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.
…is that I just got told yesterday that I'm communicate with each other on rearranged days whilst tripping as heavily as possible on LSD in order to try and find out to what extent they discover or notice any rude mind or telepathic or simplistic effect.…
…seems to affect See, there's a time and a place for everything, and I mean, it's a little obvious. Do not indulge in LSD if you're flying an airplane, okay? You don't watch your pilot coming in over Oakland and seeing the pretty lights, okay? Call me…
…pupils when they turn on your brain. So if you have to do something that requires precise reading and writing... When it comes to LSD, it's simply impossible to talk about it because who knows what you're going to get? Some kind of trench coat in a bar…
…do is protect us with accurate labeling on the package. I actually never have advocated, you know, going out and taking LSD. I think it's something much more subversive, and that's think for yourself and question authority. Well, my first figure is just…
Say something of a guru of the drug culture during the 1960s and 70s, and who popularized the phrase with regard to LSD, tune in, turn on, drop out. And I know you've heard that very same introduction or some version of it a thousand times, and no…
…to be somewhere in the first paragraph of any story... About you. Oh, you're putting the Martians down, huh? Do you still use LSD? I use any neurotransmitter that my brain tells me she needs to improve my life. Yes, I do. What's the legality of that…
…Yes, I do. What's the legality of that at present? Is there some way to circumvent it? Can you use it legally? LSD is now legal in Switzerland and in Amsterdam, Holland. And it is legal in the United States for certain government-supervised, certified…
…at UCLA, University of South Carolina, State University of New York, many of them are very, very interested in the use of LSD as possible therapy with schizophrenia, as a source of research. with regard to brain function. So in that sense, LSD is openly…
…of LSD as possible therapy with schizophrenia, as a source of research. with regard to brain function. So in that sense, LSD is openly talked about in the educational and medical communities, right? Sure is. What about, however, as a recreational drug? Is…
…his mind? Five, isn't it common sense to turn the other cheek to his forced confessions? Six, what advice give the young on LSD? Try it. with healthy body, speech, and mind. Seven. Seven. No LSD cactus mushroom teacher is needed now in cities. Isn't Lady…
…his forced confessions? Six, what advice give the young on LSD? Try it. with healthy body, speech, and mind. Seven. Seven. No LSD cactus mushroom teacher is needed now in cities. Isn't Lady Psychedelia big enough to teach by herself with all her granny…
…a sensory aspect to instincts, as well as the motor aspect, and the sensory aspect is what can be aroused by something like LSD. It can arouse all these sensory cues. which are necessary to touch off instincts, and they have to be stored in the nervous…
…times of other cultures that I had not been exposed to in this life, and these were reactivated. For example, we took LSD several times in the desert, the Sahara Desert. You talk about reincarnation memories, like, we would have one bottle of water, and…
…reaction to dehydration and the humidity of the atmosphere which is of course very strange to us because when you take LSD in the desert your water equilibrium machineries are spinning around like they've never spun before So it would trigger up a…
…they've never spun before So it would trigger up a lot of experiences related to dryness. And of course most of the perceptive LSD voyagers would talk about a coming of night, a coming of darkness, light, fire, shelter, warmth, which we In the last, just…
…way through history. And these things could be transmitted as memories as well as being part of a pre-programmed... The thing about LSD too, the thing about people jumping out of windows, I personally think that a lot of that is deliberately triggered off…
…two billion years and there's a lot to learn from it. Now, we don't want other people necessarily to use our sacraments, LSD and marijuana. We're not advocating the use of these. And in our celebrations, which we'll be putting on January 27th and 28th…
…about. I have heard it stated, and with some understanding, that some of the people who become involved with the use of LSD, that it becomes a sort of dead end. In other words, here is an experience which is highly stimulating and extremely exciting…
…Well, we belong to the school which believes that by your fruits you shall be known. It's inconceivable to us that people could take LSD regularly and not be driven to come back to society and to try to glorify or to express what they have learned. And…
…what is it that you think they have learned? Well, it's highly individual, obviously. And, of course, you mentioned the misuse of LSD. It's obvious. Every form of energy that man has invented has been misused. I think the auto engine is misused. I think…
