselves.
Books, quiet introspection, thoughtful conversations, and so many other things are part of that journey to empowerment. Leary used some drugs as a tools along his chosen path, and they served him well. But many people overlook the fact that much of what made him such a powerful thinker was his willingness to use all the tools at his disposal and to never get complacent in his findings.
Mr Leary is the guy with begging bowl.
Quick confession. Ive got a vile of pure LSD. Its value has acsended along with its maker. Owsley Stanley RIP.
He wrote the “Psychodelic Experience” based on the “Tibetian Book of the Dead” – fascinating ethnic study on metaphysics. So far, the only reason I believe why he endorsed the consumption of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide was because he saw it as a means for shortening the amount of time I person would need to alter his state of consciousness. As he stated in his book, a Tibetian Buddhist monk required yeas of yoga practice, fasting and meditation to be able to alter his state of consciousness, and Leary saw a short-cut in LSD.
Leary stated he was never in favour of mass drug consumption or abuse – he just wanted people to experience an altered state of consciousness. It was much too late to do anything about it, once his book became a part of mass media. The only thing left was to make LSD illegal, and throw the baby out with the bathwater.
By the way, LSD was first manufactured as drug for regulating blood pressure by a Swiss chemist. Then a German pharmacy bought the formula to use as a drug for treating schizophrenia. It wasn’t until the CIA started experimenting with it as a potential weapon, were the facts about it’s abuse made apparent.
And today LSD is LEGAL in Switzerland again, but only by prescription. They are experimenting with it very small dosis it to treat schizophrenia, autism, and extreme cases of bipolarism and OCD again.