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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.
…ocean filled with infinities of knowledge and vision and beauties, and the mind is like a faucet. When you take Mesmer and LSD, you open up the faucet and all of this unconscious visionary system is gushing out. Now that's a great metaphor for the…
…and which we can now learn to transmit. So 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…
…we can now learn to transmit. So 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…
…That's a good question. The same thing happened in the 60s when we belatedly started exploring the mind with psychedelic drugs like LSD, none of us knew at the time that the CIA had been doing 15 years beforehand. The CIA spent about $25 million…
…none of us knew at the time that the CIA had been doing 15 years beforehand. The CIA spent about $25 million on research with LSD. There's a book called That's a dream by Martin Lee. He was a speaker here a few weeks ago. There you go, yeah. And…
…but to decriminalize and regulate. Let the government regulate, let the government, you know you go to the state store, you're getting LSD that's pure. And they should also have de-glamorized drugs. Make it hard to get. You have to stand in line. Make it…
…talk about XCC or 2C-D or ketamine, there's no way, there's no existential semantic thing we're talking about. There's been no LSD in this country since 1968 when they criminalized it. Unless you were very, very... well connected with top chemists. 99% of…
…in this country since 1968 when they criminalized it. Unless you were very, very... well connected with top chemists. 99% of all the LSD so-called has been used. You know what it is. Now, it's true that the chemists that made LSD tended on the whole to…
…top chemists. 99% of all the LSD so-called has been used. You know what it is. Now, it's true that the chemists that made LSD tended on the whole to be incredibly pure and innocent because for one reason, you're likely to get dose when you made it.…
…with A, right, Jeff? Right, Jeff? I mean, I think that there will, by the way, see, we're told that there's an enormous amount of LSD being used right now. I wouldn't know, but I thought about some of these colleges, and they say that a lot of LSD is…
…amount of LSD being used right now. I wouldn't know, but I thought about some of these colleges, and they say that a lot of LSD is being used. Yeah? That's, how can you know? How can you say, how can you possibly sit here in New York City and say…
…That's, how can you know? How can you say, how can you possibly sit here in New York City and say that many people are getting LSD? How do you know? Have you taken it along? I'll tell you, I was in a van at a New York State college, And the kids…
…I don't hang out with those guys a lot. They were different styles of life. That's alright. I don't want to be about LSD. But I want to tell you, the Grateful Dead, for what, 25 years now, have been running a full-bore, full-tilt pagan religion. In…
…run on the planet Earth right now, I would be considered as the leading advocate of crack cocaine, heroin, weed, ice, marijuana, LSD, yeah. I'm considered the number one drug advocate. But I don't deserve it. I don't deserve that. That's speed that you…
…mind then, didn't you? I still got it. Yeah. Well, and you're responsible for carrying it, you know, you're the Johnny Appleseed here at LSD, you know, planting it every way you got a chance. Well, I sure did, but I don't think it was a credit thing.…
…in the totality. So, you know, I can't think of how it could have worked out otherwise. I must confess that when I studied LSD And then I heard there was getting out on the streets. I said, this will never sell. It's too intense. People will be too…
…but it's not a popular street drug anymore the way it once was. I think a fair number of people are still taking LSD, don't you think? Yeah, but they're stuck on the street. You can't call that LSD. Al, perhaps you haven't been assiduous enough in…
…a fair number of people are still taking LSD, don't you think? Yeah, but they're stuck on the street. You can't call that LSD. Al, perhaps you haven't been assiduous enough in getting the good stuff. I can't believe you failed to find the good stuff.…
…looking at the recent vintages to see how they're coming along. Do you think the hippie movement would have come about without LSD or had its impact? I think that would mean a totally different impact. What? It would mean a totally different impact. I…
…I, the acid guru. The primary Timothy that will pass through the mainstream media is the gleeful, irresponsible purveyor of LSD to an unsuspecting American public. Not that people who believe in this cartoon version of Timothy are necessarily against him.…
…you're tired and a bit run down, can't seem to get your feet off the ground, baby, you ought to try a little bit of LSD. Only if you want to. Shake your head, it'll rattle your brain, make you act just a bit insane, give you all the psychic energy…
…rattle your brain, make you act just a bit insane, give you all the psychic energy you need to eat flowers and kiss babies. LSD for you and me. And the fuck chair, which I think embodies all the different emotions that we feel today. If there's a…
…And the reason why is because he helped everybody expand their mind to another horizon, whether it's just mushrooms or nitrous oxide, even LSD. I mean, you had to get there somehow. So it's just like when he used to tell me, and he'd sit there and…
…I have a lot of regrets, personal regrets, emotional regrets, as we all do. People say, you know, do I regret about taking LSD? My answer is, two things I regret. I should have taken more psychedelic drugs, and I should have made love more. So that's…
…in the 60s, our next guest coined that famous phrase as he encouraged us to expand our minds with a controversial drug called LSD. Twenty years later, he's still after us to explore our minds and expand them, except now, instead of LSD, it's more likely…
…controversial drug called LSD. Twenty years later, he's still after us to explore our minds and expand them, except now, instead of LSD, it's more likely to be with IBM. Would you welcome Dr. Timothy Leary. So you're really, welcome back, first of all.…
…of a whole genre of electronic books that I think make us smarter and happier and hopefully funnier. Now, have you put anything about LSD in your program, Mind Mirror? No, I started my LSD research 26 years ago at Harvard, as you all know, and I have…
…us smarter and happier and hopefully funnier. Now, have you put anything about LSD in your program, Mind Mirror? No, I started my LSD research 26 years ago at Harvard, as you all know, and I have not been doing research on that. Naturally, people are…
…about the 60s, and that's part of it. I just thought you might have put something in there. I mean, if somebody had experienced LSD, say, back in the 60s, and with your Mind Mirror program wanted to say... Or on the Mind Mirror program say, what would…
…want beer. They wanted something better. They wanted technicolor experiences. We would spend days and days of preparing someone for an LSD experience. You see, these plants have been used for 25,000 years by native tribes, pagan tribes. And when the tribe…
…by native tribes, pagan tribes. And when the tribe has these possession or trance experiences where they get very, very loaded on LSD or mushrooms or peyote, there's a powerful group support. Yes, go for it. Bark like a dog. Feel the power of whatever…
…materialism, and a consumer, a consumer option is to turn off materialism, you know, in any case it's the option. Then, so LSD had been around, peyote had been around, the mushroom's been around for hundreds or thousands of years. But the reason that…
