Leary, Timothy

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Your Brain Is God
Timothy Leary
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This collection of essays, written by the poster boy of 1960s counterculture, describes the psychological journey Timothy Leary made in the years following his dismissal from Harvard, as his psychedelic research moved from the scientific to the religious arena. He discusses the nature of religious experience and eight crafts of God, including God as hedonic artist. Leary also examines the Tibetan, Buddhist, and Taoist experiences. In the final chapters, he explores man as god and LSD as sacrament.

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This book isn't what I thought it would be?.......2006-11-03

I bought this book a while ago so I'm not sure what my initial hopes were, but they were dashed immediately (I could tell this book wasn't for me by the start of the 2nd chapter).

Essentially my main problem was that the author assumes you are a LSD user or that you are wishing to dabble in LSD. Because the point of this book is based upon this assumption.

Basically he talks briefly about the reason for setting up his own *religion* and then goes off and talks about the best environment for doing drugs like LSD to reach a state of awareness?

I don't want to do LSD, I wanted to read a book about opening your mind (I knew that Timothy Leary was a LSD icon but by the title of his book I assumed that there would be some substance to the content). Reading the book was a bit pointless for me, it seems strange that to make this realisation of our true oneness and to try to re-connect with our infinite consciousness we would require the help of a CIA funded drug - this type of thinking is beyond me?

I can't stand how certain people from the 60's seem to think they are some kind of revolutionary icon by taking LSD and pronouncing how good and evolutionary the drug is and how it will open peoples minds to the illusion of the matrix (life is but a mere hologram our brains interpret).

Just remember that the CIA (Central Intelligent Agency) were importing and testing the effects of LSD at the start of the 50's with the intent on releasing it as a mass produced product on the youth of America! So no you are not revolutionary, you were just a guinea pig for the CIA, and they suckered you good.

Besides this ignorance from the author of the true sources behind the LSD drug and its importation into America the book is ok - its readable for a while. Not really a book for me I guess.

My main gripe is the pompous ignorant attitude towards LSD and the way the author does nothing but talk about the best environment to take the drug. This book took me a couple of hours to read and did nothing for me.

If you want an eye opening book then read "...and the truth shall set you free" - by David Icke (it is his most accessible book for newbies to his work).

I'd advise people who do not take drugs to stay away from this book as it wont effect your life at all, and for those who do take drugs, you shouldn't need a book (even of this small size) to tell you how best to take drugs and the environment you do it in, this should be common knowledge that if you take drugs at a fair ground then chances are you are going to have a bad trip and if you take drugs in the tranquility of nature in a field then you are probably going to have a better experience and more spiritual time.

For me the book was rubbish.

Acid flash back in the pan..........2006-06-11

...the brain pan, that is. Tee hee. (Giggling is a form of deep wisdom and ecstatic worship.)

As you well know, your brain is the pan of God. Here are the facts, folks:

LSD sends the entire skin of its user all the way to the interior, so that a very dense Chakra can form--that at least is the traditional theory of hallucinogenics. We do this inner-skin formation in order to be similar to me at my highest, which will make you understand an overridingly important lesson, namely that these are, in fact, the kind of hallucinogenics that can make some arrangement for what one might consider a precise gallon of jade, thereby causing us to spend our lives in trying to achieve at least that much wisdom.

Yogis have performed the proper lifelong experiments to help you achieve this wisdom with or without hallucinogenic drugs. Timothy was such a yogi and has left a testament to show you how your kundalini energies do NOT have a choice in this matter: You will definitely need the drugs to get there. My friend and I once compared the LSD experience to the nuclear bomb, because it is so mind-blowing. Tee hee. Don't worry: The medical authorities can always treat you after you have been analyzed uncomprehensively and compared as far as possible to a merry form of more massive murders. LSD is something to regard with great respect, because it is the on-ramp to the Road of the Gods, and as such, it has value. It is, as one yogi elegantly put it, the red-eye flight into the night of light, which is nothing more than the Godhead of your own head. Tee hee.

Therefore, I cannot necessarily advise against this "safer" procedure. But, unlike some guidance-givers, I do not protect myself with the advantages derived from modern medicine, even though you might think me negligent for not doing so. If you feel you absolutely must employ them in order to feel that you are reaching your maximum comfort potential, just remember that these experimental doctrines are NOT the tool of reality, for reality does not exist. Very well, then, I recommend this training to the respectful re-searcher as a special tool. And listen, young re-searchers: You can occupy yourselves with these fascinating doctrines, which are currently incorrect. Other goals will hide the dense theories of science in order to show that the road you have entered leads to a meeting with the coefficient of their eyes. In light of this, I have a closely affectionate quotation for you from the great Leadbeater: "We must be aware that we are divided into mortal errors that want to subsume us." At a glance we will see that LSD gives us, as far as possible, enough concrete material for the great Leadbeater to use. And if you are as attentive as Leadbeater, you will receive an image that looks like the cells inside your own godlike brain and see the very atoms at their limits, dancing merrily through the synapses without interruption. It is at this point that you immediately say to them that you see a god, and the god is you. With that, you make it possible for the god in your mouth to perform maintenance on you as he learns just how much his subjects are unable to carry out any kind of physical peace. The feeling of volume will be included inside you, equal to one incredibly felt experience--an experience you will take with you into infinity. That happens to be a very beautiful thought. So, as a generous gesture, I would like to conclude this review with an equally beautiful quotation by the great Aleister Crowley, but I don't remember it and it doesn't matter anyway.

Dissapointed And Offended!.......2006-05-25

Timothy Leary was and remains a very controversial icon of the counterculture movement. Though his research involved the use of widely stigmatized psychedelic substances, his legacy marked the progressive movement towards realizing the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. I genuinely admire his philisophical inquiries and beliefs however was greatly disapointed with this book. I FEEL AS THOUGH THIS BOOK WHOLLY MISREPRESENTS TIMOTHY LEARY AND IN FACT CONDESCENDS HIS WORK. THE BOOK IS LITTERED WITH GRAMMATICAL ERRORS, PUNCTUATION ERRORS, MANY SPELLING ERRORS, AND FRANKLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE JARGON. I MUST SAY THAT I WAS EXTREMELY DISSATISIFED WITH THIS PURCHASE TO THE EXTENT THAT I CONTACTED RONIN PUBLISHING, INC. OVER IN OAKLAND CALIFORNIA BY PHONE AND REQUESTED THE NAME OF WITH WHOM I WAS SPEAKING. When the voice on the line asked what I wanted I replied that I had purchsed "Your Brain is God" and that I wished to make a complaint because of how poorly edited the book was. THE REPLY WAS DISTINCTLY, "Go Shove Yourself Up Your ***!" and I was hung up on. I was extremely offended and do not consider Ronin an quality publisher. Nor do I recommend this book.