…even radio and television is misused by most other stations. It's too much to ask that our new form of energy, which is LSD, is going to immediately cause everyone to become an ecstatic and productive saint. On the other hand, all we can do is say…
…has to do with this commitment, attachment of the imprinting process to the external, because there's one thing that happens during LSD session is that you tend to lose a lot of your attachment to external events. It's perfectly typical that during LSD…
…during LSD session is that you tend to lose a lot of your attachment to external events. It's perfectly typical that during LSD session, the subject will lie for five or six hours completely silently, not moving around, and perhaps even with their eyes…
…silently, not moving around, and perhaps even with their eyes closed, which has led in the past some psychiatrists to say, aha, LSD causes catatonic stupidness. But then when you ask the person what was going on during that five or six hours when you…
…several years ago looking for a psychiatric research center where he could jump in one of these sensory deprivation vats and take LSD and use his head. Now so far, the notions of imprinting in psychedelic drugs may be interesting, but The implications are…
…been frozen with one snapshot. We think that the psychedelic drugs can suspend the old snapshot, and anyone who's had LSD will perhaps empathize that I describe someone's experience as your neurological camera tumbling in a million different directions in any…
…man will control his psychology and his nervous system will be through the use of chemicals, biochemicals, not just like marijuana LSD, but chemicals which are much more basic, much more powerful, much more in tune with this incredible instrument we have…
…future man will be taking chemicals infinitely more powerful and more useful, everything's gonna be much more complicated. You just can't drop LSD the way you slug a beer. It's much too intricate. So that in the future, before anyone turns on to marijuana…
…LSD the way you slug a beer. It's much too intricate. So that in the future, before anyone turns on to marijuana or LSD or mescaline or the new sacraments which will come along, we take it for granted that he will have mastered 21 spiritual disciplines,…
…was a St. Thomas or a St. Augustine with his vision of the city of God on earth, or a St. Teresa battling his Oshetian LSD, or a St. John of the Cross, or even a Pope John. And what are the Catholic voices saying today? I hear 70- and 80-year-old…
…is psychotic, their reality is entirely different from your consensual reality. Or if someone takes a powerful psychedelic like LSD, again, reality is entirely different, or multiple. Now this is a tremendously frightening step, because Once you start playing…
…it is well known that Timothy Leary is dying of inoperable prostate cancer, that the man once called the high priest of LSD is determined to choreograph his own death, perhaps a suicide over the internet, much as he once advocated choreographing one's own…
…understanding end, more attention to feeling, more attention to consciousness as a whole human being, At Harvard, Leary used LSD with prisoners and with divinity students. He left Harvard in 1963 after criticism by Harvard administrators. Leary hit the…
…1963 after criticism by Harvard administrators. Leary hit the streets with what poet Allen Ginsberg later called the democratization of LSD, the use of psychedelics by thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands in the 1960s. Here is Leary speaking in the…
…turn on, and drop out? A man who excelled in the academic world at Harvard and He was one of the first pioneers of LSD and other psychedelics, known very much and identified with the 60s, but continuing to write, to explore, to pioneer. And even as we…
…where I can learn most. And the smartest people are hanging out at those places. At some point, though, you started experimenting with LSD, and then not too long after that you dropped out of Harvard, or they kicked you out, or what? Ha, ha, ha. Well,…
…Wait a minute, if in the 60s there was, let's suppose there was 10 million, 20 million, let's say there's 100 million doses of LSD, are we that much more enlightened in 1995 than we were in 1960? Yes, actually, it did have a change in society. Hey,…
…can bat 50%, 500%, it's incredible. Half the things I've done are wrong. Mistakes. That's how I did them. Moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I know. Well, we all make fools of ourselves occasionally. Good God.…
…ordinary state of consciousness is one with the high state. This to me has been the most fantastic thing in all my LSD experiences, that the moment I come down is the critical moment of the whole experience. I suddenly realize that this everyday world…
…talking more about it. Let's go back a little. You were, for a time, very villainous in this country, I guess, with the LSD situation, and people would be angry about Timothy Leary. They still are, by the way. Yeah, but it's temperate somewhat. In fact,…