…because kids were brought up being able to dial the boob tube, were quite ready. And I think that to really understand LSD and what it does to the brain, you have to have some... intuitive feeling for computers and for video electronic communication. They…
…be hanging around Silicon Valley, and there was all this interest in electronics. So he and Steve Wozniak, who was another LSD veteran, developed the personal computer. The personal computer is part of the next level of intelligence that we're talking about.…
…So that I see the development of computers, personal computers, and video games as being a logical extension of the use of LSD as Beatles records. I think that they really led... I think once you had that generation of young people that learned how…
…artistic but then you have to do it with somebody else and the same thing to the computers that first it's um You take LSD and you trip out or you watch television and you're just kind of... It's passive. And it's great because it's jamming your brain…
…new aphrodisiacs, in order to hang a new molecule on a masculine, atom on a masculine molecule, or the problem of getting you an LSD dose that's 10 times stronger and lasts for 15 minutes. Who are they going to try it out on? Well, are there any…
…days, we were dealing with primitive and crude instruments. I remember we were like Wilbur and Orville Wright with those early LSD experiences. Hey, Wilbur, you all right? There goes Aldous Huggins. Aldous, you all right? Watch that tree, Aldous. There goes…
…Miss Victoria Loose Leaf. As she rings out the very old and the dull, she ushers in a fabulous new era with LSD guru, author, party animal, and the perennially cosmic Dr. Timothy Leary. Together they are old anxiety. Now here's Miss Victoria with what's…
…getting actually good drugs or good abortions that's the tragedy of of government's policy. I took something that they told me was LSD last Sunday night at the Grateful Dead concert. I mean, the Grateful Dead. Are you at Deadhead? Well, yeah, beyond that.…
…beware, don't let it happen. And I was considered pretty radical, for example, saying that marijuana should not be criminalized, that LSD should be turned over to the government to be treated like fissionable material. In the subsequent years, most of my…
…that the news media just totally blew out of proportion what you were actually trying to achieve? Did you not advocate LSD? No, I never advocated drugs. I defended drugs, different drugs, against unscientific charges. But as soon as you start saying…
…that. And I'll look right into the eyes of everyone that's watching this program and say that I don't urge you to take LSD in particular. LSD is the most powerful substance that a human being has ever developed for influencing the mind. I've used the…
…right into the eyes of everyone that's watching this program and say that I don't urge you to take LSD in particular. LSD is the most powerful substance that a human being has ever developed for influencing the mind. I've used the comparison of nuclear…
…will bring about changes. But for anyone to listen to this broadcast, to get any other message that I'm telling you, stay away from LSD. In the first place, And 99% of what's called LSD is male LSD. And 99% of the things that are said about LSD are…
…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 more, and it sent signals to the people of San Francisco who were very admiring of the…
…quite happy in our little ruts right up until I think 1966, when this experience happened. Until October 1966, possession of LSD had not been a criminal offense. Since World War II, doctors have conducted experiments into the therapeutic potential of the…
…into the therapeutic potential of the drug. But beyond medicine, some of the guinea pigs were saying they'd had a good time, and LSD was spreading to home and college. Well, what's so great about it? Down there. Any... I really... I hope this isn't being…
…Kerouac over there? Down there? He was an interesting guy. Yeah, I met him and hung out with him in New York. We took LSD together. Uh-huh. And at... About dawn, it turned out we were the only cigarette smokers. So Jack and I were still pretty stoned.…
…American society for about three or four years, I'm a frontier scout. I'm looking at things that are coming on. I didn't invent the LSD. You could see that it was coming. A big wave was going to happen. The big even generation. I didn't invent any of…
…too, the drug war continues. And the first casualty of war, as we all know, is the truth. It wasn't until I took LSD for the first time that I started asking questions. fundamental questions about the world. Questions like, why does the economy have to…
…forever? I also looked into the story of this remarkable drug, the 60s, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Albert Hoffman, the father of LSD. Whether or not Albert Hoffman's discovery of LSD-25 was an accident, it is no accident that there are over 2,000 prisoners…
…he left with his mother and his girlfriend to drive himself to Arizona and turn himself in to serve a 10-year jail sentence for LSD. The sentences are based on the amount of LSD sold. The amount sold is based on the carrier weight. This is one of the…
…himself to Arizona and turn himself in to serve a 10-year jail sentence for LSD. The sentences are based on the amount of LSD sold. The amount sold is based on the carrier weight. This is one of the issues we've been very concerned about. Whether your…
…LSD sold. The amount sold is based on the carrier weight. This is one of the issues we've been very concerned about. Whether your LSD is on paper or in sugar cubes or in orange juice, they actually weigh the medium that it was transported on and use…
…soon. We're just cruising around. This is Alan Cohen. He did the original human being. January 14, 1967. Rock and roll, LSD, Tim Leary, free food. And lots of fun and excitement and thoughtfulness, I guess, huh? Thoughtfulness, meditation, prayer. Show us a…
…been left as one of those not categorized drugs. And it was being proposed to be put on the list with heroin and LSD. And a bunch of people, young pharmacists type people, went and said, this isn't really right. This material is used very safely. It's…
…went and said, this isn't really right. This material is used very safely. It's very short-acting. It doesn't have all the problems with LSD. But they lost their case. It was quite a movement, and they came to me for help. People teaching in, as I say,…
…that had taken it. I took quite a lot of it. I thought it was very fine material. We synthesized it. Excellent. Shorter, because LSD takes so long here. Twelve hours. And then we found out there were two guys in Hungary that were doing it. DMT, it's…
…with a genital option attached. I feel like a Chrysler salesman. The effects still seem to be fairly descriptive of LSD. Do you think they're superior? They're different. There's no hallucinations. There's no wild kaleidoscope. There's no going back in…
…to do with, are there combinations of drugs? Yes, and intelligent people are doing that. I talk to many people that are using LSD, and then they'll take ketamine during the LSD experience and have that experience and then come back to the LSD state. So…
…and intelligent people are doing that. I talk to many people that are using LSD, and then they'll take ketamine during the LSD experience and have that experience and then come back to the LSD state. So that, yes, intelligent people are... Because, you…
…are using LSD, and then they'll take ketamine during the LSD experience and have that experience and then come back to the LSD state. So that, yes, intelligent people are... Because, you see, what you're doing... I mean, the drug is not important. It's…
