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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.
…my mission for the last eight years has been to develop the transmission equipment of LSD. LSD and drugs like that can activate Buddha, turn on your inner equipment, and you need some way to express it. In the first months, of our scientific research in…
…looked around in India, being there a year and a half, and he said, Thomas Edison can do more to illuminate America than the Buddha can right now. And he came back and got Job and Tari, and within a year, he produced the, in the, why they call…
…can be. It can be frivolous, like the 49ers, you know, compared with the Raiders, or it can be very serious. It can be Buddha and Christ. What do you really think about them? Or the most important topic, yourself and how you'd like to be. And then the…
…while. Anyone that came to the door, you know, who's there? Jesus Christ. Okay, check your cross and come on in. Who's there? Buddha. Come on in, Buddha. You don't like that? Who's there? UFO. Okay, come on in. Right. We were ready to listen, learn from…
…the door, you know, who's there? Jesus Christ. Okay, check your cross and come on in. Who's there? Buddha. Come on in, Buddha. You don't like that? Who's there? UFO. Okay, come on in. Right. We were ready to listen, learn from everyone. Interesting thing,…
…is prayer. Our prayer for tonight is taken from the first words spoken by Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, just after his illumination. The Buddha, you know, was a man who dropped out, turned on, and tuned in. And since organs came alive, he centered them. He…
…lunar point of flame to come and opened his eyes and looked around him and said wonder of all wonders All beings are the Buddha. Wonder of all wonders, all men are the Buddha. All women are the Buddha. I am the Buddha. And wonder of all wonders, each…
…his eyes and looked around him and said wonder of all wonders All beings are the Buddha. Wonder of all wonders, all men are the Buddha. All women are the Buddha. I am the Buddha. And wonder of all wonders, each of you is the Buddha. Many of you here…
…him and said wonder of all wonders All beings are the Buddha. Wonder of all wonders, all men are the Buddha. All women are the Buddha. I am the Buddha. And wonder of all wonders, each of you is the Buddha. Many of you here tonight have never had a…
…all wonders All beings are the Buddha. Wonder of all wonders, all men are the Buddha. All women are the Buddha. I am the Buddha. And wonder of all wonders, each of you is the Buddha. Many of you here tonight have never had a psychedelic experience. I…
…there. There's no more time in that sense. I'm making all sorts of plans to be reincarnated, not by lighting candles to the Buddha, but by studying the advanced science of our time. biology of aging and I belong to two chronic societies so that I have…
…of the message that we are attempting to communicate to you these days, the truth that you are your Christ, you are your Buddha, you are your God, you are your love. All right, well indeed, we very much have enjoyed talking with you this afternoon.…
…will aid in the elimination of suffering, ensures survival. The brain perceives this as good. Here's the formula. Life's suffering, Buddha even says, so it was his first noble truth, right? Painkillers kill pain and suffering. Which makes it instant bliss,…
…the fifth and sixth centuries B.C., there was Pythagoras in Greece, there was Lao Tzu in China. And there was a Buddha in India, all saying the same thing, yin-yang, cycles, changes. Nuclear physics really was seated there, but of course they couldn't,…
…stage. The same thing is true, by the way, of Buddhism. I often say, you know, Buddhism was based on the discovery by the Buddha, who was a prince. Now, by prince, he means he was a middle-class young man that went to college because his family kept…
…as most college students are kept away from the facts of life. They discovered, you know, that great triple discovery of the Buddha, which led to a philosophy that's very powerful. He discovered death. He saw a dead man. He discovered illness. He never…
…impotence, and death. Now, that was a very powerful psychology for pre-scientific species of domesticated primates. But now, if the Buddha were alive today, he'd be majoring in biogenetics, and he would be reading Scientific America, and he would realize that…
…ancient religious stories. We've just finished doing the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. In the present time we're doing the illumination of the Buddha. These great religious figures of the past are men who have been turned on and who have worked out a new…
…to have any more martyrs. You see, a thousand years ago, someone stumbled on a new method of turning on. Maybe it was the Buddha over in India. His original method was the sit-down. He sat under that tree and stayed there till the sit-in. He found a…
…sit-in. He found a method and he came back and he taught it. Well, by the time that method and the name of the Buddha reached the Mediterranean, it was maybe a hundred years. Slave galleys and folk singers and it's always the young and the lower class…
…it's always the young and the lower class and the alienated that carry the message. By the time it got over the Mediterranean, the Buddha was perhaps two or three generations dead. So then you set him up as a special person who had a virgin birth or a…
…and come out with your own answers. Now, you're going to come out with pretty much the same answers that Christ and the Buddha came up with, because that's the science of it. There are certain basic truths, but you can't take them in cliche, static…
…was, why is it that for eight hours a person can be shooting up there in all sorts of cosmic revelations, great Buddha enlightenments, and then the next day we're back in the same old neurological straitjacket? Well, I think this is easily explained, that…
…we are developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it. Well, trained minds remember, and the words of the Buddha were all remembered. Yeah, oral tradition. And the words of the Buddha came down for 200 years before anybody put it in…
…it. Well, trained minds remember, and the words of the Buddha were all remembered. Yeah, oral tradition. And the words of the Buddha came down for 200 years before anybody put it in writing because people were paying attention to what he said. And only…
…the Niseis, they can't stand it when the priests chant the sutras in Sino-Japanese language for the old students. They want to hear, Buddha loves me, this I know, for the sutra tells me so. They want to look as much as they can like Protestants because…
…that's exotic to them. We're writing our new myth. Yes. But we all... We have to in our sessions relive the Christ thing, the Buddha thing, the Krishna thing. We are creating a new myth. Right, you are. And we won't have saints. But we do. We do it…
…This is for fun. We can do celebrities, you can do sports, you can do thrilling things like you can compare Jesus or Buddha or Mohammed or Jerry Falwell. There's one aspect of this which is very exciting. We call it the Marvin Mitchelson special. The…
…and individual about which drug, who you are at your life right now, what you want to do with your life. Question. Buddha had his first enlightenment eating mushrooms under the Bodhi tree. Next question. for the first uh... position that was presented here…
…Well, on average, we'd have ten guys say, hey, I'm Jesus Christ. They'd say, come in, Jesus, check the cross out there. I'm Buddha, hey, come in, Buddha. I'm a UFO, hey, come on in, UFO. We tried protein, we tried vegetables, we tried meat, we tried…
…we'd have ten guys say, hey, I'm Jesus Christ. They'd say, come in, Jesus, check the cross out there. I'm Buddha, hey, come in, Buddha. I'm a UFO, hey, come on in, UFO. We tried protein, we tried vegetables, we tried meat, we tried yoga, we tried you…
…all men are the Buddha. All women are the Buddha. I am the Buddha. And wonder of all wonders, each of you is the Buddha. Many of you here tonight have never had a psychedelic experience. I must warn you, this is not entertainment. This is our public…
…gets confused and murders the woman he loves. And then we also did one based on the life of the enlightenment of Buddha and the temptation of the beautiful dancing girls and all the demons attacking them. And we would have visual artists, photographers,…
…visual artists, photographers, and filmmakers do the original and sound. Then we came to making this film, the spectacle story and the Buddha story was combined. Well, that's why we have the scene. It was actually filmed in a cafe, all over a cafe in…