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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.
…I'm performing these days is quantum philosophy. It's a philosophy based upon the theories and the equations of people like Einstein and Planck and Wittgenstein and Heisenberg. come to really study what these men and women are saying, the oldest kind…
…that street wisdom or that feeling that you can use in your daily life, obviously it's not going to do us much good. Einstein, for example, his theory of relativity, It's true that he predicted how a starlight could be bent near Mercury and all that.…
…starlight could be bent near Mercury and all that. And it's true that quantum physics works. I cite Nagasaki Hiroshima. But basically, Einstein was saying that there's no absolute space-time. If I try to measure a star or measure a planet or try to…
…you're changing and I'm changing at the speed of light. Hey, that's the lowest speed we operate on, right? So, basically Einstein is saying that I'm measuring you, you're looking at me, we're changing and the only way to do something about that…
…you, you're looking at me, we're changing and the only way to do something about that is quick feedback. In other words, Einstein is saying nothing more complicated than put yourself in the other person's shoes and exchange notes and try to listen to, you…
…complicated than put yourself in the other person's shoes and exchange notes and try to listen to, you know. That's, of course Einstein got into a lot of trouble when Einstein went around talking about relativity. They didn't come to the door. Who's there?…
…and exchange notes and try to listen to, you know. That's, of course Einstein got into a lot of trouble when Einstein went around talking about relativity. They didn't come to the door. Who's there? Ayatollah Khomeini, hell yeah. And the Pope, uh-huh.…
…bonds and the locks and the handcuffs and the mind-cuffs that are keeping us from speaking for ourselves. Okay, there's Einstein. Heisenberg came along, said, well, it's obvious when you study the scientific situation, you're always just studying your own…
…things are in the universe. No Newtonian stuff. They gave you the real stuff. They're quantum physicists. The first was Einstein. Einstein said, everything is relative. There's no absolute space-time. My measurements of you depend upon where I'm going, how…
…are in the universe. No Newtonian stuff. They gave you the real stuff. They're quantum physicists. The first was Einstein. Einstein said, everything is relative. There's no absolute space-time. My measurements of you depend upon where I'm going, how fast I'm…
…and doing today, everything we're talking about, interpersonal communication, is based upon the practical applications of quantum physics. Einstein said, everything is relative. You can never measure anyone or anything because it's an absolute measurement because…
…Okay, good. Everything that we're going to be talking about today is based on quantum physics, quantum psychology, Einstein, Bohr, Planck, singularity, uniqueness, individual, Every situation is existential. Feedback, relativity, and above all, packaging ideas in…
…before jazz. You had a director of a factory-type orchestra of jazz people who told us immediately how they were acting out, Einstein and Eisenberg. Dr. Spock, and I bet you, you know, that Dr. Spock... wonderful thing about the time we're so lucky to…
…i bet you when dr scott wrote that book He didn't have a clue. None of us knew that he was actually applying Heisenberg and Einstein. He was just writing a common sense. The title of his book was A Common Sense Book of Child and Baby Care. They said…
…and I want to tell you that every time I talk about it, each week it gets a little clearer. For example, Einstein said that everything is relative, that there's no absolute FaceTime, I measure you, but you're changing, you measure me. Yeah, that's common…
…I leave home, which I hate to do, say I'm going to the East Coast to give a lecture. I just understood this about Einstein Relativity. Barbara and I have an arrangement that she knows exactly where I am so that she puts me on the airplane and when…
…where she is so that we would be sending six or seven or eight signals at three thousand miles distance. See that's what Einstein Relativity I've got bologna until you realize how to apply it. It's got the zip, zip, zip, zip pack. Basically, I would…
…Go ahead. Say it. speaking albert einstein was full of okay all right great relatively speaking Another practical aspect of Einstein is this. We've got the feedback thing. Einstein is talking about, in conclusions, all interactivity. Not that we just…
…was full of okay all right great relatively speaking Another practical aspect of Einstein is this. We've got the feedback thing. Einstein is talking about, in conclusions, all interactivity. Not that we just feedback, but we begin to program each other so…
…weeks. And I want to tell you that every time I talk about it, each week, it's a little clearer. For example, Einstein said that everything is relative, that there's no absolute space-time. I measure you, when you're changing, you measure me. Yeah, that's…
…leaving home, which I hate to do. So I'm going to the East Coast to give a lecture. See, I just understood this about Einstein in relativity. Barbara and I have an arrangement that she knows exactly where I am. So she puts me on the airplane. And when…
…Okay. All right. Great. A round of applause for that. T-shirt. Relatively speaking. Relatively speaking. Another practical aspect of Einstein... is this. I got the feedback thing. Einstein is talking about, in computers, we call it interactivity. It means…