…day, the experience of... Has anyone ever been at a... had some sort of or metaphysical or whatever experience or inner experience on LSD or with something simple like what we were talking at the end of the day where it just is making sense to you…
…streets of Zurich. And the buildings are breathing and coughing. He's a great hero because he's exactly what you want the inventor of LSD to look like. He is Swiss, and he's nice looking. He's 80 years old, and he's running around swimming and dancing. I…
…effects and sound. a sensory overload, as we saw in this last movie. And by 67, the climate had really changed. LSD was made illegal, and the government was really getting into repressing the psychedelic movement. So when the movie actually was shot,…
…have waxed so furiously in this country as that caused by Dr. Timothy Leary, his associates, and their espousal of the drug LSD. He has started a new religion based on his beliefs, religious beliefs, and his memory. Millions of people have heard about…
…turned on to an in-drop app. It provides a wide audience with a chance to witness a strange new religion at LSD Palace. The visual and audio means the film's audience participated in the visual hallucinogenic trip, in quotes, an experience called, by…
…so I encourage it and support it and identify with it and feel that it still has a very definite function the role of LSD and the psychedelic chemicals has changed in the past ten years my teacher in India said an interesting thing Haridas Baba a very…
…my teacher in India said an interesting thing Haridas Baba a very pure Brahmin who uses no chemicals when I asked him what LSD was said LSD is like a Christ in America America is a most materialistic country and the young people wanted their avatar in…
…in India said an interesting thing Haridas Baba a very pure Brahmin who uses no chemicals when I asked him what LSD was said LSD is like a Christ in America America is a most materialistic country and the young people wanted their avatar in the form of…
…in America America is a most materialistic country and the young people wanted their avatar in the form of a material and thus LSD. If they have not tasted how they will know question mark. It seems to me that that statement is a very powerful format…
…a very powerful format statement for a psychedelic review which brings together science and religion technology and religion and shows the role LSD is playing the work the work that's now being done by Gordon Wasson in his for example his new book Soma…
…to see on the screen home movies and slide projections of little travels and trips that we take. The slides give you the LSD experience from the inside, and the movies present the observer's view of an LSD trip from the outside. The movies are unedited…
…that we take. The slides give you the LSD experience from the inside, and the movies present the observer's view of an LSD trip from the outside. The movies are unedited film that's been shot minute after minute, hour after hour, during LSD sessions. I…
…view of an LSD trip from the outside. The movies are unedited film that's been shot minute after minute, hour after hour, during LSD sessions. I lit a candle to open our ceremony tonight, again to remind us who we are and where we came from and…
…matter of fact, that's a question that often occurs to many of us these days. Maybe man isn't ready for powerful chemicals like LSD and the many new ones that are coming. Maybe man's little mind isn't ready at this moment in evolution to deal with too…
…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 mildly hypocritical and…
…learn that it's foolish to do a double-blind control placebo experiment in which you have half the people in the room on an LSD and the other half not because After five minutes, no one's fooling anyone. In these first two or three years we performed…
…food. Sure. You can't advocate. or take drugs or not take drugs. Well, then you're making a contradictory statement. How can you use LSD intelligently if you keep using it all the time? You finally become a blob and... My dear friend, that's not true. I…
…that's not true. I could present to you 500 of the most intelligent, good-looking, successful scientists in the country that use LSD regularly, like once a month. the way they use a microscope, the way they use a telescope. An intelligent person does…
…in the relation of the individual to the state. Then came Tim, talking about, guess what? If you think he was talking about LSD, however, you would be mistaken. He took on a broader topic. the extension of human consciousness in the ways in which it…
…yours? How do all these ideas, extraordinary ideas, come in? At least this one on the ice cube, I remember very well. I was giving LSD to this friend, and I had this feeling, I just practically was in a toilet of water, you know, a river, And he was…
…American society. In the next five or ten years, we expect that between 20 and 30 million Americans will be using LSD regularly in their spiritual development and in their psychological growth. In the 1960s, Timothy Leary brought psychedelic drugs out of…
…laboratories and onto the campuses of America. The greatest pushers in this country today are the missionaries who make and distribute LSD because they are convinced it's a wonderful way. As that poisonous, evil man, Dr. Timothy Leary, has said, It is a…
…drop out. Leary became the outspoken leader of a generation that wasn't even his own. The kids who take LSD aren't going to fight your wars, middle-class, middle-aged, whiskey-drinking generals. They're not going to join your corporations, middle-class,…
…virtually rent-free, for the next four years. By now, Learie had moved on to a more powerful, but still legal, psychedelic drug, LSD. LSD was guaranteed to really take you to a place that was very much more of a rebirth, death and rebirth experience,…
…rent-free, for the next four years. By now, Learie had moved on to a more powerful, but still legal, psychedelic drug, LSD. LSD was guaranteed to really take you to a place that was very much more of a rebirth, death and rebirth experience, which…
…brain is chaos. Or offering an explanation of the inside of the human brain. The one-time UC Berkeley psychology professor turned LSD guru to one generation and mega-villain to another remains a polarizing figure to this day. You can now explore this man's…
…win it we can't you know the bosnian the serbs will fight forever it would give them money sending the u.n troops Give them LSD. Let's stop the thing. Fly over it. LSD fly-bys. When each of you look into your own lives and your hearts, you will…
…serbs will fight forever it would give them money sending the u.n troops Give them LSD. Let's stop the thing. Fly over it. LSD fly-bys. When each of you look into your own lives and your hearts, you will appreciate how he has touched so many millions…
…this spaceship a better place. So was Jack Kerouac over there? I met him and hung out with him in New York. We took LSD together. Uh-huh. And at about dawn, it turned out we were the only cigarette smokers. So Jack and I were still pretty stoned. We…
…dazzling, throbbing, radiant core. Pure, pulsing, exulting light. Sound. Touch. Cell. Seed. Sense. Soul. Sleep. Glory. God. The hard-eyed guy. LSD is the most powerful substance that the human being has ever developed for influencing the mind. I've used the…
…just because he introduced me to the mushrooms. And he also got me fired from Harvard. For the last six years, I have taken LSD and other such drugs regularly. I consider it a part of my spiritual practice, just so I would go to church once a week.…
…2nd, front page, Wall Street Journal, column one, a big article about Jeremy Mayer and her plurality. And the headline said, electronic LSD question mark. That's a picture of Jeremy Mayer in his red box. And the sixth paragraph down the first page, it…
