Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Learywas an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert, was fired from Harvard University on May 27, 1963 for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate student. Leary was planning to leave Harvard when his teaching contract expired...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth22 October 1920
CitySpringfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.
Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
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'.
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.
Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.
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.
The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
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
I declare that The Beatles are mutants.