One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized. Timothy Leary More Quotes by Timothy Leary More Quotes From Timothy Leary We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Timothy Leary grandparent brain giving Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. Timothy Leary sin garden eden Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life. Timothy Leary vision hippie profound I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life. Timothy Leary drug intelligent use Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going. Timothy Leary where-we-come enormous shows Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props. Timothy Leary expression religious wise And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit. Timothy Leary information philosophy reality Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization. Timothy Leary christian civilization order Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me. Timothy Leary certain young people My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form. Timothy Leary turkeys rome reading Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality. Timothy Leary important reality The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct. Timothy Leary robots brain reality People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings. Timothy Leary sunday teaching school When you get the message, hang up the phone. Timothy Leary psychedelic phones messages If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist. Timothy Leary hives want moving Turn on, Tune in, Drop out. Timothy Leary cannabis turns tunes They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet. Timothy Leary marijuana vegetables numbers 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. Timothy Leary drug eye religious Grow within the flow. Timothy Leary growth grows flow Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky. Timothy Leary christian sky giving