…Jeremy Mayer in his red box. And the sixth paragraph down the first page, it quotes me as saying, this is better than LSD, it's addictive, but it's legal. And the same week, check out the facts, Max, the same week, Forbes magazine, Forbes. Your father…
…these new simulated artificial reality is going to be more exciting, and it quotes me as saying again that it's better than LSD. These things, there's a genetic and historical thing going on here. There's not an accident that we started all this in the…
…Great bunch of people out there. Thanks for having me there. I had a lot of fun. Well, today we're going to catch up with LSD guru from the 60s, Timothy Leary, is here. We'll find out just what all that LSD meant to him and how he also sees the…
…fun. Well, today we're going to catch up with LSD guru from the 60s, Timothy Leary, is here. We'll find out just what all that LSD meant to him and how he also sees the 80s these days. He had some real positive and real specific ideas about the 60s…
…having me here. Thank you, thank you. Now, a lot of people say Timothy Leary right away, and the first thing we think is LSD, because you actually took LSD when it was legal? Uh-huh, yeah. Okay, now this was part of what? An experiment? Tell us about…
…thank you. Now, a lot of people say Timothy Leary right away, and the first thing we think is LSD, because you actually took LSD when it was legal? Uh-huh, yeah. Okay, now this was part of what? An experiment? Tell us about it just a little bit. Well,…
…Which I'm totally... I have nothing to do with these drugs at all. I have a beer now and then, but... And the... No more LSD? I still, as an adult... will use any psychedelic drug I want to anytime I want to because I don't want to have Ed Neese…
…speed, pills, downers, tranquilizers. You've never heard me associated with this stuff. I've done a lot of research on psychedelic bitches. Marijuana, LSD, used to improve my mind. So to get my mind from where I am here to over there. Not drugs. Where? I…
…glider. Maybe a glider. Yeah. Or a rocket. Or a rocket. How did, you know, Millbrook, you did a lot of experiments on LSD at Millbrook. This was just the kind of academy they had, where it was spiritual discovery or something. Something like that. And I…
…But is it true that before you killed animals to eat them, you used to have to take drugs with the animals? Yes, you did LSD with the animals. Or is this just hype? We did not. We did not. We never killed any animals. You never killed any animals.…
…RPM means realities per minute. I calculate that I'm using my brain 50 times more efficiently than I was in 1960, before I took LSD, and when I had one phone that dialed like this, and one black and white TV. You can imagine what I've gotten. I mean,…
…Nina Grabois. Would you stand up and say hello? Nina was with us at Millbrook, New York in the 60s. She opened up the LSD rescue mission or launching pad in New York in the 60s, and for many years she's been in Santa Cruz where she gives workshops…
…were to London and what the Grateful Dead is to San Francisco. The Doors were to L.A., huh? And what MTV was to LSD, right? Yeah, right, all right. Okay, thanks. Shake it, brother. Okay, I'm a little unprepared, obviously. I need two increments, a stool…
…sitting in a room inside discussing the matter. Rupert, Terrence, I'm Ralph. So creation, imagination, my mask is chaos. In my early LSD experiences, I seemed to see motifs and structures that gave me an interest in Tibetan Buddhism. And I went to India…
…Harvard, there was a colony of very intelligent people here in Hollywood It was doctors who were sponsoring it, who were giving LSD sessions to most of the top actors and directors. And why? Because it opens the mind. It's like booting up or activating…
…MK Ultra. They were trying to find the perfect mind control weapon through a psychoactive drug known as lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The CIA knew very little about LSD in the 60s. It was invented in 1947 by Dr. Albert Hoffman. he found that…
…find the perfect mind control weapon through a psychoactive drug known as lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The CIA knew very little about LSD in the 60s. It was invented in 1947 by Dr. Albert Hoffman. he found that it had a remarkable effect on the…
…by Dr. Albert Hoffman. he found that it had a remarkable effect on the mind. The CIA thought they could keep the LSD phenomenon secret. However, its introduction to society inspired an entire generation of people who were soon to unite in a worldwide…
…counterpart. Both men were revolutionaries, inspired by a phenomenon that arrived on the doorstep of the 1960s. A phenomenon known as LSD. LSD is the most powerful substance that the human being has ever developed for influencing the mind. I've used the…
…Both men were revolutionaries, inspired by a phenomenon that arrived on the doorstep of the 1960s. A phenomenon known as LSD. LSD is the most powerful substance that the human being has ever developed for influencing the mind. I've used the comparison of…
…interpret as distinct from the heart. Interfacing the idea. That's, of course, the terror that many of us felt in the early LSD days. You realize it's the brain that's making it all up. And that it's the ultimate source. Everything you know, experience,…
…act? The little lines that you're doing right now? I'm trying it out here. Oh, because if this is it, I'd go back to LSD. No, just kidding. I'm just going around. Do you ever look back and wish maybe that you hadn't done some of the things that…
…during the 60s, either by taking drugs or not taking drugs. You have to keep score on these things. I believe that LSD is the safest recreational thing around, safer than jogging or skiing. I regret very much that there have been some accidents. And…
…some accidents. And the reason for any accidents is because they didn't listen to what we were saying. We were not advocating LSD. We were telling them, it's your brain. Your brain's perfect. Be very careful what you put in your brain. Know what you're…
…small. One man on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go. You think someday that policeman will be taking LSD? I think within 15 or 20 years, everyone who wants to deepen his spiritual and psychological possibilities will be taking LSD, including…
…LSD? I think within 15 or 20 years, everyone who wants to deepen his spiritual and psychological possibilities will be taking LSD, including the police, including senators, and we expect perhaps the next president of the United States. There you go. Talking…
…Marshall McLuhan. How many of you know Marshall McLuhan? I mean... He used to play with words, and he'd say, you know the LSD you got, like Pepsi-Cola, 20 ounces, that's a lot, turn on, tune yourself. Marshall and I came up with that, and that's an…
…obviously some dangers. I guess there's conclusive and inconclusive studies about drugs. Permanent side effects? Depending on what drug. LSD? There's no infants. By the way, every week, probably every day now in the paper, government scientists discover what…
I probably push my nervous system as much as any human being living. I've taken LSD over 500 times and I've experienced a wide range of these biochemical and neurological possibilities. I think I'm the strongest, saddest person around. Our vowed aim is, of…
…psychedelic people from the safety. And so, if I'm in a conservative organization, I say, listen, yes, you can now have the LSD experience on your own screen, doing it yourself. In terms of psychedelic audiences, I said, well, that'd be me. This reads up…
…on the leading edge. Are we? I have a computer that allows you to wear sunglasses, cool bright lights, and it says not to use LSD when you use it. I'm trying to use the LSD. Maybe I will give you a tangential answer to that. Which is that I just…