What Your Brain Is and What Your Brain Ain't.......2006-03-12

The title of this book is rather misleading. I do not feel that the brain is God as much as it is an inlet as well as an outlet to all that there is in God. Just like a radio cannot play music without a transmitter a brain cannot think without the Mind. The brain and the Mind are not the same things. If the brain could think, it would keep on thinking after death, but the brain is merely an instrument the Mind uses.

The use of psychedelics can give one a glimpse into the Higher realms of consciousness. They can give one a peek to the depths of the soul but they cannot ultimately do the spiritual work that is necessary in evolving those glimpses and those peeks into full blown experiences. Alan Watts called pyschedelic drugs a microscope that one uses to see things that one hasn't seen before, but after one uses the microscope then he/she needs to work on what was seen and put away the instrument that allowed one to see them in the first place. This is a very important metaphor and should not be dismissed casually.

I believe that EVERYTHING can be used for a better life but we must be open to the "better" in the first place. There is NO MAGIC BULLET that will do this. There is no drug, no experience, no physical situation or circumstance that will ultimately tie up all loose ends and make everything wonderful and beautiful only the consciousness and the awareness of the individual can decide that.

I love Mr. Leary. I miss him. I'm sorry that his physical presence is no longer here. He was truly an individual and the world needs more people who not only stand on the edge, but sometimes go over the edge in order to prove that it's not the unknown we're to be afraid of, but in fact, it's the known.

Mr. Leary's The Politics of Ecstasy is a much better book. Even if you don't agree that psychedelics can give you a glimpse into a brighter, more promising life, Leary's enthusiam and joy for the subject will keep you greatly entertained.

May you prosper abundantly on your Spiritual quest for Truth and enlightenment.

Philosophy through confrontation with oneself..........2005-01-01

As substance induced psychedelia became almost a sweeping religion in the 60s certain great minds emerged that tried to conceptualise the goings on of that era and form them into new philosophies made of an amalgam of Eastern teachings, ancient western cosmotheories and modern realisations.

Among the many in that effort was T.Leary. Most of his books are known to the lay public as nothing more than acid-promotion but the truth is that they are excellent philosophical endeavours of the trippiest kind.

"Your brain is god" is a primary example of that. Allthough a mere 100 pages it summarises emphatically the vision those 60s luminaries had for ourselves. To realise that we are, or can be, gods. A much misunderstood concept to be sure, but one that has enormous merit in it not in an anthropocentric sense but more from a "know thyself" point of view.

Knowing thyself is of course no simple matter (if it were we wouldnt be on the verge of self-extinction). There have been many approaches and many philosophies over the eons that have tried to accomplish just that with various degrees of success. Leary came to that "field" through the confrontation with one's one brain that certain substances can provoke. His realisations might not sound like new discoveries to those few that are well philosophy-broken but his style and his way of formulating his beliefs are almost inimitable.

There's more to be taken from this book of Leary's than from many other bulky tomes that well known philosophers have written. Because, make no mistake here, he was unquestionably a philosopher and a darn good one. Leary has a way of condensing things in a modern 20th century type of way that will intrigue even the more focus-challenged out there.

My favorite quote from this book, is one that you can write a whole new book about in itself:
"...the smarter you become the smarter your world becomes".

A great "lil" book for those that are never content with the number of doors opened in their minds.

One objection that some might have is the later chapters of the book when Leary is basically giving out methodology on the use of acid. This is the time he comes from and this is the path he used. This though, does in no way mean that he promotes it as an absolute path. Life isnt one street. It would anyway be totally hypocritical of him to omit those chapters when he was known as the acid-guru. You should simply concentrate on taking out what's valuable for you, whatever that might be. And there's a lot of that here.

O'Leary Series: Microsoft Office 2003 Volume I w/ Student Data File CD (The O'Leary Series)

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Tim and Linda O’Leary are the well-known husband and wife author team behind Microsoft Office 2003 Applications . Their goal is to give students a basic understanding of computing concepts and to build the skills necessary to ensure that information technology is an advantage in whatever career they choose in life. The O’Leary Office XP and Office 2003 texts are crafted to be the true step-by-step way for students to develop Microsoft Office application skills. The text design emphasizes step-by-step instructions with full screen captures that illustrate the results of each step performed. Each Tutorial (chapter) combines conceptual coverage with detailed software-specific instructions. A running case that is featured in each tutorial highlights the real-world applications of each software program and leads students step-by-step from problem to solution.

Computing Essentials 2007, Complete Edition (O'Leary Series)

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Stop writing out of date information!.......2007-03-06

I purchased the entire 2007 collection for my CIS (computer information systems) class. I have been working professionally with computers for close to 10 years. These books all have the exact same introductions in full coor which boost the price ($200 for the lot). The information has not been updated for years even though the title of the book is 2007 version. How long does it take to realize that Adobe purchased Macromedia? Why is there a section talking baout how to chat online? These books are awful, slowly updated, overly expensive, and a waste of space.

I feel as if i have become dumber after reading these... things. There are some highly complex terms in the book that are tried to be defined by a single line. This ends up becoming more confusing.

If you do not HAVE to by the book for class, do not even look at it. If it is in your hands, drop it and go wash them.

The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Citadel Underground)

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I Want to Take You Higher..........2007-03-16

This is Leary at his most prolific, this is an awe-inspiring book that will change the way you think about Life, Death, and LSD. This book is cleverly used to ease the apprehension of one of life's most fearful moments, the moment of death. Comparing an LSD trip to Tibetan death rituals, Leary shows us how enlightenment can be gained at all stages of life, even the final.

Leary's Confusion.......2006-07-15

The so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead (which is literally translated "Liberation Through Hearing In-Between" - apparently first given the Book of the Dead nickname to associate it with the Egyptian Book of the Dead) is said to give 3 opportunities to gain liberation at death - if it doesn't occur with awareness of the Clear Light, then hopefully with the appearence of the 100 wrathful & peaceful deities, or finally at the very least pulling off a decent human rebirth.