…You became kind of the guru of this. I don't like the word guru. As a good Irishman, you know, I don't like that idea. Is LSD a thing of the past now? I was on a show today in Philadelphia. Yeah, it's Tuesday, isn't it? And a man named Martin Lee,…
…was on a show today in Philadelphia. Yeah, it's Tuesday, isn't it? And a man named Martin Lee, who's just written a book on LSD, was there, and he said that government statistics say there's as much LSD being used today as there was in the 60s. The…
…a man named Martin Lee, who's just written a book on LSD, was there, and he said that government statistics say there's as much LSD being used today as there was in the 60s. The eye of the media sees leaving LSD alone. Now you've got crack, and you've…
…government statistics say there's as much LSD being used today as there was in the 60s. The eye of the media sees leaving LSD alone. Now you've got crack, and you've got Nicaragua, and now you've got Ayatollah Khomeini, so that the... Because it's not in…
…$50 to take this drug. So he said, sure, you bro. So, that would be one of those CIA projects where they were trying out LSD on people. So, he still got a job at the hospital. And the first night on duty, he stole about half of the faucet filled…
…are killed and wounded on one single Saturday night with a combination of booze and motor oil than the entire 20 years that LSD has been used in this country. Of course, you don't hear any talk about LSD casualties these days. Why? More LSD is being…
…motor oil than the entire 20 years that LSD has been used in this country. Of course, you don't hear any talk about LSD casualties these days. Why? More LSD is being used today than in the 60s. All the government reports show that. The sociologic…
…years that LSD has been used in this country. Of course, you don't hear any talk about LSD casualties these days. Why? More LSD is being used today than in the 60s. All the government reports show that. The sociologic studies that show that, the clinic…
…than in the 60s. All the government reports show that. The sociologic studies that show that, the clinic studies report there's more LSD being used now than ever before. But you know, now they've got the pyramids to worry about, right? The reason, of…
…some chemist takes me aside and says, Hey, Timothy, we got a new brand X here. If you try that, it's twice as strong as LSD and lasts for 10 minutes. You want to try? So, again, the whole concept of drugs now. For the last 20 years, our great…
…of drugs now. For the last 20 years, our great research institutes, apparently, have done nothing to give us something wrong with LSD. Give us a better drug. Something wrong with heroin that makes you addictive? Good. Get rid of the addiction. Give us…
…allow us to do what we want with our brains. So, yes. Beyond that, the more philosophic biogenetic theory of drugs, I think that LSD, we say it's a key that opens up all the wonderful ballrooms in your mind. Well, that was a Newtonian concept. I'd not…
…interesting, though, that although 70 million Americans, you know, use drugs now and then, There are about 10 million who have used LSD. There are an enormous number of the smartest Americans I know that use drugs regularly. And somehow or other, there are…
…you. Gee, how do you answer that one? Well, it sure is great to be back again after two years. I was here in the LSD in the future two years ago and heard very similar thoughts. There seems to have been a little progress since then. There seems to…
…Allegra have told us that the key to the Eleusinian Mysteries was a ceremonial plant, which is probably related to LSD. Now, we popped up... out history in France, the Hashishins, Baudelaire, Gautier, Verlin. We popped up in England, Wordsworth, Coleridge,…
…heavy hitters are going to come out and tell us what to do. That's them. But if the human brain, you know, if LSD is so terrible, well, how come the brain has all these receptor organs or these lowered thresholds or the serotonin, anti-serotonin. I'm…
…to you many, many, many new possibilities for human intelligence and human sensation and so forth. But we're here to talk about LSD, the psychedelic conference, and I want to tell you a very interesting definition of LSD that pleases me. One of my dear…
…and so forth. But we're here to talk about LSD, the psychedelic conference, and I want to tell you a very interesting definition of LSD that pleases me. One of my dear friends and a man that I admire very much, who I hope is going to be here…
…Oscar Janager is a psychiatrist from Los Angeles, and he started in the 1950s a research project in which they were studying LSD. Now, he's a very modest person and a very Extremely wise and intelligent person. He's never been busted, for example. Although…
…There are more drugs being used than ever before. There are drugs coming out of the laboratory that are much stronger than LSD. They're more precise. I'm in the advertising department. See production. Um, yeah. How about a round of applause for Owsley? Ten…
…the world, was the young people would stand on the stage and they'd sing right into the eyes of the audience things like marijuana, LSD, or cunnilingus. And the audience would go Now, that was hot stuff in the 60s. But really, you can't make a movie of…