…allows you to wear sunglasses, cool bright lights, and it says not to use LSD when you use it. I'm trying to use the LSD. Maybe I will give you a tangential answer to that. Which is that I just got told yesterday that I'm communicate with each other…
…I think it was a necessary condition for it, really. What about heroin? Do you think we would have had a heroin epidemic without LSD? I don't think it has any bearing on this, Dr. Coleman. It may have had some bearing. I think it had some bearing,…
…out that no one's ever said anything about that we've isolated in the last 10-12 years that are far more remarkable than LSD. They really tell you which way you're going. All the Harmaline compounds and Ayahuasca and all that stuff, we've got all that.…
…experience and all the things he was doing at Harvard and the others, his residents and the rest that he was giving LSD to, they never had a visionary or ecstatic or mystic experience, but the whole thing was a California invention. And the only…
…are repeated. When I first came to Los Angeles, I was working with Murray Jarvik, who's over here, and we were setting up some LSD studies to do it, and with marijuana and a few other drugs. And Allen Ginsberg came by the lab to visit me one day,…
…were given marijuana, had 11 hallucinogens listed on the proposal. And the only one that the proposal kept on coming back for was LSD. They said, oh, you're going to use LSD? You've got to do a follow-up. You've got to do a 90-day follow-up. You've got…
…on the proposal. And the only one that the proposal kept on coming back for was LSD. They said, oh, you're going to use LSD? You've got to do a follow-up. You've got to do a 90-day follow-up. You've got to do a year and a half follow-up. 30-year…
…very beginning of all this, and I suspect in writing the book that he may have been the very first person to use LSD in America, although that's often accredited to Winkle in Boston. And the reason is that he was sitting, you know, he's a Hungarian,…
…old, having a marvelous time. I said, hey, did you realize you were the first person to publish in an American journal on LSD? He said, yeah, I guess so. He came to some of the Macy Foundation conferences, you remember. You were there, I think. Yes,…
…it? 1940, 50. He said, oh, we just sent it. Amazing. You know Albert's story about that, don't you? About the Sandals salesman and LSD. Do you know that story? Albert says that for many years, the last time I saw him, he said the Sandals salesman would…
…time I saw him, he said the Sandals salesman would come to him and he'd say, when are you going to get something like LSD? When we used to go out, for Sandals, you know, it's quite a small, very respectable Swiss company, and they'd bring their wares…
…quite a small, very respectable Swiss company, and they'd bring their wares along and they wouldn't show much interest. But after LSD, when the Sandals salesman appeared, people would say, you're the people who made LSD. And they would then pay great…
…and they wouldn't show much interest. But after LSD, when the Sandals salesman appeared, people would say, you're the people who made LSD. And they would then pay great attention to every one of their products. And the salesman looked upon this as being…
…Burrell, who was the vice president in charge of public affairs in Hanover, I said to him, the usual subject about what happened to LSD. He said, hell, the reason we gave it up, he says, because we couldn't sell it. Now, about that. He said, take the…
…public record. They're among friends. Did you bring that? Only Harry is recording it. One other change in life... in connection with LSD, or at least LSD contributed mightily, I think, was the whole upsurge in the study of the chemistry of the brain. I…
…among friends. Did you bring that? Only Harry is recording it. One other change in life... in connection with LSD, or at least LSD contributed mightily, I think, was the whole upsurge in the study of the chemistry of the brain. I think that had a lot…
…of the chemistry of the brain. I think that had a lot to do with it, and although it may have happened, I think LSD accelerated it. Yeah, it's interesting that that was, in writing the book, that's part of it, that I think the clinicians somehow, if…
…area of... terrible concern to them and and mainly in terms of the of what I think is this equally important impact of LSD which was on accelerating the entire notion of the neurochemistry of the brain and how the you know the brain processes emotion…
…at that more critically but I think as you say that chapter is most importantly well worth written entirely I think it was LSD with serotonin, which in turn gave rise, perhaps, to the early hypotheses of, you know, of the brain amines in relation to…
…know, of the brain amines in relation to affective disorders. That was a direct chain, in a large extent. Yeah. I think LSD probably had the most effect on the larger population that had never even taken it, to the marginals. participation in the…
…population that had never even taken it, to the marginals. participation in the counterculture movement, which I attribute largely to LSD. I'm not attributing necessarily, but I think it's a necessary condition. Bill, when we were running our subjects, about…
…used some of that data. And the artist seemed to derive an enormous amount of interest and of help from the experience with LSD, among all the others. The worst reactors we had were the psychiatrists. And the second were the ministers. I mean, they were,…
…yeah. Yeah, I'd like to understand that a little better with the doll. You say you first had them paint it before they'd taken LSD. Yeah. And then during. Yes. And how about, did you do any after? Yes. There was some we did after, yeah. Yeah. They…
…this broadcast, to get any other message that I'm telling you, stay away from LSD. In the first place, And 99% of what's called LSD is male LSD. And 99% of the things that are said about LSD are totally lies or fabrications. The whole thing is so…
…get any other message that I'm telling you, stay away from LSD. In the first place, And 99% of what's called LSD is male LSD. And 99% of the things that are said about LSD are totally lies or fabrications. The whole thing is so confused now that I'll…
…from LSD. In the first place, And 99% of what's called LSD is male LSD. And 99% of the things that are said about LSD are totally lies or fabrications. The whole thing is so confused now that I'll flatly make that statement. You also said in the past…
…would get easily wiped out and create bad vibrations where we wanted good vibrations. Some people say that perhaps your use of LSD and other drugs, you might have destroyed some of your brain. Do you think that you've suffered any brain damage whatsoever?…
…years for 10 grams or more. That means mandatory without parole. And so while we celebrate and mark the occasion of 50 years of LSD and express our hopes and dreams for the future and the next 50, we must not lose sight of the prisoners of this…
…whom it may concern. My name is Jason Cohn. and I have recently been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for 12.8 grams of LSD, 20 sheets. I am now 20 years old and reside in the federal prison camp at Eglin Air Force Base. I received your name…
…organization is, the organization is Citizens for Equal Justice, and how you're planning to make a change. There are about 15 to 20 LSD cases here at Eglin, and we are all keeping our fingers crossed for change. Please write to me at this address. If…
…and get all that. The letter continues, I am eagerly awaiting word from you. If it means anything to your cause, none of the LSD cases here have any prior record, no weapons in their possession, and are all under the age of 25. Even I am not the…