…applause for that. T-shirt. Relatively speaking. Relatively speaking. Another practical aspect of Einstein... is this. I got the feedback thing. Einstein is talking about, in computers, we call it interactivity. It means not that we just feedback, but we begin…
…What did you say? Don't you have another answer? I got a question this time. Okay, now tell us one more time about Einstein. Okay, Albert Einstein, because he said that... There are three dimensions of time and one dimension of space. He's all full of…
…to penetrate deeper and deeper into the mysteries of energy around us, he began to flip out. He began to flip out. Look at Einstein. E equals mc squared. Come on, you mean that that's all energy? Wow! Einstein did it without LSD. You have been led to…
…flip out. He began to flip out. Look at Einstein. E equals mc squared. Come on, you mean that that's all energy? Wow! Einstein did it without LSD. You have been led to believe, most of you, that religion is something that's serious and something that's…
…outs, an outcast, a rebel. So I glorify... What kind of jobs have philosophers had? They've been on the run. You know, Socrates, Einstein was on the run, Freud. Not that I'm comparing myself to him, but... I don't hear any sound. Lost the sound. Here we…
…as a maniac, a dangerous lunatic, and chasing him the hell out of the country. And if the Nazis could have caught Einstein, they probably would have dragged him back to exterminate him. Nixon had his police chase leery all over the world. I think…
…work. action, reaction, observation, all that. Sorry, sorry, Newton. Newton's great. But I think you have to face the fact that Einstein said first, everything's relative. It means that there's no absolute space and time, and that I'm moving in a certain…
…Oh, that's good. There goes the solid world of the Bible and of all the fundamentalism that gets gone if you let Einstein run it around loose. And imagine, for example, at the turn of the century, a typical American, remember that painting by Grant…
…Great Einsteinian physics, you know that thing about the persistence of memory, the melting watches, remember that? That's right out of Einstein. So, look, Farmer Brown saying, well, mother, these guys are making a lot of money, so there must be some money.…
…think is the most fundamental shift, which was the shift in our perception of reality. What happened to us was what I think Einstein did to Newton. It went from treating a reality as absolute to seeing that all realities are relative. And the minute you…
…that on the news at night, like Sonoma State, like one in London, and yet that kid has the same brain power as Einstein. It's the programming that fucks it up. It's the programming that makes it different. The beggars in Calcutta, starving, same brain as…
…programming that fucks it up. It's the programming that makes it different. The beggars in Calcutta, starving, same brain as Einstein. Murderous thugs like Saddam Hussein and George Bush, you know? They're the same brain as Einstein. It's the programming that…
…in Calcutta, starving, same brain as Einstein. Murderous thugs like Saddam Hussein and George Bush, you know? They're the same brain as Einstein. It's the programming that fucks them up. So now, we ask the question, who programs your brain? Can we have the…
…And we're actually finding ways where the man in the street is actually beginning to be able to think in the way that Einstein did. And it's taken years, but there are vast, vast implications for just being able to think and conceptualize your reality in…
…which is religious teacher or shaman, You have to look back. We have our tradition, just like the physicist knows about Einstein and Bohr and Newton. I have studied the earlier adepts in my profession, which is the changing of consciousness. I don't…
…born into. So the concept of multiple reality was a concept whose time had come in the 1960s. It goes back to Einstein with his theory of relativity and the multiplicity of positions and perceptions of the observer. It was connected with Heisenberg and…
…or aphrodisiac is the ultimate intelligence or ultimate is the intelligent aphrodisiac. You can play it any way you want because we're Einstein in here. But everything I try to do tonight and I continue to do in my running around the country is, number…
…is alive. Number two was everything moves. I think that's hot. Number three was it comes in waves. Now tell that to Einstein and Albert will say, you bet. In fact, tell any quantum physicist those three little definitions of anything, and they're going to…
…was some Newtonian notion that God is a big accountant, you know, and the Newtonian action-reaction thing, conservation of energy, which Einstein repealed in my book. Now we begin to realize that pleasure is an art. Pleasure is very complex. And again, like…
…What'd you say? Don't you have another answer? I got a question this time. Okay, now tell us one more time about Einstein. Okay, Albert Einstein, because he said that... There are three dimensions of time and one dimension of space. He's all full of…
…you. I want to thank you. You've become our hero. Yes, yes. Right on. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I attack Einstein. I said last week in this room, very room, up here, I said, how come Einstein, I know you'll agree with me, comes out…
…Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I attack Einstein. I said last week in this room, very room, up here, I said, how come Einstein, I know you'll agree with me, comes out with this line, God does not play dice with the universe. And I said, God, she…