…elevated states of grokking a massive amount of interlocking complexity at the same time and this is very important this comes from from Leary and and all these people who tripped in the 60s. You see the game you see the mundane reality when you when…

…part. Due to my close friendship with Myron Soloroff and Gary Fisher both of whom who had very close working relationships with Dr Leary in the 60s. Well I have a highly negative opinion of Tim Leary and in deference to my two friends, I haven't done…

…I have a highly negative opinion of Tim Leary and in deference to my two friends, I haven't done anything to add to the Leary Legend. But the fates have decided that my stand can no longer be tolerated at least that's the way I read the fact that…

…a data drive arrived in my mailbox last week that had almost 100 gigabytes of audio and video recordings of the good Dr Leary, and so it seems that I can no longer ignore this part of modern psychedelic history. Heck, even Ralph Abraham quoted him in…

…trial log so I guess that should be a sign for me to loosen up a bit. I'm not going to promise how much of this Leary archive I'll be playing here in the salon, but for next week I thought it would be interesting to hear the talk that Tim Leary…

…this in person and that is his statement that as much as he admired Timothy Leary, that he nonetheless felt that it was Leary who was mainly responsible for causing an end to the psychedelic research, at least until very recently. And while I don't want…

…maybe you do a little research on your own. Read some of the news articles from back in those days. And then compare what Leary was doing when he was tripping with a dozen or so spiritually inclined followers with what ken Kesey was doing when he and…

…what ken Kesey was doing when he and his friends were dosing thousands of people at a time, many of them unsuspecting. Granted, Leary Eventually came under the influence of Kesey and made a public spectacle of himself for a while but in my opinion I put…

…across a short little piece that was part of the question and answer session of a panel that, in addition to Dr Leary, included Allen Ginsberg, William S Burroughs Abby Hoffman, Gregory Corso and other notables from the beat generation and from what some…

…free America. We're just learning how to get the game together. Okay now I have two questions, the first for Alan or Mr Leary and the second for Mr Burroughs. Wait till you hear this. The first one: I'm sort of obsessed with death. Whose mine? Well…

…he mentioned the fact that Bruce Dahmer had just been on the Duncan Trussell podcast. And he also mentioned a podcast by Zach Leary featuring Tony Moss. Well, I don't know if this is actually a synchronicity, but both Bruce and Tony are dear friends of…

…familiar with Bruce Neymar. But if you don't already know Tony Moss, then I highly recommend that you listen to his interview with Zach Leary. Tony is one of my all time favorite people. And if you're a Unix geek, then you know what I mean when I say…

…with us here in the salon for a while, you know that at a later date, when the two of them methadone, the good doctor Leary denied ever having said that. However, he did allow that he thought it a good phrase. So I guess we have to credit anonymous…

…I want to report that I've been very remiss this year in not mentioning the fact that our longtime friend of the salon, Zach Leary, has his own podcast, not knowing that, in my case, is a result of my dropping out of Facebook, where I often exchange…

…which I'm here to tell you is much more difficult than you might imagine. His podcast is called it's all happening with Zach Leary, and now that I've listened to his last few podcasts, I plan on starting at the beginning and catching up. In fact, if…

…heard. As you know, we featured Zach's dad, Doctor Timothy Leary, here in the salon on quite a few occasions. In fact, the Leary Trust has not only allowed me to podcast Doctor Leary's audio works, they also gave the salon a very generous donation to…

…today's program notes, which you'll find@psychedelicsalon.com and so, in closing, I thought I'd like to read once again something that Doctor Leary said, and which many of us have repeated over and over. At least we've repeated the last three words in this…

…plus that. That's not how I would do it. I say single pure substances. And if you're unsatisfied with the experience, as doctor Leary used to say, when in doubt, double the dose. But he didn't say, when in doubt, empty the medicine cabinet, just double…

…But I'm not going to get into that today. However, getting back to the sixties, on that January day in 1967 when Doctor Leary took the microphone at the human being in San Francisco's Golden Gate park and famously said, turn on, tune in and drop out.…

…come from a long line of western artists, scientists, and intellectuals. You most definitely aren't a freak. In fact, just as Doctor Leary told those students in 1982, you should applaud yourself for being here. You come from a long line of explorers, or…

…Timothy just said, you are part of the aristocratic, exploring elite of our species. And should you want to hear more from Doctor Leary, you'll find that here in the salon, there are now over 50 programs in which he is featured. And I should point out…