Leary correctly saw the correlation of this root text with acid's stages - but linked the acid trip with the process of dying without liberation - i.e. the dead listener in the root text was not supposed to go through all 3 stages if possible. This is only Leary's first confusion in suggesting acid and the liberation mentioned in the root text are similar, as has been critiqued much later by teachers like Chogyam Trungpa.

Just a small correction.......2006-06-20

"The Void" WAS the original working title for what became "Tomorrow Never Knows" - and was in fact the first song recorded during the Revolver sessions

LIFE.......2006-01-01

First, to -oo0(GoldTrader)0oo-, I'd like to make a few corrections; The Beatles never did a song called 'The Void', the one you're talking about is 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. And The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, especially, were pretty big stars even before they were introduced to this (a ton of US #1 singles, fx....)

Anyway, this is a great book, & a must-have for anyone interested in the concept of LIFE (and I still don't get people who aren't). sometimes it's a bit too 'technical' (do this, do that), and Huxley's 'The Doors Of Perception' is far better in any way. But this book is still essential, and I would recommend anybody that they buy it...

A Few Corrections.......2005-10-05

First a few corrections to ooo(Gold Trader)ooo's review just so people don't get confused with misinformation.

first-- the Beatles' song Gold Trader refers to is "Tomorrow Never Knows" on Revolver, and yes, it was obviously inspired by this book. Lennon claimed it was his only song which was actually about LSD. (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was about his son Julian's school drawing, according to Lennon)

second-- the Beatles were HUGE before they were ever exposed to LSD or Leary's manual, The book was written in 1964, the year Beatlemania swept the USA after being huge in Britain for over a year. That year they tried marijuana with Bob Dylan, but Lennon, who wrote "tomorrow never knows" didn't try LSD until 1965, (by accident) and sometime between then and when he wrote the song in 1966 (tomorrow never knows) is when he god clued into this book.

Another complete error already mentioned by other reviewers is about "Be Here Now" which was published in 1971, seven years after "the Psychedelic Experience." In fact, in "Be Here Now" Ram Dass talks about when Leary was writing "The Psychedelic Experience."

The internet has so many factual errors all over it, might as well correct these ones for a start.

As far as the book itself, it is quite interesting and may be of use in guiding one's experience with psychedelics. You should remember the context of this book and the times, though-- at the other pole, reacting against this extremely prescribed method of tripping was Ken Kesey with the Acid Tests, which you can read all about in Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"

However, Leary's "manual" as this was, for tripping, did have a huge influence. I'd say, read this and the "Acid Test", and Ram Dass's "Be Here Now" which will let you know about some of the pros and cons of psychedelics from a very experienced tripper, then allow them all to influence your experience.

One last thing you can't forget with this "guide" is that it was written before LSD was illegal and by psychologists usuing pharmaceutical grade drugs-- not by people getting illegal drugs which they didn't know the quality or strength of. As Leary later says in the preface to "Politics of Ecstasy", the "Psychedelic Experience" and the "Psychedelic Reader" were written for a mature audience of intellectuals, not the masses of kids who would eventually try to use it.

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Great textbook for learning Microsoft Office 2003.......2007-03-09

Text book used at local university for a 3 unit undergraduate program. Well written and thouough knowledge base for a major software program

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Totam tibi subdo me
Good Leary; Verrrry gooooooddddddd
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This book tells the inside story of Leary's early LSD research at Harvard. Known throughout the world as the guru who encouraged an entire generation to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," he draws on wit, humor, and skepticism to debunk the power of psychotherapy and to advocate reprogramming the brain with psychedelics. Discussing how various drugs affect the brain, how to change behavior, and how to develop creativity, he also delves into psychopharmacological catalyzing, fear of potential, symbol and language imprinting, and brain reimprinting with Hinduism, Buddhism, and LSD.

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Don't pay good money for a "childrens" book on psychedelics.......2007-06-08

Got about half way through the book and tossed it aside. First of all I got it expected a good long read but the book is the thickness and word size of a childrens book. I now agree with others who think Leary was too wraped up in being a leader of the acid culture as it comes off in his arrogant style of writing. I felt like I was being talked down to in places and lied to in others. Leary tries to persuade you to his point of view to the point of lying. Its not that I am just an anti-drug person cutting down the book because I think drugs are bad; I've read and enjoyed many other drug culture books. I support honest information on drugs. If you want to read an interesting, honest book on psychedelics try something by Adeous Huxley.

Totam tibi subdo me.......2006-07-13

It is not there simply for appearing part here, but rather to appear part there. They do not jump the categories and they get where we go. The dislocated paradigm appeared as if nobody had not taken a reading. Thus it is difficult to get our rolamentos. So who thinks about the foundation of parents, unless it is not excellent to its situation? Illumination beckons, but it is not definitive...and the infinitive certainly is not duplicated. They try to adapt pieces in new matrices, the not old ones. To the arrest of the woman demonstrates they had had matrices at least once in their lives. My matrices are grumosos. Grumoso was the friend of Wally. Wally was an astronaut. It's so easy to rhyme the name of extremity with hourra. Hourra for Captain Spaulding. Elephant, pyjamas, etc. The "I" is moved away. "Correcto," she said as she put old pieces in new matrices. "Don't mention the arrest of the woman or her sibling," she cried. (She sees them in the spaces for new features.) But that is old wisdom. They do not put the new wine in old, old wine peels, nor do they put the new wine in "ivrognes," whatever those are. "They" get it perhaps. Do you?

Do you think that the last lives are less complex, or just that the matrix has more dimensions and the known pieces are identical? Hmmm. Do not imply more complexity in the experience until you have learned not to remember new pieces. He is like a devil's food cake without the devil. But pull rank in a Fundente tunnel and you quickly see the defect of sonorous reproductions!

If you can read this, you are too close to godhead.

Good Leary; Verrrry gooooooddddddd.......2006-07-02

Hi; welcome to all Wilson; Icke; Mckenna and Leary fans.

This book has been the first book that i have read of Tiothy Leary. I am impressed by his humor; wit and most of all the way he can see past the system that has been given to us.

I will have to look further into the phenonemon of timothy leary; like wilson and look at some more of his books.

