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
Timothy Leary quotes about
I declare that The Beatles are mutants.
When you get the message, hang up the phone.
The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
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.
The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.
To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.
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
You are a God Act like one!
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.
Tune in, turn on, and drop out.