To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. Timothy Leary More Quotes by Timothy Leary More Quotes From Timothy Leary Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration. Timothy Leary self-confidencehippiewar In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed. Timothy Leary peoplepastinteresting Man's best friend is his dogma. Timothy Leary dogmamen I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology. Timothy Leary psychologymushroomsyears I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time. Timothy Leary eightjobsthinking To use your head, you have to go out of your mind. Timothy Leary psychedelicusemind Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up. Timothy Leary psychedelicbootstunes We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past. Timothy Leary brainrealitypast Human beings have a right to change their consciousness, and it is unconscionable and absolutely wrong for any government or any person to stand in the way of someone choosing to change their consciousness. Timothy Leary consciousnessgovernmentway Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision. Timothy Leary visionminddrama Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space. Timothy Leary spacenumberspeople At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'. Timothy Leary eightdrugbrain In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. Timothy Leary 50th-birthdaydecisionphilosophy There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. Timothy Leary inspiringmemorieslong Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer. Timothy Leary computercommunicationprayer Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing. Timothy Leary pioneers The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message--to escape and come home. Timothy Leary ablednahome 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 peersvisionyears Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth. Timothy Leary plant-lifednaspace Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. Timothy Leary ritualexperimentsinternals