Consciousness Beyond The Mind - The Esoteric Secret.......2004-09-25

This is valuable information, not from a guru or merely eccentric mind, no, but from a former Harvard University psychologist who subjectively and objectively and systematically tested, experimented and clinically proved that LSD and other psychedelics and their subsequent human reactions, mind interpretations and experiential conscious observations were both beneficial and related to outside the limited human mind or chessboards of values and ideas. Of course the government's are threatened by any and all such ideas that venture outside their limited schematical ideas and systems used for social structure, control and submissive subjection and therefore administer intensely unjust persecution.

But to write this information off as arbitrary and valueless is the common human response to change and growth as a human evolutionary species, a rejection that has been practiced since the beginning of time. Therefore those enlightened by such spiritual, rational/non-rational perceptive illuminations have remained relatively unspoken for many thousands of years and have paradoxically been the progenitors of all religious teachings and many political ideologies.

From chapter 8: "To use our heads, to push out beyond words, space-time categories, social identifications, models and concepts, it becomes necessary to go out of our generally rational minds. . .

Our present mental machinery cannot possibly handle the whirling, speed-of-light, trackless processes of our brain, our organ of consciousness itself. . .

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past. . . "

And from Chapter 9:
"From the standpoint of established values, the psychedelic process is dangerous and insane - a deliberate pscyhotization, a suicidal undoing of the equilibrium man should be striving for. With its internal, invisible, indescribable phenomena, the psychedelic experience is incomprehensible to a rational, achievement-oriented, conformist philosophy. but to one ready to experience the exponential view of the universe, psychedelic experience is exquisitely effective preparation for the inundation of data and problems to come."

What impressed me about Leary's information is that of mental imprinting - which only occurs during infancy and/or early childhood, the period of stasis - which is basically our entire lives, and the idea of reimprinting, or breaking on through the imprinted frozen or previously impressed mind - which can occur through psychedelics.

Apparently, there is a short time period as an infant only for many species, or both infant and early childhood for humans, which then ends shortly, permanently imprinting the humans social and cultural frame of mind through linguistics for the remainder of their lives. Experiments with birds and the immediate introduction towards a human, or even a ping pong ball, causes the bird to search for this parental ideal the remainder of their lives. As humans we are subject to the attempt to the ideals that were first exposed to us in early childhood, attempting to get as close to that model for the remainder of our lives, anotherwards we all take a still snapshot on reality, forever freezing our interpretation on what otherwise is a moving transient reality.

With psychedelics, there is an opening again as in infancy and early childhood where a person can perceive the moving essence of reality outside our snapshot of imprinted mindset, our still schematic, and see the moving, multifacted reality in its many different levels, through more than one of the chakras, where one then reimprints their minds with new perceptions of reality and refocuses on previous chessboard structures, thus re-entry into society with much broader and wider perceptive capabilities with significant healing properties that are extremely beneficial.

This book is truly ahead of it's time, and of course, rejected as non-conforming to traditional paradigms and therefore considered a major threat to the comfort zones of our societal and cultural games that we take too seriously as a one and only level of reality.

Numbingly Stupid.......2003-09-19

I have a moderate amount of experience with psychedelics in authentic native religious ceremonies. I thought perhaps reading Leary would give me the white man's perspective on these experiences.

Having read this one book of Leary's, I'm not sure if the title of this review refers to the book or the reader :) Some of the history of the 1960s drug culture contained in this book was interesting. However, the interesting historical tidbits occur randomly with little clear context or relationship to the rest of the book. In fact, this volume reads not like a book but rather like so many unrelated paragraphs. Most paragraphs make some degree of sense by themselves but there is little if any connection from one paragraph to another. The book is a context-free mish-mash of history, scientific classifications of experience and art, rants against modern society, scholarly analysis of the history of science and philosophy, and personal resentments.

Perhaps I haven't re-imprinted my brain sufficiently, or perhaps I've not re-imprinted it closely enough to Leary's own re-imprinting, or perhaps I'm just dumb. Either way, I didn't get much out of this book.

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The Important Thing is the Trip.......2006-02-03

I never met Dr. Leary. We corresponded by mail, I talked with him once via phone during the time he was petitioning for asylum in Switzerland, and I subsequently calligraphed and co-edited the Terra II manuscript for him. This latter bit of collaboration got my mug and a write-up about my work for Dr. Leary on the front page of the daily newspaper here--sort of a "local boy does strange" story. I saw him from a bus window during assembly for one of the mammoth marches against the war in Vietnam, in DC (1970). That's the extent of my contact and involvement with the man.

Living as we do during the insanity of "the war on drugs," "the war on terrorism," and the rise of the commercial-political police state in our country, this book seems a long-ago, far-off relic of an age that has little if anything to do with ours. There is nothing groovy about the liars, murderers, and criminal minds who today run Camp America.

So, why bother at all with this book? For one thing, it is evidence of hope--that a hopeful life is possible with eyes, mind, and heart all open to the possibility that something new can enter our lives. It is a chronicle that directly addresses the question of despair, as Tim describes approaching his own breaking point and his subsequent epiphany. It is not a journal of pretense such as one finds in typical media accounts of Leary's journey, but of encounter and reflection upon what is "high"--true, meaningful, and worthy of furthering through the medium of one's own life.

In sum, this book is for the voyager and explorer, those who are not entirely shackled by convention and fear. It is a chronicle of transformation and an opening upon the living questions that form the basis of our existence.

for ace backwards the self proclaimed "48 year old homeless bum".......2005-07-26

I wrote this first paragraph to another of Ace's negative reviews for Alan Watts but I feel my response can be applied with validity to his review here as well. I haven't read this Alan Watts book but how can you criticize Alan Watts for possibly, (I'm not going to take your word for it and I have little interest in whether this great man may have been an alcoholic at one point), having been a drunk in his youth when in another review you call Charles Bukowski, one of the world's most renown drunks, the greatest writer ever. Bukowski is known for having written great poems and being a complete alcoholic, I like his poetry it's good, but Alan Watts almost single handedly BROUGHT EASTEN RELIGIONS TO THE WEST! Watts was a Zen Buddhist and Taoist master. Alan Watts in one of the great heroes of humanity for opening up the close minded consciousness in America during a time when it was readily accepted by the masses to the loving heart of the Buddha's teachings and The Way of Kindness. Stop blaming others for your failings Ace and start being accountable for your own life choices. I don't care if being homeless was a purposeful decision or an accidental one but it's not Alan Watts, Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, or Terence Mckenna's fault. You are trying to help people with your how to be homeless book just as those men tried to help the world to be a better place during very troubling times. I feel your negativity is misguided, if you really want to blame somebody for the world being so difficult and unfair I suggest you aim your resentment at corrupt power hungry close minded money grubbing greedy politicians, dictators, fascists, and CEOs of corporations and others among us in this global community that would take more then their share without ever any concern for if or how others survive if they can and not harbor anger at those who tried to create and/or maintain freedom in this country while increasing awareness and intelligence.