…we have one of the most important men in terms of psychedelics in the western hemisphere, western civilization. I wouldn't have taken LSD if it hadn't been exposed and people hadn't made experiments, but when I took it that first time, I saw immortality,…
…appeared to have been used in the 60s and 70s? Well, Bob, you probably know I have not been involved publicly or scientifically with LSD for maybe 15 years, so I don't know. I would be bluffing if I tried to come on here and talk about what's…
…60s, and therefore the incidences of bad trips are much fewer, but that they guessed that maybe nearly as many people were users of LSD now as had been in the 60s and 70s. Is it important from your standpoint to separate LSD from other drugs that were…
…as many people were users of LSD now as had been in the 60s and 70s. Is it important from your standpoint to separate LSD from other drugs that were used at that time and are still used today? Is it in its separate category? Well, it's not important…
…drugs, psychedelic plants, which have been used for thousands of years by shaman and... Like mescaline peyote in addition to acid. And LSD itself comes from an ergot of rye. What we're told is that the human being evolved in which our brains have a…
…in a tribal situation, and in that context, psychedelic plants were used. They may have used peyote, but just as a distinction, LSD wasn't synthesized until the late 30s or early 40s, something like that, right? LSD has always existed in the form of rust…
…may have used peyote, but just as a distinction, LSD wasn't synthesized until the late 30s or early 40s, something like that, right? LSD has always existed in the form of rust on an ergot of rye. Didn't you know that? No. That's always been around.…
…That's always been around. Could it be used effectively? prior to the late 30s, early 40s? Could people access it and use it? LSD was not as powerful because they didn't have the ways of taking the ergot and converting it. But mescaline and peyote and…
…To go to a kind of shorthand here, it was always your feeling, I'm just paraphrasing your contentions, that the use of LSD was not purely for ecstasy, it was for revelation, because it opened you up to sensory experiences that otherwise you wouldn't…
…a wave that took us all by surprise. Even if we grant you the purest and most idealistic of motives in your own use of LSD and in supervising or aiding the use of LSD by people who you came into direct contact with, to what extent do you feel…
…we grant you the purest and most idealistic of motives in your own use of LSD and in supervising or aiding the use of LSD by people who you came into direct contact with, to what extent do you feel responsible for helping to popularize the notion of…
…they've seen God, or they've danced with angels, and of course that kind of shakes people up. But actually the dangers of LSD are tremendous. They've been demonized. I guess what the criticism now, if criticism is the right word, comes down to is this.…
…motives, no, I stand by these totally. The fact that What authoritarian people do, particularly moralists do, they ignore something like LSD. Then when it comes along, you can't ignore it, then you trivialize it. Oh, it's nothing, it's just like that. And…
…always believe in relativity. If you say something about this, you have to compare it with something else. It's not a valid defense of LSD or any other drug to simply say that there are drugs that we work at that are worse. By the way, I'm not…
…claim or the claim of any other parent like him where he might have said, look, I can recognize the distinctions that LSD may not directly cause the same terrible reactions as cocaine or heroin or even alcohol if misused, but in the atmosphere that…
…cause the same terrible reactions as cocaine or heroin or even alcohol if misused, but in the atmosphere that existed, somebody takes LSD, they experience delusions, they think they can fly, and out the window they go. That did not happen with her now.…
…they can fly, and out the window they go. That did not happen with her now. See, that's again rumor. She hadn't taken LSD for months before that. And I agree that anyone in public position who stands for a controversial point of view, which involves…
…over there, drafted them, and sent them over there. The Ball Park scoreboard statistics, the averages of Damage done during the 60s, LSD was way, way down the list of almost negligible casualty rate. How much personal antagonism do you face in 1991, given…
…prominent in the 60s and 70s in the youth culture and popularized the phrase, tune in, turn on, and drop out with regard to LSD use. Now we've gone over all that ground from a theoretical perspective the last time, but I do want to talk about some…
…notion of assigning homicidal and murderous acts to someone who's done that is exactly the danger, because he could then say, well, LSD killed Art Linkletter's daughter, which it didn't, by the way. And then he could, you know, he could kill me. We have…
