c/timothy-leary
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.
…to a motel with Shirley MacLaine on a channel. Notoriously in favor of genocide. You know, he's not friendly. Shirley MacLaine. Bob Dylan. That guy up there. So, Pat Garzantava. Trippling's not here, Lord. God, they got all these Democrats and Liberals and…
…psychedelic drug experience was an information age, and basically most of the philosophy that grew up through the Grateful Dead or Bob Dylan or some of the stuff we were writing, perhaps in more true strength, it's all common sense, it's all common sense…
…in trouble with this. And after I'd finished it, Well, I thought it looked very nice, but for the length. The lyrics of Bob Dylan alone would make a bombshell of a book of social criticism. You know those ominous lines of his? Something is happening and…
…it. And he kept harassing me about it. And I didn't want to stay there, so I left. This announcement really began when Bob Dylan gave marijuana to the Beatles. And the Beatles' music changed, no doubt, and then they took LSD, and the music changed some…
…the people of San Francisco who were very admiring of the birds. The birds took the best of the Beatles and the best of Dylan and synthesized it. And then we sort of developed our own style as things went on. And when we started doing Dylan's songs,…
…we were transmitting messages across the Atlantic via records which was really a lot of fun. It was really a question of everyone admiring Dylan. And we felt kind of honored that he admired us. We'd go to see him as the big guru. Do you think of…
…an end to armies altogether. Because they aren't necessary. If you haven't got private property, you haven't got nothing to defend. Bob Dylan says, if you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. 10th point, free all the people from their leaders.…
…68, within nine months, this new movement of young people kind of celebrating individuality and indicating they want to change. And Dylan was saying they can work at Maggie's Farm no more. Within nine months, they had gotten rid of the president, LBJ.…
…elected as our president the ultimate hippy-dippy, howdy-doody Jimmy Carter. He was kind of a sleeping bag, and he was quoting Bob Dylan, and he played softball with Ralph Nader, talking about lust in his heart. You know, in the grim, Rambo, pitbull, Ollie…
…to it. But that's part of what our work is. That shift of reality started to spread into the world through minstrels like Bob Dylan and like the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones and Big Brother and on and on. And it's gotten…
…genetic role, my historic role, is to... loosen things up and to empower and free the individual. I say empower because, you know, Bob Dylan said, uh, if you're going to be an outlaw, you have to be pretty honest. If you're going to be an individual in…
…the same thing like in Prague. It's all over the world. The new breed, they all learned it, of course, from America. Bob Dylan ain't going to work on Brezhnev's farm no more. But this new breed... There are about 20 magazines, big magazines in Japan,…
…consciousness. And he came to Harvard and led us for a long time. I was tremendously influenced by the music of the 60s. Bob Dylan, for example, was a prophet saying, he laid it right out. We ain't going to work on Maggie's farm no more. That means…
…in Kinnaman Square, that sense of young people getting together. You know that Havel, the president of Czechoslovakia, was quoting Bob Dylan and John Lennon, not Vladimir Lennon. So that the movement of the 60s, which is a classic Renaissance movement, left…