Sadly Timothy Leary's first wife Marianne, Susan's Mother suffered from depression and took her own life, something Ace neglected to mention here, and as we know depression can be genetically passed down from a parent to a child. I also think it's important to add Marianne's suicide took place before Timothy Leary had ever taken or was even introduced to LSD and her death was completely unrelated to his experimentation with the substance.

Escaping the Mind's Prison Into Neurological Ecstasy.......2004-09-14

I'm sad to finish this book, as I have walked with Leary with his first mushroom encounter in Mexico, walked with his colleges and friends, from Dick Albert (Ram Dass), Robert Metzner, Huston Smith, Aldous Huxley, Walter Clark, Walter Puhnke, Michael Hollingshead, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg - I love Ginsberg - , Gordon Wasson, Frank Barrons and even William Burroughs. From his Millbrook estate to his Harvard studies, prison studies, first LSD trip, to his religious experiential studies and the amazing internal transformations that for myself are greatly superior to static intellectualism. And yet using such intellectual insights coupled with subjective encounters - in allusive non-categorical observance - brings forth the dynamics of Leary's story.

There is far too much information to relate here, the book is enlightening.
All together 16 trips or stories along with various quotes from magazine articles, short thoughts, to excerpts from other books from Ginsberg, Hollingshead, Wasson, Walter Houston Clark, Huxley and others make this book not only informative, but really do capture what is intended to be conveyed - the mystical- religious - subjective - internal - experiential - magical/irrational experience of psychedelics and most importantly, their beneficial use in social, psychological, ontological, neurological, rehabilitative, and spiritual uses. There is no doubt in my mind as to the benefits of psychedelics for the human race.

"Everyone who isn't tripping himself because he's too scared or tired is going to resent our doing it. Sex, drugs, fun, travel, dancing, loafing. You name it. Anything that's pleasurable is going to bring down the wrath of the power-control people. Because the essence of ecstasy and the essence of religion and the essence of orgasm (and they're all pretty much the same) is that you give up power and swing with it. And the cats who can't do that end up with the power and they use it to punish the innocent and the happy. And they'll try to make us look bad and feel bad." P. 79

This quote (and others) reminds me of Ray Manzarek's story in his book, Light My Fire, of visiting a Las Vegas style rat pack record executive who literally flipped out after hearing a tape of The Doors, hearing that they were psychedelic orientated music. The power people can never accept surrender and vulnerability that comes with the internal search as opposed to the external control.

"The threshold of adult game life is the ancient and natural time for the rebirth experience, the flip-out trip from which you come back as a man. A healthy society provides and protects the sacredness of the teen-age psychedelic voyage. A sick, society fears and forbids the revelation." p. 133

Trip 1 is Leary's non-chemical death and rebirth of a physical sickness.

Trip 2 is the story of Leary's discover of the mushroom in Mexico with some substantial quotes from Gordon Wasson on mushrooms.

Trip 3 has Dick Albert, Jack and Timothy Leary flying in Dick's plane. It also contains Leary's Playboy interview, other magazine quotes and quotes from Albert Cohen and Shiller's LSD.

Trip 6 has Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky walking around naked, Ginsberg telephoning his pal Jack Kerouac and some great Ginsberg quotes! The movement to turn on the world - well intentioned, but naive, the power people would never submit nor allow such conscious expansion beyond the control principal to continue.

Trip 7 talks about the rational thinking of Arthur Koestler's verses the irrationality of a LSD - religious experience and how the two don't see eye to eye.

Trip 9 shows the benefits of incarcerated prisoner rehabilitation and recidivism rate decrease from LSD therapy.

Trip 11 touches on William Burroughs and how he thinks on another tribal level, as we all come from different tribal evolutionary thinking. In the end Burroughs drops out of the clan and disapproves of the way Leary, his fellow Harvard and other constituents handle the mushroom therapy - Leary's got a monopoly on love.
Trip 12 is about Michael Hollingshead's famous mayonnaise jar of LSD and Leary's first experience along with the Jazz musician and his wife, Maynard and Flo Ferguson. And amazing account, really. And Leary, as Huxley has written in 1953, was forever a changed man. He had seen the games, the roles played, the human fallibility of truths, statistics, ideals and so forth from an objective standpoint, from the ultimate subjective standpoint.

Trip 15's Good Friday experiment under the coaxing of the intellectual and scholar Walter Pahnke is also an incredible story and ultimately Leary admits that the mind expansive consciousness is not a rational Descartes mind set, but a religious experience and of course, not under any particular religious structure - in this case Christianity is very constraining, limiting and restraining.

I love the explanation in Trip 16 that Leary related from Pat Bolero to a fellow psychologist who not only became fearful when hearing of "drugs" but could not comprehend her words that attempted to point to the clarity outside of the discursive mindset.

This book has some great Allen Ginsberg quotes and stories, great Burroughs stories, Leary's family, Dick Albert, Michael Hollingshead and many other intellectuals, scholars, divinity school students, the Good Friday experiment, artists, poets, theologians. I love his daughter's, Susan Leary, account of her growing up and observing the LSD sessions, of Alan Watts and others. The trip in Tim's place with Dick Albert, both erroneously thinking the pet dog was dying and other stories make this a very entertaining book to read. But ultimately, its the beneficial attributes from the psychedelic sessions weighted against the opposition that really make this book totally worthwhile.