…my virginity, and I have re-inactivated my sexual circuits. In the early 60s, it was Miles Davis, Sketches in Spain. I've taken LSD at least 50 times behind the Beatles' Rolling Stones, so the access goes. Oh, I haven't given up my Benny Goodman, and…
…be my guest, but do not do so under the illusion that you will have any chance of defeating them. You're implying that LSD is not as popular today. No, no, no. I'm not implying anything. I'm really asking a very honest question. Do you think that…
…is not as popular today. No, no, no. I'm not implying anything. I'm really asking a very honest question. Do you think that LSD research is still a valuable scientific tool? Absolutely. It's a scandal that all our government has done in the last 20 years…
…a couple of thousand people with no casualties and with high batting percentages of life change, insight, revelation, so forth. So you advocate LSD, or you did? No, I never advocated LSD or any drugs. But I do defend the option of the American citizen to…
…with high batting percentages of life change, insight, revelation, so forth. So you advocate LSD, or you did? No, I never advocated LSD or any drugs. But I do defend the option of the American citizen to make intelligent decisions about who or what to…
…about who or what to put in your body. If it expands your mind, how do you account for negative experiences with LSD? The terrible thing about every form of technology, whether it's nuclear energy or guns or cars or drugs, stupid people use these…
…the other thing. Now, what I have not done is fry my circuits. I have no desire to fry my circuits. My circuits, I've taken LSD 5,000 times. I've held my own. When was it, 1966, when you first attempted to arrest him? No, I have to say, he really…
…I personally think that a lot of that is deliberately triggered off by uh the psychiatrists were warning people say if you take LSD you'll jump out a window people take LSD and say well not in your window you know that's uh that's what you're supposed…
…is deliberately triggered off by uh the psychiatrists were warning people say if you take LSD you'll jump out a window people take LSD and say well not in your window you know that's uh that's what you're supposed to do yeah that's right just uh just…
…a psychosis yeah yeah and then everybody just had a characteristic schizophrenic psychiatrists have gone around saying well if you take LSD you're going to put uh peanut butter in your navel people will take acid and say where's the peanut butter you…
…he shouted in back of the room, what about jumping out windows? And I said to Luria, any fool knows you should never take LSD above the first story. And he thought I was being flippant, but I was simply saying, don't take LSD unless your feet are on…
…fool knows you should never take LSD above the first story. And he thought I was being flippant, but I was simply saying, don't take LSD unless your feet are on the ground. I remember last time I took some, I had a sort of a reprint, an on-print of…
…what we're talking about. A person who has never taken any, never had time really realizing what this... When we first started taking LSD the message was get out of the plastic cities because you don't belong in the cities. So we assumed, ah, we belong…
…belong in the cities. So we assumed, ah, we belong back in nature. So then for three or four years we took, I took LSD perhaps a hundred times in nature. And after a while we began realizing the message was you don't belong here either because uh it's…
…crane it's probably too complex to live in increasingly insectile overpopulated species. So then there's a message became very clear that of LSD which is you don't belong in cities and you don't belong in the countries because it's just a retreat that is…
…don't belong in the countries because it's just a retreat that is time to leave the planet. So that's the message of LSD. It could still be used by government-approved staff to cure anything that ails people, because it will, but we're looking for more…
…about this material as sort of on your mind. That's all right. Material that you have thought about already. Well, we've been talking about LSD, and I had no intention of talking about LSD, and didn't even want to. Yeah. But once we got onto it, I was…
…That's all right. Material that you have thought about already. Well, we've been talking about LSD, and I had no intention of talking about LSD, and didn't even want to. Yeah. But once we got onto it, I was trying to say things about LSD that I'd never…
…intention of talking about LSD, and didn't even want to. Yeah. But once we got onto it, I was trying to say things about LSD that I'd never said before. Let's go on to another topic then, okay? Sure. Good. One of the main topics I've always been…
…is crackle, buzzle, buzz, flash and zap but when conditioning and imprints are suspended as in the case when you take LSD then you do begin to encounter and confront the raw reality. Everything becomes quite electrical. The symbols tend to wilt. Well,…
…we give to the public that discipline and training and a conscientious attempt to express productively is the inevitable result of your LSD experience. And I think that's one of the tragedies that many people take LSD and are so entranced and delighted by…