…rode my bicycle up here a few times. It was during that time as an undergraduate that I helped organize a conference called LSD a Generation Later, and we brought Albert Hoffman to discover the LSD up here. Hoffman gave a talk about his discovery that…
…as an undergraduate that I helped organize a conference called LSD a Generation Later, and we brought Albert Hoffman to discover the LSD up here. Hoffman gave a talk about his discovery that night, and it was actually 5,000 people all hovering around. It…
…and it was actually 5,000 people all hovering around. It was an amazing event. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the day that LSD was discovered. LSD was discovered in the middle of World War II. It was almost the same time as the atomic bomb was…
…actually 5,000 people all hovering around. It was an amazing event. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the day that LSD was discovered. LSD was discovered in the middle of World War II. It was almost the same time as the atomic bomb was discovered, and…
…we have this tool which could tip the psyche the other way. However, it wasn't until almost, actually more than two decades later, that LSD was more widely used. Earlier on, it was used, of course, by the Army and by research. And it was in the midst…
…on, it was used, of course, by the Army and by research. And it was in the midst of the 60s, actually 25 years after LSD was discovered, 25 years ago, that I took my first LSD trip, had my first LSD experience. And for me, the LSD experience was a…
…it was in the midst of the 60s, actually 25 years after LSD was discovered, 25 years ago, that I took my first LSD trip, had my first LSD experience. And for me, the LSD experience was a remarkable, spiritual experience. It's something that guided me…
…of the 60s, actually 25 years after LSD was discovered, 25 years ago, that I took my first LSD trip, had my first LSD experience. And for me, the LSD experience was a remarkable, spiritual experience. It's something that guided me all of the time since…
…LSD was discovered, 25 years ago, that I took my first LSD trip, had my first LSD experience. And for me, the LSD experience was a remarkable, spiritual experience. It's something that guided me all of the time since that point. And although I've done…
…that point. And although I've done many other things since then, it's always stayed with me. It was eight years after I first took LSD that I found myself on a bridge on the Rhine River with Dr. Albert Hoffman, as he pointed out, the route that he…
…every day. He was ahead of his time in the ecological movement. Then it was the next year that we did this conference, LSD Generation Later. It was a dream of mine in putting that conference together to bring together all of the diverse figures in the…
…we going to do the next one? I offhandedly remarked, well, it would probably be on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of LSD. a couple of years away, and I didn't really want to have to deal with all of the organizational craziness that these things…
…That might be a nicer introduction than I deserve. First off, I'd like to say that this event has been a lot like an LSD trip. You're sailing along thinking you're doing great, and the next minute, man, you're down. And there's not much you can do but…
…on AIDS. I think that that's the core, that's where we have to begin. This is not a quick trip. This is like one of those LSD trips that it just keeps going on and on and on, and it's not going to end soon. And I think that that's all right. I…
…the high school data is showing that high school students, eighth graders, are showing a little bit of a rise in their use of LSD. That was interpreted as a major downturn in the war on drugs. an example that this past year of quiet is a mistake and…
…data to debate with, we're nothing. We cannot really move forward. So the idea of tonight was to do this as a benefit for LSD research and treatment of substance abuse. My goal is at least to get them $5,000 so they can treat a couple patients. If we…
…to meet among friends. It was here in 1978 that after a long silence Peter Stafford and Bruce Eisner decided to have an LSD conference and invited Albert Hoffman to the United States. There wasn't expected to be a very large crowd. but it turned out…
…At this point, I'd like to say that one of the sights that I saw were young kids with T-shirts, and it said, LSD, the second generation. Okay? I have expected to see some t-shirts here tonight that said, LSD, the third generation of France. But it's…
…with T-shirts, and it said, LSD, the second generation. Okay? I have expected to see some t-shirts here tonight that said, LSD, the third generation of France. But it's pretty fortunate that people who have worked in psychedelics can keep themselves young,…
…And he said, well, we just can't keep those books, he said. They just leave us and disappear. I'm imputing the honesty of LSD. I'm saying something about their dedication. And when Albert came here, and he stayed at my home in Santa Monica, and we just…
…of my feelings down that I'd like to share with you people. It is fortunate indeed that the mantle of discovery of LSD, the most powerful effector of consciousness change that was ever known, fell on the shoulders of Albert Hoffman. A wise, sensitive, and…
…by visionaries, madmen, and poets. He has remained steadfast throughout the shifting temper of the times and is believed that LSD is an instrument of immense significance in the investigation of mental and emotional processes, a periscope of the mind, that…
…was Metagen, which is a medicament used in obstetrics as aid in childbirth. The second offspring, from my relation with Mother Ergot, or LSD. Whereas Medellin helps in the birth of a body child, LSD can be helpful in the birth of a spiritual child hidden…
…childbirth. The second offspring, from my relation with Mother Ergot, or LSD. Whereas Medellin helps in the birth of a body child, LSD can be helpful in the birth of a spiritual child hidden in a human being. Whereas, metagene is effective in the material…
…helpful in the birth of a spiritual child hidden in a human being. Whereas, metagene is effective in the material world, LSD is effective in the spiritual world. And such a connection cannot be accidental. Some higher authorities must be behind who thought…
…behind who thought that our time needed help not only on the material but also on the spiritual level and therefore ordered LSD to be born. It must have been the least higher authority who, after I had synthesized linoleic acid digestive demides already…
…1938, spoke to my inner ear to repeat the synthesis. In 1943, which then resulted in the discovery of the fantastic effects of LSD on the human psyche. It was in some years later, in the fifties, that LSD itself attracted, as they say, the magic plant…
…in the discovery of the fantastic effects of LSD on the human psyche. It was in some years later, in the fifties, that LSD itself attracted, as they say, the magic plant of Mexico into my laboratory for chemical investigation. It must have been the wish…
…attracted, as they say, the magic plant of Mexico into my laboratory for chemical investigation. It must have been the wish of LSD, to show its close relationship to this magic plant or this iconoclast of Mexico, to Chonanacatl, to Honolulu, in order to…
…sacred dress. And also to show by this ancient Mexican-Indian cults to give us examples how to make a wise supplemental use of LSD and similar psychedelics. There are people and as you know not a few who think that a psychic experience which is evoked…
…purpose of human life, enlightenment, the end equation, love. I think all these joyful testimonies, testimonies of Invaluable health by LSD should be enough to convince the health authority finally of the nonsense of prohibition of LSD and of similar…
