At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos. Timothy Leary More Quotes by Timothy Leary More Quotes From Timothy Leary 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. Timothy Leary technique skins names I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me. Timothy Leary follow-me followers kind I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. Timothy Leary mutants race laughing We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Timothy Leary learning humorous education The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip. Timothy Leary pilots information radio The universe is an intelligence test. Timothy Leary universe tests Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. Timothy Leary gardening soul time My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. Timothy Leary hippie games people My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in. Timothy Leary jobs mean school The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution. Timothy Leary nervous psychedelic revolution Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful. Timothy Leary responsibility beautiful life The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate. Timothy Leary stars pride personality Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports. Timothy Leary team sports thinking Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long. Timothy Leary village-life space moon After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty. Timothy Leary rest-of-your-life wonder beauty 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 Timothy Leary eye religious spiritual 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? Timothy Leary digital definitions spiritual By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. Timothy Leary dropping-out games mean Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity. Timothy Leary abandon lsd dropping-out LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it. Timothy Leary taken funny people