"Reality and the addiction to any one reality is a tissue-thin neurological fragility. At the height of a visionary experience it is crystal-clear that you can change completely. Be an entirely different person. Be any person you choose. It is a moment of rebirth . . . . It is habit, fear and laziness that keep people from changing after an LSD experience. It's so much easier to doubt your divinity, drift back to speaking English, wearing ties, playing the old game. p. 334

"There comes a point in every lifetime when the blinders are removed and the individual glimpses for a second the nature of the process. This revelation comes through a biochemical change in the body. A Twist of the protein key and you see where you are at in the total process. p. 336

One thing I've learned as a prison psychiatrist is that society doesn't want the prisoner rehabilitated, and as soon as you start changing prisoners so that they discover beauty and wisdom, God, you're going to stir up the biggest mess that Boston has seen since the Boston Tea Party. . . sooner or later, as soon as they see the thing you do is working, they're going to come down on you 0- the newspaper reporters, the bureaucrats, and the officials. Harvard given drugs to prisoners! p. 18

I had seen enough and read enough of the anti-vision crowd, the power-holders with guns, and the bigger and better men we got on your team the stronger our position. p. 128

We even ran sessions for parole officers and correction officials (they tripped). Some of them had unhappy trips. People committed to external power are frightened by the release of ecstasy because the key is surrender of external power. One chief parole officer flipped out paranoid at my house and accused us of a Communist conspiracy and stormed around while Madison Presnell curled up on the couch watching, amused at the white folks frantically learning how to get high. He grinned at me. So you call it the love drug? p. 208

Dr. Tim Leary's Wisdom.......2003-05-20

The ideal audience for this book really has a large range; it is ideal for anyone wanting to experience a "trip" from a hallucinogenic drug without the actual drug. High Priest is an excellent piece of art, it is an encyclopedia of Leary's 16 most life changing "trips" when under various forms of hallucinogens. It is filled with strong imagery to support Leary's want to tell the world about the wonderful hallucinogenic "trip". His style is very unique in that especially in a series of short stories, he can in essence connect them, just as he does in his life with situations. He uses a very intense tone, and style becomes rapid as he submerges into a hallucinogenic state, almost as if you where there with him. Then as he's coming out of it his style loosens and becomes slower, and drowsy. Its almost as if there were two extremes one is cold and gray, and the other is vibrant and full of life. This book will definitely stir your interest about psychedelic drugs and the life behind it. Leary's intense flavor and swirling style can sometimes almost be frightening especially when he discusses his inner emotions about death, and his chilling way of expressing his views on the "life changing trips". I think this book is very educational depending on your view of education, and can teach people, things about other cultures that may not be their own, a counterculture if you will. I recommend High Priest to anyone with a thirst for knowledge and an open mind.

true freedom.......2002-09-16

essential reading for the humanist, the individualist, the psychedelicist and the lover of freedom.

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Self-serving garbage.......2006-12-12

Timothy Leary's last stand. It's terribly sad so many trees had to die a painful death in order for this man to give the world one last horray-me before his colon ate him alive. Sadly, the book amasses to nothing more than "Me Against the Government: They Won..." For nearly 500 pages we hear Leary addressing his life in a manner of speaking that even George W. Bush would consider arrogant. Read Greenfield's biography of Leary for the true story.

This book is a must have for any student of the 60's..........2006-09-18

... or anyone who wants to revisit the good ole daze...

I met Tim quite a bit later in life, when he was in his 60's, and man was he a bright, charismatic guy! You could just tell from watching him and listening to him that he was on a whole other level.

He was a veritable smorgasbord of wisdom, experience, humanity, love, insight, wonder, beauty, light, fun, excitement, and so on and so forth, ad infinitum...

He was very sharp into his transitional years (transitioning from old age to what we call death, what Tim would call a new beginning), way sharper than most younger people ever will be... The guy was a genius, highly intelligent, brilliant, an Einstein of consciousness.

He'd seen things; no, not hallucinations, but deep reality, deep consciousness, high consciousness, the way things work on an atomic level, the way things work on a macrocosmic level...

And he could tell you things... As he said one time "I'm a cheerleader for consciousness!" And he was. He taught a lot of people about freedom, about questioning reality, questioning authority, questioning your illusions, questioning everything.

Meanwhile, he lived quite a life. And this book is about that life, in his own words.

I found the book to be an absolute page-turner, fun, funny, interesting, amazing...

If you are looking for a really well-written and interesting autobiography, about one of the sixties' greatest men, I highly recommend you read this book. If you do, you'll see that Tim was about a lot more than just "turn on, tune in, drop out".

Marilyn Monroe(Garry Hixon) rates Flashbacks.......2002-03-14

A really good book, lot's of funny stories about Leary and Liddy squaring off, a very intelligent man, comparable to John C. Lilly's Center of the Cyclone. Many Beatles references and 60's chantra's-Turn on tune in, drop out! The one where he escapes from CMC is funny, what an acrobat. The book is better than the audio cassettes. Book has his baby-boomer/whiz kids chart. Supposedly, any kid born after 1965, is a computer nut in the future, could be, but more like internet kids. Tells about his experiences at Harvard, and how stuffy they were in the early 60's. Tells about his [drug] experience with Marilyn Monroe, and he says"If I knew how sick she was then, my God I would of never given her the [stuff]." She in turn gave him some Randy/Mandy's, some Barb that gives feeling of Euphoria when mixed with booze. She was more wacked out than him. He talks about how happy he is, and how happy the world was in the 60's. Good book and I'm going to read it again, when I can afford it!-A good buy, for a book!-Love Marilyn(Garry)

EL MUNDO DE LOS HONGOS Y EL ACID.......2002-01-04

Este libro es como una biblia, un manual y un diccionario todo en uno, en este libro Tim Leary nos sumerge en este mundo que sin lugar a dudas es intrigante y a veces hasta peligroso, pero este libro no es extrictamente para el usuario o ex usuario de tan maravillosa droga es algo que puede ser disfrutado por cualquier lector.

what an autobiography should be.......2001-06-16

This work is my favorite autobiography. Leary really starts at the very beginning (exceptionally humorously) with his conception in his mother's womb and takes you through his early years as a student, his time at Harvard as an esteemed academic and then up through his "retirement" years as a stand up comedian/raconteur and lecturer.

Each chapter is nicely designed with a mini bio of someone who had impressed Leary and then continues with Leary's take on the various events in his life. There is much self-disclosure here in the form of admitting mistakes, something you certainly do not find a lot of in many autobiographies of conservatives!

Leary's writing is lively, intelligent and hopeful - a friendly warning to all drug warriors that it is possible to live a productive, intellectually fruitful life while participating in moderate psychedelic "research" and consumption.

The thing I like best about this work is that it is a hallmark of the true libertarian spirit. Leary smiled quite often during his life despite the fact that the power and control freaks tried to keep him down every day. Leary was a proud humanist and his spirit shall live on in many of us.

