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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.
…John Lennon meme means... Human rights and peace. And they adore him. And that's testimony to the power of what Abbie and Jerry and hundreds of us did in the 60s because the big... You know, none of the politicians have understood why. What's happening?…
…Millbrook? Yeah. That's interesting. See, the San Francisco scene, if you look at it, it's incredible. It's so small. You'd have Jerry walking down the street at midnight, saying, Hey, Jerry, come on over. The musicians and the poets and the... Everyone…
…scene, if you look at it, it's incredible. It's so small. You'd have Jerry walking down the street at midnight, saying, Hey, Jerry, come on over. The musicians and the poets and the... Everyone knew each other. North Beach and over there by the Haight,…
…of some schools. East Carolina. Are we still with you? That's a good point. East Carolina, go ahead. Yes, this is Jerry Lauderhaus. at East Carolina University. I'd like to ask the panel what their opinion about the new national 21-year drinking age…
…crossed the river. Helping to free any slaves along the way. So I can never figure out whether I'm Tom and you're Dick or... Jerry. Tom and Jerry, I think it is. Or I'm hooking your Tom or... I always saw you as this captain of the African queen.…
…river. Helping to free any slaves along the way. So I can never figure out whether I'm Tom and you're Dick or... Jerry. Tom and Jerry, I think it is. Or I'm hooking your Tom or... I always saw you as this captain of the African queen. Which is funny…
…their very first gig calling themselves The Grateful Dead at the Acid Test. It was one of those things that during the week, Jerry had come up with the name, and we all thought, hey, great names. On their bus trip, the Merry Pranksters were ultimately…
…were doing just because he had died. You know, a lot of people don't get appreciated until they're gone. And I think that Jerry was appreciated in his lifetime, no doubt about it. Almost too much. It was overappreciated, and maybe if he was not, so…
…who is also a freelance writer for magazines was covering it for this magazine he's just flown up from the lab down there while Jerry Sophan's flying back and he has the latest results Dick, what can you tell us on that? you know the old joke about is…
…to. So, I mean, you must have had kind of a more linear, rigid view of the world, a la, say, 1958, than you do 1995. Jerry, I've been thrown out of, like, four of the top schools by the time I was 20. I was thrown out of the Jesuit school, Holy…
…but even they are aware of the problem. That's the first time I've ever been praising generals. But I'll never do it again, Jerry. Well, no, I understand that. But here's what's... So you're really making the point that At least now the United States is…
…of some kind of change, has to be in the neighborhood among people at a more human, smaller scale. Half of the time, Jerry, but see, the glorious thing there is that everyone in the 21st century is going to have this screen, and there, they're no…
…kind of global cyberspace where you're now part of this larger community, this larger conversation that's going on. I'm not out there, Jerry. They're in me, too. Okay, they're out there, and out there is in there with you. I had a great experience. I've…
…I know what he means. It's one of those things that's kind of hard to put into low-down words. Say it one more time, Jerry. Well, there's no... What I think it means... He said, Marshall McLuhan said, there's no morality at the speed of light. And what…
…That implies, though, that it's the river that's moving, not you. You can jump into the river and just zoom down. I'll drop it now, Jerry. Yeah, well, it's more of a metaphor. I don't want to argue with a wise Greek. No, I only took a year of Greek,…
…outthink and outwit these swollen bureaucracies of government and possibly even of the corporate world as well. And the nice thing about it, Jerry, is that the teams, you know, Stick with them all your life. I'm not going to be an alpha 1-3 all my life.…
…know, where does kind of childish irresponsibility begin in that kind of a process? I've had this conversation a hundred times, dear Jerry. None of this implies that you're not going to see teens. I could say teens. Don't think for yourself, period. Think…
…time to offer an apology for psychedelics, because I don't know if you've talked about this yet on the show, but I heard Jerry on the subject the other day, and he sounded very down on psychedelics, and I thought he didn't really understand the issues…
…on psychedelics, and I thought he didn't really understand the issues involved. First of all... You said something the other day, Jerry, that you said, well, if psychedelics were so great, how come everyone's not enlightened because people used to do them…
…psychedelics were so great, how come everyone's not enlightened because people used to do them all kinds in the 60s? Well, actually... Jerry, you admit that's a very dumb thing you said, don't you? No, what I'm just saying, look, if we figure... Wait a…