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Timothy Francis Leary — psychologist, visionary, and fearless explorer of consciousness. From the hallowed halls of Harvard to the frontiers of the human mind, he dared to question the boundaries of perception and inspired generations to think, feel, and dream beyond the ordinary.
…when you were in Harvard and you had such different paths back at Harvard? The question is, how come Richard Alpert, Bob Ramdass, and I, who had such similar experiences at Harvard, followed such different paths? Well, remember, we all had different…
…it's one of the glories that another, the group of us at Harvard that started the psychedelic drug research, of course, Bob Arandas has laid down a track record. He's, I'd say, the most influential oriental philosopher that America's ever had. Pretty good…
…and they had it in 1981. And I think we should have been spying on the Americans rather than the Russians. First of all, Bob is one of those idiots who's been experimenting on himself for 17 years and wants you to know, I'm okay, you're okay. But my…
…too much of a temptation for anyone with a technology in being to see us like, say, the Americas in 1492. Oh, yeah. Listen, Bob, can I interrupt just one second? You mentioned names. Has it been done yet? I think we should say hello to Aldous Huxley.…
…we should all live by, think for yourself is a fine glory. Thank you. I'd like to thank, although I haven't a chance, Bob Forte and people like the Unitarian Church for doing a magnificent job here. What's interesting is, I get older as a young man,…
…Disneyland. We charge people to come to L.A. So the airport, we charge them $30, $40, $50 a day to be here. In which case, Bob, we wouldn't have that problem of being invaded. It meant that they had to pay to get in. and then there was the Loomis…
…the Jeffersonian notion, and certainly to the spirit of the 60s and 70s, of glasnost and perestroika. They have ripped us off, Bob. Glasnost is mellowing out and playing like it is, and perestroika is a question of authority, and don't follow leaders, and…
…you want to play Warren Beatty? Fine. Or do you want to play Woody Allen's mother? Okay. Okay. All right, you do? All right. Bob, could you repeat what you were doing? Now, after this session, you're going to have a lot of questions on your mind about…
…after this session, you're going to have a lot of questions on your mind about how these ideas got on the screen. So Peter and Bob will come up with microphones over here to answer any questions you have and talk a bit about how this magic was put on…
…looking for is Tony the cocaine dealer, so let's press that, do it after. Yeah, next one. Let's get a reading on this one, Bob. Okay, so we're playing pretty well. We've been getting square remarks, and we want to end up there, so we're at, where's the…
…to forgive my leaving right now, but you stay and work this out. We'll be in touch with David and through Bob. It's been a wonderful experience. We shall continue. More intelligent and more sophisticated than the generation that preceded them. And that…
…drug? Is it still used with anything like the frequency that it appeared to have been used in the 60s and 70s? Well, Bob, you probably know I have not been involved publicly or scientifically with LSD for maybe 15 years, so I don't know. I would…
…And I would even say, in some cases, distinguish people who are pointing this out. What none of us understood in the mid-'60s, Bob, was the baby boom phenomena. We were so naive at Harvard back in the 60s that we assumed that psychedelic plants would be…
…and you should get out there and experience it and try things out and learn these different crafts. You know something? I'm surprised, Bob. I'm 70 years old now and I don't have any pensions or anything like that. I finally got a pension I've been a…
…as a radical? Is that how you characterize yourself? I know many people may think I'm radical, but to tell you the truth, Bob, I think I'm a totally mainline person that just goes along drifting with the waves. I've been involved in every major wave in…
…in the California prison system years before, so the guy says, sorry, Doc, but we have to get... So you know what I did, Bob? I got... The scores on my test showed me to be the most conforming, timid person with a great interest in gardening and…
…techy for them. And the computer people are interested in either business or in games. But one of the things that's happened, Bob, in the last two years, the power of Japanese electronic industry to produce handheld consumer items is out of control. Every…
…to see that as a new television series. We started late. We're going to have a chance to get together again at 6 o'clock for question and answers. So at this moment, I'd like to... Thank you for coming and to ask Bob if he'd take over. Thank you.