Info-Psychology: A Revision of Exo-Psychology (Future History Series) (Furure History Series)
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This is a more technical description on the Eight Neural Circuit model

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Dr. Leary explores the real issues of our time. Space Migration, Intelligence Increase and Life Extension in this "Manual on the Use of the Human Nervous System According to the Instructions of the Manufacturers."

"The Info-Worlds our species will discover, create, explore and inhabit in the immediate future will not be reached from launch pads alone, but also through our personal computer screens."

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One of My All-Time Favorite Books!.......2007-05-15

This was one of the most influential books that I read while i was in college. It helped me to understand my psychedelic experiences and to shape my ideas about the evolution of consciousness more than almost any other book. I think that Leary's 8-Circuit model of the brain, and his theory of neural imprinting and psychedelic reimprinting, is one of the important contributions to 20th Century psychology. Leary was a brilliant philosopher, an uncannily creative psychologist, and his extraterrestrial vantage point in this book can be hilarious at times. This is one of my all-time favorite books.

This is a more technical description on the Eight Neural Circuit model.......2006-12-01

This book is a more thorough and technical analysis of the Eight Neural Circuit Model of human consciousness. The diligent magical reader may more easily compare personal magical development to the circuits understood as general stages of consciousness evolution.

Don't dodge the "exo-" of the original.......2006-01-29

This book originally was published as "Exo-Psychology" and the title referred to Dr. Leary's interest in space colonization. Dr. Leary got caught up in the personal computer windstorm of the 1990s and (the Challenger explosion didn't help) turned his sights from outer space to cyberspace. But his original insight that psychedelic states presage those of extraterrestrial minds remains prescient. This book delineates a model of developmental psychology that spans prehistory to posthistory, and deserves a new reading by a new, postpsychedelic, generation. The book sprung from a philosophical context that Dr. Leary called Interstellar Neurogenetics. The term never caught on, but its spirit lives at www.starlarvae.org.

Worth the read in any case.......2005-06-23

If you are already of the opinion that Timothy Leary was just some fanatical cult organizer under the influence of every illegal substance known to man, you have nothing to lose by reading one of his books. You can at least hope to obtain some first-hand evidence of his alleged insanity.

On the other hand, you would have a hard time convincing me that this book was written under any influence other than a joyful wonder and awe concerning knowledge and the world, and perhaps a mild resentment toward the system that imprisoned him for far greater a period of time than is typical for possession of marijuana.

By all means, InfoPsychology presents an unconventional model of reality, the human mind, and evolution. "Crazy" seems at times to be the best description for some of the ideas presented here. But as Leary himself points out, until the next evolutionary plateau is reached, concepts associated with that plateau will seem alien and threatening to the status quo (as well they should). But that is no excuse to dismiss these ideas as crazy. Subversive, contraversial, beyond the reach of our collective understanding and acceptance, perhaps. Certainly not crazy.

And if only for the time it takes to read the book we accept Leary's logical progression, we'll see that his book must necessarily be considered "crazy." He is dealing with evolutions that have not yet occurred. We cannot expect to fully understand and appreciate the complexities of an evolved form of humanity any more than neanderthals could've been expected to understand us. And in order to be able to reprogram ourselves, we must first recognize, or be made aware of how programmed we are to begin with.

A review of the science . . ........2004-06-26

I am totally blown away by Leary, his intellect, large cahones, especially his humor. He is like a volcano of creativity. But then I don't use the chemical stimulants that he does (did) so that plays a big part in how things are accomplished.

However as far as his science let me say that Tim appears to be an intuit and not a scientist. And let me jump to the chase and be specific in criticism of the 8-circuit theory. Tim is exactly right through level four. How do I know? Well, it's unpublished sitting here half written but if the title sticks it will be called Neo Everything. Anyway I've spent sixteen years at it from a biological-evolutional perspective of Tim's subject, so take it as you will.
I count 16 such circuits, and I have a solid underlying theory to prove it. At the very least there are twelve, consistent with Western astrological -slash- NeoPlatonic "math." Twelve have been well known since before J. C. Biblical times. Leary has taken the first four, literally Aries through Cancer, skipped the next eight (Leo through Pieces) and cuts directly to transcendent or semi-transcendent states which are really a lack of order -- allowing the remaining order to function with less self-inhibition -- a semi-psychic-break (with color) kind of semi-super-fluidity of experience. Anyway he gets it right, though he leaves out far more than he includes.

Please excuse but I'm using the old language. I indeed use language similar to Leary's: survival for Aries for example.
This stuff isn't hard -- Leary makes it easier and more experiential than it is, however. He sees the "circuits" through a mystical filter of self-construction over which we have (ultimate) control. This could only be true in the most fantastic Ideal of being carefully engineered by gods as "divine" . . . but then there is the problem of who created the gods?
Somehow the difficult task of dealing with evolutionary theory (bio-engineering solution-opportunity basically) does not occur (what need?) in the context of the divine and wonderfully peak experience that Dr. Leary so adores.
Perhaps it's just a confusion. Leary's experiential review is a valid and entertaining simplification that I would guess appeals to more people than a far less warmly colored study of Reality.

The Politics of Ecstasy (Leary, Timothy)
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DO NOT READ THIS BOOK..........2005-09-28

...if you wish to stay the same because believe me, once you read it, you never will be. I got this book when I was about 26-27 years old when I felt as though I was just passing through life and not really living it. I felt like everything was "ho-hum". All of my senses were set to dull. Inside of me there was just this gnawing ache that there has got to be something more...not just "out there"...but "in here"...in my heart, in my soul, in my mind...

And then along comes Timothy.

Irreverent, Rebellious,Smart-Ass Timothy Leary espousing the Truth that all advancement in life is already in our very DNA. It dwells deep within the very marrow of our bones because we, as a species, were not meant to stand still...we were not meant to live lives of quiet desperation...we were meant to behold a world that burns and sparkles with Light.

People tend to think one is hallucinating when one sees vibrant colors, when everyday things seem to shine with a new brilliance, when even the song from a songbird feels like a musical triumph, but this is how life really is, boys and girls! We are hallucinating when we think that the world is dull and thick and leaden...we are hallucinating when we think that we are just these heavy clods of biodegradble clay that stalk the earth. We are here to discover...or should I say, uncover the paradise that is already within the invisible realms of the ancient mind that dwells within us and we in it.

