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.
…visionary system is gushing out. Now that's a great metaphor for the 19th century thermodynamics. Civilization. If you think of Freud, this is the same metaphors of love, because they're looking for best metaphors they could come up with to describe…
…a kind of mirror. The reason why he described that, the mirror was an extremely fashionable new invention. Then the mind that Freud described, if you remember, was a magic lantern. That's where projection comes from. This was the latest thing. That was an…
…anger. There's completion in sadness. And it's because we cut off our feelings that we get set up for addiction. Well, Dr. Freud said, if you don't pay your medical bill, you don't get well. We have here another question from DeKalb College. Hello? DeKalb…
…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 go. We should start that…
…So it's part of the tradition. You have to go in exile. And I studied the histories, like guidebooks. Voltaire and even Freud got kicked out of the... And if you're really saying something that's going to change things, you're going to have to jump…
…pain opposes life. The elimination of pain is what we want. That's what the pleasure principle is. That's what Freud meant. All instinct is geared not toward long-term survival, but toward short-term survival. Prevention... of suffering, or anything that…
…I'm really breathless in admiration. And the more I understand about imprinting, the shrewder and the more creative I see that Freud was. He was a brilliant man. But the thing which excites us these days is the corollary concept of psychedelic…
…a gap between the abilities of a computer and those of a human. Most humans don't do so well at that either, according to Freud. I don't think it's necessary to decry that gap, and certainly I would say that one shouldn't say about it that, well, so…