…productively is the inevitable result of your LSD experience. And I think that's one of the tragedies that many people take LSD and are so entranced and delighted by this internal world that they just turn off the external world. And this inevitably…
…ideas flashing without harnessing it up. And if you don't do that, then you get this endless rumination and you get this so-called LSD freak-out where the person is just spinning around in his own mind. The motto of our religion is turn on, tune in, and…
…isn't recorded in protein historical records inside your body. Even now, when it comes to space exploration, as I have taken LSD and hurtled around inside inner space, there are all sorts of unidentified flying objects in the metaphorical sense that whiz by…
…to anyone else, or they're just meaningless formula. You have to... Have your dark night of the soul. You have to have your LSD flip out. You have to wonder what's real, who am I? And then slowly you're going to have to recapitulate the evolution,…
…I? And then slowly you're going to have to recapitulate the evolution, history of the human race yourself. That's what the challenge of LSD is. And come out with your own prayers, your own rituals, which work for you and your family and perhaps a few…
…Timothy Leary, I don't cross into Mexico carrying pipe. 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... But aren't…
…the United States revolves. And also, after many discussions with him on the subject of drugs and the relevancy of drugs, specifically LSD acid, as a weapon in a revolutionary struggle, I've come to the conclusion that Dr. Leary is irrevocably wed to the…
…a revolutionary struggle, I've come to the conclusion that Dr. Leary is irrevocably wed to the idea of the beneficial aspects of LSD in the context of a revolutionary movement, that he would rather die than give up the idea of changing American society by…
…context of a revolutionary movement, that he would rather die than give up the idea of changing American society by dosing everyone with LSD. Well, this is not a principle or a suggestion that we in the Black Panther Party can in any way endorse, because…
…as responsibilities that we have to take care of. Also, we've noticed that they're very dangerous people because whatever the use of LSD has done to their brains, one thing that it's very clearly done is it has destroyed their ability to make judgments,…
…after 16 hours. But we think that you come to rest with a new snapshot. Now, there's nothing that I'm saying about imprinting or LSD or re-imprinting which is either positive or negative. I'm not here to sell LSD or to sell you on your brain. The more…
…nothing that I'm saying about imprinting or LSD or re-imprinting which is either positive or negative. I'm not here to sell LSD or to sell you on your brain. The more you think about the psychedelic experience in terms of neurological photography, you…
…of objects you want to take pictures of, and so forth. It's obvious, too, that you don't lose your old imprint, because after an LSD session, you come back and you still speak English and you know how to lace your shoes. As a matter of fact, that's…
…our rituals, all of our behaviors, and so forth, are connected with the original imprint. Whereas if a man and his wife take LSD at sunset on their honeymoon, They take a wonderful new picture, but the problem and the challenge is that, of course, they…
…learned and thought about re-imprinting in relationship to psychedelic drugs has led us to increase the cautions that we make about LSD it's a very tricky proposition and before when we thought that a psychedelic session just lasted 12 hours and gave you…
…of taking new pictures which may be quite different from your old pictures and you should be very careful with whom you take LSD and where you take LSD and you should be very well prepared because you're likely to come out of the session, of course,…
…may be quite different from your old pictures and you should be very careful with whom you take LSD and where you take LSD and you should be very well prepared because you're likely to come out of the session, of course, with a purple-colored football,…
…the question, how do you use your head? How often are you going to use your head? How often are you going to take LSD? We often use the concept of serial re-imprinting, and that one concept of man's existence, which might well take hold in the future,…
…course, there's a paradox here because the question, how often should you reprogram your nervous system? How often should you take LSD? It's your present robot snapshot identity which is deciding when it's going to change itself. And this accounts, I think,…
…session an intense, awful fear has been cheated by their psychiatrist or their bootlegger. One way of deciding how often to take LSD in this utopian world of the future is not to let your mind decide, because I'm suggesting that the genetic code wants…