Does this mean you have to take LSD in order to experience the jewelike radiance that all of life is made in and out of? Not neccessarily and I am not advocating that you do. What I am advocating is that you allow yourself to get enthused about life. Enthusiasm literally means to be filled with God. God wants to know Itself as you...as me...in each and every moment of creation.

Read Timothy Leary. Marvel at his excitement for life, join him in the mind & soul rebellion against flaccid governments and soul controlling religions and their warped politics and dissapointing creeds both of which are more than happy to think and decide for you, laugh in joyful relief that you are not a body with a soul, but you are a soul with a body,and be willing to stray from the pack of lemmings that's headed for the edge of the cliff only to drown in the shallow seas of mediocrity.

Open your eyes.
Open your mind.
Open your soul.
Open your heart.
Open this book and let the tingling in each of your 40 trillion cells remind you are here to do more than exist, you are here to LIVE and to LIVE WELL.

Peace & Blessings to this this place we call the world.

Expanding Consciousness Beyond the Mind's Homocentric Limits.......2004-09-22

Wow! What a book! Leary is a real psychedelic guru, not in the orthodox sense, but really a man ahead of his time, a Galileo in the charter exploration of the mind and consciousness. He started off as a conservative Harvard professor, yet not so conservative, as he had his own ideas. But after his religious experience, and that's what psychedelics do - the expanding of your consciousness to a religious experience - he became aware of the societal and cultural chessboards - the games - and here became outspoken apart from the Harvard rationalistic mindset which rests on only one static frame of a multi-dimensional, dynamic existence.

I read this book smiling, over and over again. I walked down the street with a smile, mostly for Leary's optimism, then his frank and bold statements, which in most part I agree with. His style sometimes just makes you laugh and smile and say to yourself "I wish I had the guts enough say this." And although his predictions did not come true, you can't help but subjectively comprehend the 60's atmosphere, enveloped with the baby boomers in their youth taking up the majority of the population and their experiential drug use in psychedelics, which in turn, brought forth all the femininity of creativeness, patience, tolerance, peacefulness and artistic development that was permeating the entire American culture and spreading around the world and thus brought on the male dominated aggression of control and police power. So Leary's optimism and predictions were really a good assessment of the time despite their failure to come true. And nothing makes me sadder than to see his predictions fail from the creative mind expanding youth to our current male power, controlling and agressive society.

You can write Leary off as a kook from the conservative's point of view, the rationalist who never "experienced," and that's the KEY here - never experienced a trip under favorable circumstances and environment. Leary is the same as other heretics and kooks of history, a Galileo of mind exploration and conscious expansion, a Guttenberg of exoteric enlightenment, as in this book as well as one who clearly recognizes the need for new symbols that relate the esoteric experience of LSD, of cellular memories, of DNA language outside the mind, of experiential journeys that can only be told under a new language, as the microscope discovered new world had brought forth, as quantum physics brought forth and every other new fields of exploration that can only be described outside the current symbols we currently use.

Leary on page 141: The lesson I have learned from over 300 sessions, and which I have been passing on to others, can be stated in 6 syllables: Turn on, tune in, drop out. "Turn on" means to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. "Tune in" means to harness and communicate these new perspectives in a harmonious dance with the external world. "Drop out' means to detach yourself from the tribal game. Current models of social adjustment - mechanized, computerized, socialized, intellectualized, televised, Sanforized - make no sense to the new LSD generation, who see clearly that American society is becoming an air-conditioned anthill. In every generation of human history, thoughtful men have turned on and dropped out of the tribal game and thus stimulated the larger society to lurch ahead. Every historical advance has resulted from the stern pressure of visionary men who have declared their independence from the game.

On page 196: My philosophy of life has been tremendously influenced by my study of oriental philosophy and religion. Of course, what the American, regardless of his religious belief, doesn't understand is that the aim of oriental religious is to get high, to have an ecstasy, to tune in, to turn on, to contact incredible diversity, beauty, living, pulsating meaning of the sense organs, and the much more complicated and pleasurable and revelatory messages of cellular energy. To a Hindu, the spiritual quest is internal.

Different sects of oriental religion use different methods and different body organs to find God. The Shivites use the senses; the followers of Vishnu are concerned with cellular wisdom, contacting the endless flow of reincarnation wisdom which biochemists would call protein wisdom of the DNA code; Buddhist manuals on consciousness expansion are concerned with the flash, the white light of the void, the ecstatic union that comes when you're completely turned on, beyond the senses, beyond the body.

On page 202-203: What we're doing for the mind is what the microbiologists did for the external science 300 years ago when they discovered the microscope. And they made this incredible discovery that life, health, growth, every form of organic life, is based on the cell, which is invisible.

You've never seen a cell; what do you think of that? Yet it's the key to everything that happens to a living creature. I'm simply saying that same thing from the mental, psychological standpoint, that there are wisdoms, lawful units inside the nervous system, invisible to the symbolic mind, which determine almost everything.

And I don't consider myself that mystical - unless you'd call someone who looks through a microscope a mystic, because he's telling you about something for which you don't have the symbols. Or the astronomer who detects a quasar and speculates about it.

On page 208: Every time you take LSD you completely suspend - you step outside of - the symbolic chessboard which you have built up over the long years of social conditioning. And you whirl through different levels of neurological and cellular energy, continually flowing and changing.

Your symbolic mind is flashing in and out. You never love your mind during and LSD session. It's always there, but it's one of a thousand cameras that are flashing away. Of course, the LSD freak-out, or paranoia, is where the symbolic mind freezes any aspect of the LSD session and defines a new reality, which can be positive or negative.

Read this book.

Changed my life.......2004-01-25

This is the single most influential book I have ever read. Completely legitmizes and encourages religious experiences through psychedelic means. Anyone currently using psychedelic drugs or interested in them should read this to gain greater understanding of their power. Learn why LSD and other are really illegal, the government knows they free minds!

Let freedom reign.......2002-01-31

This work is a hallmark for questioning authority, pursuing individual freedom and happiness, and working to build a more enjoyable and enriched world. Lovers of liberty would be well-advised to study this work thoroughly, and then pass it along to the nearest religious extremist. It will surely get a reaction.

The original........1998-10-20

Dr. Leary maintains a high ground in his defense of the value of the psychedelic. This is the early work and a must have.

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