…with thanks to Bruce Damer, who put me in contact with Dennis. She is the person who gave me copies of all of the Leary talks that had been digitized before his archive was transferred to the New York City Library where it resides today. I also want…

…to the New York City Library where it resides today. I also want to say again how grateful I am to Dennis Berry, Zach Leary, and the Leary Trust, who, during one of the salons difficult periods, made a sizable grant to keep us going. So while I never…

…also if you stay in a field like this, you eventually get to meet everybody. You get to meet Albert Hoffman and Sasha Shulgin and Leary and Lily and all these people, and you begin to have a view of how all these people viewed it. So what I wanted…

…you. That's why it really comes out of these networking situations. Far more important than relating to a distant leader on the subject, Leary or Metzner or me or anybody. It would be much better to have a friend who was moving along the path with you,…

…year, I've got some bad news. After all of the wild Hoopa law that Bruce Dahmer and I created about our Gigantuan, McKenna and Leary extravaganza at this year's burn, well, we're going to have to cancel it. There are a lot of reasons for this, but the…

…some things that are taking a lot of time and resources from us. And for what it's worth, we haven't completely abandoned the Leary and McKenna project. In fact, we've decided to develop the concept a little more slowly and we might even take it on the…

…the dissolving whiteness, the oneness with the unspeakable of Meister Eckhart and that crowd, except in. The Harvard experiments originally with Leary and Alpert. They used psilocybin with these. Well, but they put them in a chapel on Good Friday. Well, so…

…But for now I'd like to read for you a little overview of our happening as conceived by Bruce Dahmer and here's what he wrote. Leary and McKenna come to burning man. Hear ye, hear ye, y'all come on into the tent, for the main event is about to start.…

…burning man. Hear ye, hear ye, y'all come on into the tent, for the main event is about to start. It's Tim and Terrence, Leary and McKenna that is at Burning man for their first time. It's dialogues, trialogues and well, this year it's going to be one…

…for MDMA, or ecstasy. Back in the eighties, even at ground zero in Dallas, we called it Adam as often as we called it XDev Leary. And the whole episode in the 1960s proved it can't succeed if it's waged as a mass movement. It's a hell of a party,…

…maybe I'm just becoming a grumpy old man. So please don't let me persuade you one way or the other. As the good doctor Leary often said, you have to think for yourself. This is something that it's up to you to decide for yourself and then adjust your…

…discussion of the pros and cons of the work and life of Doctor Timothy Leary. Another thought that I have is that Leary is just too controversial to be spoken about in glowing terms by people trying to integrate themselves into the mainstream. Do you…

…I've noticed is that the people who had personal relations with him often fall into two general categories. Those who worked with Doctor Leary in the sixties and seventies and those who were associated with him in the last two decades of his life. And in…

…who were at large during those days, as were the Grateful Dead and a dozen other bands or more. It wasnt all about Doctor Leary only back in those days, at least not the way I remember them. I was a young straight and narrow naval officer back in…

…Eric's question, I think your perception Eric may be on target. I know that I've had any number of people speak of Doctor Leary in positive terms when we've been alone, but I seldom hear anyone say these things in public. Now there was a major exception…

…face it, you and I probably wouldn't be here in the psychedelic salon together right now if it hadn't been for the good doctor Leary. So we all owe him a lot, I'd say. Now I was going to say something about this year's burning man activities, but I'll…

…should be brought in on this. This is going to be tremendous. But it polarized. I find it hard to understand. I mean I like Leary very much and Metzner is a close personal friend of mine, but I'm now 42 years old. I'm the age Leary was when he was…

…I mean I like Leary very much and Metzner is a close personal friend of mine, but I'm now 42 years old. I'm the age Leary was when he was fired from Harvard. If I were fired from Esalen, so to speak, my responsibility, the chance would not be a tour…

…the sex on psychedelics is the Mount Everest of the experience and is rarely mentioned for some reason. I remember, what was it? Leary. Years and years ago he was interviewed and oh, there was some whole, I know it was when they broke the story of…

…it was when they broke the story of the pseudo story that LSD cracks chromosomes. It wasn't true. So then they came to Leary and said, they're saying LSD cracks chromosomes. He said, well, go back and tell them it causes orgasms, which last 2 hours.…