…Rather than letting your mind decide, why not let your body decide? And here's a fascinating aspect of the pharmacology of LSD. You can't take LSD every day. That is, you can't keep your neurological camera just going in this kaleidoscopic fashion for…
…your mind decide, why not let your body decide? And here's a fascinating aspect of the pharmacology of LSD. You can't take LSD every day. That is, you can't keep your neurological camera just going in this kaleidoscopic fashion for more than 12 or 15…
…going in this kaleidoscopic fashion for more than 12 or 15 or 20 hours. There's what's called a refractory period. If you take LSD today, you have to wait five, six, seven, or eight days before you can have another psychedelic effect. In other words, if…
…then the nervous system is ready for another reprogramming. So that it may well be in the utopian world of the future that LSD and similar foods, and chemicals will be used just as vitamins are used today, and it's possible that every seven days you'll…
…LSD and similar foods, and chemicals will be used just as vitamins are used today, and it's possible that every seven days you'll take LSD and bring your picture up to date. The time is running out for the radio program, and I'm going to rush to the…
…that we know almost nothing about our own heads or how to use them. And anyone who tells you he knows much about LSD, of course, he's really talking about the potentialities of his brain, should be listened to with great caution. Because a human species…
…to run large research projects or to get involved in any external politics which would attempt to raise money for research grants or to get LSD accepted by the FDA and so forth. Your main job and my main job is to save your own head and to learn how…
…years ago. This book, The Psychedelic Experience, is based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is an eminently practical LSD guide, although it's 2,500 years old. The third conclusion is that as you detach yourself from some completed investment in…
…a much deeper appreciation for one of the oldest and most basic of human enterprises, and that is the male-female relationship. LSD is the most powerful aphrodisiac ever known to man. Now it's interesting, some clapped and some didn't. Let me explain what…
…may be a little bit worried if her husband has an illicit sexual affair, but real grounds for divorce will be if he takes LSD with another woman. So here, the mystery comes full circle, because the paradox is that the more you use your head the more…
…certain aspects of yourself that flip you up so weird and freaky that you're gonna scream for a doctor and run. The so-called LSD psychosis, of course, is an example of someone who probably would have had this happen anyway, but who has stumbled onto one…
…lower intestine that is filled with decaying and rotting food that was down there in this part of our body. But when you take LSD, you are aware, can become aware, of this brute biological fact. I remember the first time this was brought home to me was…
…aware, of this brute biological fact. I remember the first time this was brought home to me was the first time we ever gave LSD to Richard Alpert when we were at Harvard. And we went to his apartment, and we were having a fine experience there. And…
…is the maha yoga. This, in the future, will be the key yoga. And the child will be taught. You can't start taking LSD in first grade, junior, until you've mastered the 20 yogas. Of course, when I say master, I'm using the Ramacharanaji. These 21 paths…
…had a period there. I guess the worst thing that happened to you was there were some people who committed suicide with LSD, right? The Art Linkletter daughter case and the like. Well, she actually didn't kill herself. She hadn't taken LSD for six months.…
…with LSD, right? The Art Linkletter daughter case and the like. Well, she actually didn't kill herself. She hadn't taken LSD for six months. Yes, there's no question that people got tremendously confused and hurt themselves and killed themselves during that…
…we don't know. How should the society use the psychedelic equipment it has at hand? Ideally, how should the society use LSD? I testified in 1963 before Teddy Kennedy's committee answering that same question, and I said that psychedelic drugs, which include…
…people? You mean the mind expansion of the 60s? Yeah. Well, see, the interesting thing is, Larry... that the whole culture is LSD. For example, in the late 60s, we were running these psychedelic light shows in which we were trying to express the color…
…I was wondering if you had tried ecstasy and what you thought of it and also how you would or if you would compare it to LSD. Yeah, of course, I'm not anxious to talk about drugs a lot, but I know I have to because that's the turf that I've charted…
…then. It's a drug which apparently most people creates a sense of deep empathy. The difference between this and hallucinogens like LSD is that... There's no alteration of reality. It's a very clear, clear thinking experience. It was made illegal about six…
…rather than Larry. How are you doing? Hi. Hi. Dr. O'Leary, you said earlier in the show that today an equal number of people use LSD as they did back in the 60s. I heard that the LSD that people use nowadays is pushed off as being LSD, but is really…