…testimonies of Invaluable health by LSD should be enough to convince the health authority finally of the nonsense of prohibition of LSD and of similar psychedelics. Dear friends, I am happy to be with you at this wonderful celebration of the birthday of…
…to the 50th anniversary of Albert Hoffman's miraculous bicycle ride. which led to his discovery of the extraordinary properties of LSD. And that, it was almost equally miraculous that this should have occurred to someone like Albert who was sufficiently…
…So, good luck to you all. bring it on Now I'd like to introduce a man I met 17 years ago at the LSD Generation Later Conference. John Beresford is a medical doctor who immigrated from England. He became a U.S. citizen. He started an organization called…
…who immigrated from England. He became a U.S. citizen. He started an organization called the Agora Scientific Trust, which was an LSD resource organization in New York City. He's probably best known in history, psychedelic world, for having gone and seen Dr.…
…He's probably best known in history, psychedelic world, for having gone and seen Dr. Hoffman back in 1960 and gotten a gram of LSD. I can't remember the lot number now, but Peter Stafford wrote a book called The Magic Gram. It was a gram that turned…
…who was a very famous medium and a parapsychologist and the founder of the New York Parapsychology Foundation. And she was interested in LSD and remained so. And she told me that in 1936, that's seven years before the 1943 event, she had a vision in…
…coming true. I haven't thought of that memory for quite a while. Well, as Bruce said, I was involved in some experimental work with LSD in the early 1960s, and it seemed to me that a very important opportunity had arisen in that here was a substance, a…
…when I'm Timothy Leary I don't cross into Mexico carrying pot that to me is sloppy I mean I'm a game player I was an LSD smuggler for years man and I know how to play exquisite games and Timothy's game is sloppy if timothy is playing well but aren't…
…sees your own desires projected but when I'm around beings like my guru in India who was the one that took 900 micrograms of LSD and swallowed it and nothing happened, right? When I'm around beings like him, who knows the inside of my mind, and I don't…
…ingestion of sacred foods. Now today, the sacrament is a chemical, or it's a series of chemicals. Now, let's not get upset about LSD. In the first place, there are longer and stronger and more powerful chemicals that have the same effect as LSD that are…
…upset about LSD. In the first place, there are longer and stronger and more powerful chemicals that have the same effect as LSD that are in circulation right now in the United States. there'll be many more coming along. I make this flat prediction, as…
…getting outside under the stars, getting back inside to figure out what it's all about. So let's not get too upset about LSD because even the era of biochemistry for bringing about the sacral experience is almost over, within your lifetime you will see…
…time with your kids in about 25 years because you'll be sitting around home smoking marijuana and preparing for your next weekly LSD session like good, tidy, conventional people should. And your kids are going to come and say, hey, dad and mom, in…
…going to get upset and say, why don't you use the old tried and true methods of finding out where it's at, like LSD. Now, there's much confusion about the scientific status and the scientific evidence about LSD. And I'll say this quite flatly. There's no…
…of finding out where it's at, like LSD. Now, there's much confusion about the scientific status and the scientific evidence about LSD. And I'll say this quite flatly. There's no evidence that I know of, and I read the literature pretty carefully, They…
…flatly. There's no evidence that I know of, and I read the literature pretty carefully, They can tell us very much about what LSD does to consciousness, or to the nervous system, or to the genetic material. Any time you hear anyone talking to you about…
…LSD does to consciousness, or to the nervous system, or to the genetic material. Any time you hear anyone talking to you about LSD and pretending to give you scientific facts, whether they're pro or con LSD, I suggest that you be very skeptical. I don't…
…material. Any time you hear anyone talking to you about LSD and pretending to give you scientific facts, whether they're pro or con LSD, I suggest that you be very skeptical. I don't know whether LSD is good or bad. I don't know the effects of LSD…
…and pretending to give you scientific facts, whether they're pro or con LSD, I suggest that you be very skeptical. I don't know whether LSD is good or bad. I don't know the effects of LSD on the nervous system, on the brain, or on the genetic material.…
…or con LSD, I suggest that you be very skeptical. I don't know whether LSD is good or bad. I don't know the effects of LSD on the nervous system, on the brain, or on the genetic material. It's a gamble. It's a risk. The sacrament is always a risk.…
…and put strange things in the ground? Not quite knowing what they're doing? Yeah. Taking a psychedelic chemical is a risk. Taking LSD is a risk. It's a gamble. It's Russian roulette. But... What isn't? Can you name anything that you breathe or put in…
…And of all the Russian roulette games I see around me, including Vietnam and Polluted Air, I would say that the Russian roulette at LSD is about the best gamble in the house. To show you the difficult nature of the scientific study of LSD, I want to…
…Russian roulette at LSD is about the best gamble in the house. To show you the difficult nature of the scientific study of LSD, I want to tell you a story of what happened with the scientific study of marijuana in the United States. You know, marijuana…
…I want to tell you, lay my cards right on the table, that I came into the research biased. I was very much against LSD. I happen to be an Irish-American and I like to drink. As a middle class teacher at Harvard or the University of California, I'd…
…was no way I could get marijuana and be interested in it. Then we got involved up at Harvard doing research in LSD, and I found out to my surprise that enormous numbers of young people were using marijuana, even Harvard students and graduate students.…
…people in our research project, because I didn't think we should study marijuana. Because my contract with Harvard, we were going to study LSD, which was legal in those days. Amazing, you just ride away and get it. I didn't think it would be fair to mix…
…legal in those days. Amazing, you just ride away and get it. I didn't think it would be fair to mix marijuana up with LSD in our research, so I would go around, just like the deans at Harvard, around our research projects in Newton or in Mexico, and…
…say, my beloved robots of Menopausal Institute of Technology, there's no good and evil in this world. Marijuana is neither good nor bad. LSD is neither good nor bad. As a matter of fact, there's probably no activity that you engage in from day to day or…
…At first, Leary pursued a disciplined regime. Visitors paid for weekend seminars where they were taught how best to use LSD. In his natural habitat, the prophet preaches. Timothy Leary in a Saturday morning session of words and silences. The session…
…and setting referring to the environment in which it occurred. Really, it's all so simple. Each next moment, this is it. LSD was beginning to enter the American consciousness. While Leary gave psychedelic lessons to the chic of New York, the residents of…
…the residents of California were being offered an altogether more raucous introduction to the drug. The self-styled merry pranksters believed LSD should be available to all. They were driving their magic bus across America, offering the drug to anyone willing…