…and said, they're saying LSD cracks chromosomes. He said, well, go back and tell them it causes orgasms, which last 2 hours. Leary understood the information war. He understood how, you know, they tell a story, you tell a story. Maybe we should. We're…

…truth, I had a touch of the blues, as we used to call it when I was growing up. And for some reason, even though the Leary material was interesting, it just wasn't what I needed to get me in the mood to do this week's podcast. So what I did is…

…Timothy Leary's talk titled how to use your head. Here's a part of what Doctor Purple had to say. The negative side of Leary, or anyone else for that matter, usually tends to be those things which people don't like about themselves, or a bit of…

…tends to be those things which people don't like about themselves, or a bit of hypocrisy here or there. Toward the end, Leary embraced lots of things technological. He saw the spiritual side of cyberspace or mindspace, or wherever it is we are when we…

…Barack Obamas church, Reverend Wright, is vilified. Taken out of context and twisted so as to be misunderstood. Leary was constantly vilified. He embraced socialism and and libertarian socialism and cooperative anarchism so mainstream republicans and Democrats…

…and runs along the lines of what I was just saying about being your own elder. Doctor Purple goes on. I was introduced to Leary at a time when I was deeply anti capitalist and the Leary I discovered in the early eighties was that of the late sixties…

…your own elder. Doctor Purple goes on. I was introduced to Leary at a time when I was deeply anti capitalist and the Leary I discovered in the early eighties was that of the late sixties and early seventies. The Leary I discovered in the late eighties…

…of the Timothy Leary talk at Cooper Union has been very well received, and so I'll definitely be podcasting more lectures from the Leary archives in the weeks and months ahead. In fact, I suddenly have all kinds of new material to play for you. But…

…But besides the difference in personalities, I think it's also important to recognize that approximately 25 years came between the talk doctor Leary gave at Cooper Union and Terrence's State of the Stone address that we're about to hear. In a way, I find…

…this week together a little bit and to give you a small idea of the relationship between Terrence and the good Doctor Leary, I'm going to first play a very short. Soundbite of Leary introducing Terrence I'm not sure where it was that this introduction…

…small idea of the relationship between Terrence and the good Doctor Leary, I'm going to first play a very short. Soundbite of Leary introducing Terrence I'm not sure where it was that this introduction was made, but it definitely wasn't from the same event…

…from the same event where the talk we were about to hear was given. So I don't want to mislead you about that. The Leary clip actually comes from one of my favorite cds, which is called Journey through the spheres and is a tribute to Terrence McKenna…

…yourself that works best for you. Be your own person, think for yourself and question authority. All authority as the good doctor Leary often said. And to answer a question that I get quite a lot, my music selections usually vary quite a bit depending…

…they're taking the safe course of getting legal use of this for scientific research, you know, and more power to them. You know, Leary and others did quite a bit of damage to the science side of things. And I'm doing a project with Timothy Leary's…

…work in a morgue, and he said he wants to id which bone this is, you know, and use it for display purposes. But the Leary archives is crammed with a lot of goodies. But what Leary kind of the legacy that Leary left in the overenthusiasm of those days…

…this is, you know, and use it for display purposes. But the Leary archives is crammed with a lot of goodies. But what Leary kind of the legacy that Leary left in the overenthusiasm of those days is that scientific research got shut down. Well, it's back…

…it for display purposes. But the Leary archives is crammed with a lot of goodies. But what Leary kind of the legacy that Leary left in the overenthusiasm of those days is that scientific research got shut down. Well, it's back and sort of back with a…

…regularly attended a monthly Timothy Leary meetup somewhere near Hollywood. And if I remember correctly, at the time, there were dozens of Leary meetups all around the country each month. But just now, I checked and found that they now only show two groups…

…if you stay in a field like this, you eventually get to meet everybody. You get to meet Albert Hoffman and Sasha Shulgin and to Leary and Lily and all these people, and you begin to have a view of how all these people viewed it. So what I wanted to…

…he was joking about this. However, as we all know, there are a few paranoid people out there who are quite convinced that Terrence and Leary and Sasha and a whole lot of them are all CIA mind control agents that are out to get you and me. And now…

…larger than the law of gravity, the speed of light, the second law of thermodynamics all these are little laws, what Leary used to call local ordinances but these local ordinances have now been contextualized in a discovery of such import that it…