…said earlier in the show that today an equal number of people use LSD as they did back in the 60s. I heard that the LSD that people use nowadays is pushed off as being LSD, but is really PCP because of the difficulty in making the LSD and the…
…of people use LSD as they did back in the 60s. I heard that the LSD that people use nowadays is pushed off as being LSD, but is really PCP because of the difficulty in making the LSD and the supplies are difficult to find. Is that true? Well, it was…
…that the LSD that people use nowadays is pushed off as being LSD, but is really PCP because of the difficulty in making the LSD and the supplies are difficult to find. Is that true? Well, it was the government that said this. I didn't say that. See,…
…Hello. Larry? Yeah. First-time caller, long-term listener. Hi. I want to ask Dr. O'Leary what he feels about the efficacy of LSD in personal psychological development under... In therapy, basically. Yeah, how effective is it? When it was legal to do this,…
…to ask Dr. I wouldn't give him that much material or whatever. How does it account for the lives that were ruined by his LSD in Boston College? I personally know two girls that were twins, and this goes back a few years, that he ruined by his…
…maybe got polio. Were there people harmed by your experiments? I mean, no question there were. But not by my experiments. By use of LSD, probably street LSD, yes... No question of it. But no one you know of in your own. And I feel very, very sorry…
…Were there people harmed by your experiments? I mean, no question there were. But not by my experiments. By use of LSD, probably street LSD, yes... No question of it. But no one you know of in your own. And I feel very, very sorry that anyone had one…
…is occurring right now, and the drugs of the 80s are going to make the drugs of the 60s look like clumsy Graf Zeppelis, LSD. LSD was a very clumsy drug, you know, particularly the Olsby stuff. Yeah. Oh wow, not here, but it was high altitude, high…
…right now, and the drugs of the 80s are going to make the drugs of the 60s look like clumsy Graf Zeppelis, LSD. LSD was a very clumsy drug, you know, particularly the Olsby stuff. Yeah. Oh wow, not here, but it was high altitude, high velocity…
…never knew. Oh, between 200 and 400 micrograms, yeah. Plus or minus, oh, give or take, minus seven, who knows. Today, as you know, the LSD is put out in smaller units so that you may have to take six, seven, or eight and build it up, and it gives…
…we're getting smarter, we're learning how to shift and brake and navigate better. So you're not hearing any... You're not hearing any LSD capture stories today because, you know, we're all getting pretty smart about that. Now, drugs of the 80s are going to…
…crimes. Fast as we discovered a new way to get high, they passed a law against it. You know, we were working with LSD for six years before they passed a law against it, so that was kind of an interesting situation. That's why I deliberately don't…
…very modest person and a very Extremely wise and intelligent person. He's never been busted, for example. Although he gave LSD to over 700 people, thousands of administrations, never any problems, including people like Cary Grant and Jack Nicholson. You know,…
…problems, including people like Cary Grant and Jack Nicholson. You know, many of you probably don't know, in the high point of LSD advertising, we had the number one product commercial endorser that anyone would possibly want. We had a man going around the…
…advertising, we had the number one product commercial endorser that anyone would possibly want. We had a man going around the country saying, LSD has changed my life. LSD has made me this and made me that. You know who it was? Cary Grant. Do you…
…one product commercial endorser that anyone would possibly want. We had a man going around the country saying, LSD has changed my life. LSD has made me this and made me that. You know who it was? Cary Grant. Do you remember that? How about a round…
…Do you remember that? How about a round of applause for good old Cary? Anyway, the definition of the clinical effects of LSD. Oscar Channinger gave, let's say, LSD sessions to over 700 people. He had them questionnaires, interviews, had a team of semantic…
…round of applause for good old Cary? Anyway, the definition of the clinical effects of LSD. Oscar Channinger gave, let's say, LSD sessions to over 700 people. He had them questionnaires, interviews, had a team of semantic psychologists do content analyses to…
…after all this clinical psychometric work, came up with a list of the words most commonly used by people to describe their LSD experiences. That's kind of an interesting issue, isn't it? Now, one concept that was used by almost everyone that took LSD The…
…LSD experiences. That's kind of an interesting issue, isn't it? Now, one concept that was used by almost everyone that took LSD The number one concept was it's all alive. With the implication that it's all got intelligence. It's all communicating. It's not…