…heads. and other people that would like to know what the heads are doing. Are you going to tell what's bad about LSD? Not necessarily. The pranksters may have treated LSD with less respect than Leary, but they recognized that he had blazed the psychedelic…
…what the heads are doing. Are you going to tell what's bad about LSD? Not necessarily. The pranksters may have treated LSD with less respect than Leary, but they recognized that he had blazed the psychedelic trail before them. Tim carried the standard.…
…all during the 1960s. Leary now took his message to New York's theater land with a music and light show to recreate the LSD experience. To turn on you have to have a key to get in touch with the neurological sensory and cellular information that you've…
…of course it was a dead fuchsia plant with a lot of peat moss at the bottom. The police claimed they found both marijuana and LSD at the house, but the case was thrown out by a grand jury and never went to trial. Leary was feeling the effects of the…
…case was thrown out by a grand jury and never went to trial. Leary was feeling the effects of the backlash against LSD. Undoubtedly, it can cause psychological damage, but a flurry of propaganda films now exaggerated its dangers. Any stress in this rising…
…he feels it going. There's only one escape from this discomfort. That's suicide. This man will kill himself. Leary had brought LSD into the limelight and in doing so, he had brought opprobrium on more than just himself. Scientific research had shown that…
…himself. Scientific research had shown that psychedelic drugs could help in treating alcoholism, chronic pain, even schizophrenia. But by 1967, LSD was illegal in most of the USA and all research projects involving psychedelic drugs had been closed down. Most…
…into the public domain, and they had all warned him. The dirty hippie chamber you've heard so much about. Hold it for me. LSD was now seen as a catalyst of the hippie culture that so dismayed the American establishment. And Timothy Leary, who for so…
…consider it part of my scientific work. You can't study microbiological phenomena unless you look through the microscope. So I've used LSD about once a week for the last six years. We were doing research at Harvard University on psychoactive brain change…
…a thousand people, how is that possible? Ken Kesey having a thousand people dancing naked with the breakthrough dead in San Francisco using LSD. Now, I could see that that was going to change public perception of it, and I had no intention of staying at…
…the body because they don't affect the body. So you're saying you have no side effects whatsoever from these things? From taking LSD? There can be psychological side effects because they do open you up and show you new things but physically to your brain…
…your brain or your body, no. You said something interesting once in an interview. You said that a lot of people who took LSD are now real savvy about computers. That's true because you see what you're talking about here is the head experience the mind…
…in the right hands and with scientific and disciplined and hopeful people, it will bring about changes. Most people come back from an LSD trip and they say, there's only one word you can use. Wow. TIMOTHY LEARY HAD ALREADY LED A FULL LIFE BEFORE HE…
…trip and they say, there's only one word you can use. Wow. TIMOTHY LEARY HAD ALREADY LED A FULL LIFE BEFORE HE DISCOVERED LSD AT AGE 39. HE WAS BORN IN 1920 AND GREW UP IN A SUBURB OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. THROUGHOUT HIGH SCHOOL, LEARY CHALLENGED THE…
…small pill. Leary and Alpert's work at Harvard quickly elevated into an entirely new dimension. For the last six years, I have taken LSD and other such drugs regularly. I consider it a part of my spiritual practice, just like we go to church once a…
…also consider it part of my scientific work. You can't study microbiological phenomena unless you look through the microscope. So I've used LSD about once a week for the last six years. At Harvard, Leary began research on the effects of psilocybin and LSD…
…used LSD about once a week for the last six years. At Harvard, Leary began research on the effects of psilocybin and LSD with students in his graduate psychology class. He and his students took the drugs together and analyzed the results. I've probably…
…drugs together and analyzed the results. I've probably pushed my nervous system as much as any human being living. I've taken LSD over 500 times and I've experienced a wide range of these biochemical and neurological possibilities. I think I'm the strongest,…
…wrote The Psychedelic Experience with his colleagues, a manual describing how to explore the human brain through the magic of LSD. Leary and If-If's new philosophy gained international attention. He called the LSD experience a trip, an adventure taken into…
…to explore the human brain through the magic of LSD. Leary and If-If's new philosophy gained international attention. He called the LSD experience a trip, an adventure taken into the depths of the mind. His psychedelic retreat became a mecca of new…
…Foundation fellowship. And while at Stanford, I was given the opportunity to go to the Stanford Hospital and take part in the LSD experiments. Ken Kesey grew up outside Eugene, Oregon. He was an all-star wrestler in high school and college. He studied the…
…MKUltra operation. At the Veterans Hospital in Menlo Park, California, Kesey was given a plethora of psychedelic drugs, specifically LSD. The experiments were held in the hospital's insanity ward, giving Kesey the inspiration to write the famed novel, One…
…Now go to the sea. Try to see what's going on. Like Leary, Kesey and the Pranksters were eager to discover how LSD altered consciousness. The news of Leary's radical research had already spread to all corners of the world. Tim was obviously famous. You…
…famous. You know, Tim was obviously famous. I mean, he's written many books. He was the man. He was the man in front of the LSD movement. You know, Kesey was a big man in front of it. But Leary was the man. He's the guy that really... Turn on, tune…
…thousand people, how could it be possible? Ken Kesey having a thousand people dancing naked with a breakthrough lead in San Francisco using LSD. Now I could see that that was going to change public perception of it. What is going to be the theme of your…
…the heads and other people that would like to know what the heads are doing. Are you going to tell what's bad about LSD? Not necessarily. Will LSD be in evidence at the graduation ceremony? Why don't you guys come? Kesey and the Pranksters posed a…
…that would like to know what the heads are doing. Are you going to tell what's bad about LSD? Not necessarily. Will LSD be in evidence at the graduation ceremony? Why don't you guys come? Kesey and the Pranksters posed a question to the psychedelic…
…picnic? It's a gathering of the tribes. Get as high as you possibly can. What do you know about Timothy Leary? A lot of it's just LSD. What did he do with LSD? A lot of studies with it, and experimented himself with it a lot. He is sort of a shaman…
…tribes. Get as high as you possibly can. What do you know about Timothy Leary? A lot of it's just LSD. What did he do with LSD? A lot of studies with it, and experimented himself with it a lot. He is sort of a shaman who taught me things very early…
…ride the waves of four great cultural revolutions. Jazz, acid, punk, and cyberspace. TIMOTHY WAS FASCINATED WITH COMPUTERS. LIKE LSD, HE BELIEVED COMPUTERS ARE TOOLS FOR BEHAVIORAL CHANGE, COMMUNICATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT. Right now, it's happening, but in 10…
…few years of his life, Leary became deeply involved with the Internet and the World Wide Web. He called the Internet the LSD of the 90s. Through his homepage, leary.com, he bid farewell to his longtime fans and followers in cyberspace. Leary remarked that…