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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.
…time I had a really long discussion with you, Elvis Huxley was on election day in 1980, the night that Kennedy defeated Nixon. And we went out to dinner with another English psychiatrist named Humphrey Osmond, who just happened to have invented the word…
…this, who would want to be president? The last seven presidents have all, all been destroyed. Reagan, look at it, Carter, Ford, Nixon, right down the line. The presidency is finished, no one can possibly, we want a queen. I'd vote for, I'd vote for…
…now tells us that in any second it can go in how many different lengths? Yeah. That was a mistake made. Nobody gave it to Nixon. Well, in order to know whether mistakes were made, you have to know what the goal is. And if you can define a goal, I…
…see him in Switzerland where Tim was living in exile after escaping prison and being called the most dangerous man alive in America by Nixon, who was seriously trying to hunt him down. My dad and Tim took acid and went skiing, and my dad pulled out a…
…go to Chicago because we had kicked LBJ out. Kennedy and Humphrey were running. It looked as though they were going to win. Nixon seemed... I deplored, as I knew there would be a police riot there, which I think that Chicago really put Nixon in office,…
…to win. Nixon seemed... I deplored, as I knew there would be a police riot there, which I think that Chicago really put Nixon in office, and I felt very sad about that. There were many great events that happened. Woodstock, of course, where you had half…
…all know, and I have not been doing research on that. Naturally, people are interested in this subject. They're always going to ask Nixon about Watergate. They're always going to ask me about the 60s, and that's part of it. I just thought you might have…
…70s, I did what everybody else did. I went to jail along with Liddy and Mitchell and all my friends from the Nixon administration. How's that? I'm really a middle-of-the-road person. In the 80s, I'm on computers. And another thing I think, I don't think…
…there. I think it was 1968 or 69. John was not allowed in the country then because of some minor marijuana squabble over, and Nixon was president here. Yeah. And we did Give Peace a Chance. There were five of us in this bedroom. Oh, you were in there?…
…There'll be an uprising of black militants. Well, hire them. Good. I mean, that's just what we need to elect Nixon, right? No, we won't. We'll dispense with such low-level soap operas. We're talking here about... long-term genetic gene pool conspiracies…
…that we can have the pride that Americans used to feel. Now, as I look around since I've been back, I don't see that Mr. Nixon or the Democrats have a program that's going to lead us into the third century with this vigor that we need. We'll limp or…
…busted by, is this stealing your material? Tim gets busted by Gordon Liddy. Liddy ends up in the White House. I mean, busting Nixon. Tim and Liddy both are in jail. Tim and Liddy both end up with the same lecture agent. One creative thought and there's…
…end up with the same lecture agent. One creative thought and there's a whole year of Liddy versus Larry. Liddy really busted Nixon based on breaking into Dan Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Tim and I were partners in this minuet, then we turned to our…
…hell out of the country. And if the Nazis could have caught Einstein, they probably would have dragged him back to exterminate him. Nixon had his police chase leery all over the world. I think the main lesson to be learned from this is don't believe the…
…invasions of European countries to bring back the culprits, to put them on trial here. There's no government, not even Nixon came back and we have a government that crazy. They're just grandstanding and that represents real freedom. Whenever Good morning.
…what happened was we reawoke the sleeping conscience of America. The United States voluntarily removed its military power from Vietnam and threw Nixon out of the White House. All of a sudden, it became very difficult to say who the enemy was anymore. Who's…
…when he was running for president. the Peace and Freedom ticket. He was running against, I don't know, he was running against Nixon, yeah. Now, I think Eldridge would have then and would now make a better candidate for president than most of them. You…
…a war, they can't win. What they do is they get elected by saying they want to fight that war. They get re-elected, as Nixon did, and we all knew, after Nixon got re-elected, they were going to end the war. Now Bush was elected, you know, he's not…
…they do is they get elected by saying they want to fight that war. They get re-elected, as Nixon did, and we all knew, after Nixon got re-elected, they were going to end the war. Now Bush was elected, you know, he's not a wimp, look what he did to…
…that we can have the pride that Americans used to feel. Now, as I look around since I've been back, I don't see that Mr. Nixon or the Democrats have a program that's going to lead us into the third century with this vigor that we need. We'll limp or…
…dumber and dumber. 500 year anniversaries of Frank Sinatra and John Denver singing in Las Vegas. President Reagan, President Nixon in the audience, because in our boardroom we would have redirected him. Obviously, space migration, life extension, everything we…
…can get crack. Anyway, the addictive drugs, the Republican drugs, that gets the gangsters and the prices go up. I guess it was Nixon who referred to you as one of the most dangerous men in America. I'm so proud of that. What about, there are obviously…
…I should also say, and maybe your viewers don't know, that Art became a very, very outspoken right-wing person and ended up in the Nixon White House as an authority on drugs on the basis of this tragic experience. So that, yes, on the one hand, I had…
…about life and take her own life All right, I think it was you that caused her new hypocrisy. And you got to the Nixon White House, didn't you, because you became, on the basis of his daughter's death, he rides into the Nixon White House. That's good.…
…And you got to the Nixon White House, didn't you, because you became, on the basis of his daughter's death, he rides into the Nixon White House. That's good. Oh, stop. I will throw you off the show if you don't listen to these questions. In your view,…
…was then promoted on the basis of having stopped the drug menace in Dutchess County, New York, promoted or demoted to the Nixon White House. where he went on to make other midnight raids, which are of equal dubious legality. And I've always seen Liddy…
…dubious legality. And I've always seen Liddy as my rival. I like to personalize things. Liddy was the most intelligent man in the Nixon White House. Now, that's not saying much. He's the most literate. And always I knew that Liddy and I were going to...…
…images through the media, and that the forces of repression actually became the victors in that struggle with the beginning of the Nixon administration. In the second part of this program, Dr. Leary tells us that the tide has turned now, and that it is…
…Leary by the balls for smoking pot, like Guy Goodwin, do they drink cocktails? 30. Does Leary see himself spiritual president, like Nixon? And is he trying to clean the carpet blackboard by creating a hippie water gig? Will he be pardoned by the next…
…something. We have reached the escape velocity. I love that word, escape velocity. I spent almost four years in prison during the Nixon administration and I'm rather proud of that. I was considered to be a very very dangerous prisoner. When I was moved…
…and limitless space to build new ecological niches to fabricate new social realities and new personal realities. So after Kennedy, though, when Nixon got in power, Nixon didn't want us up there high. He had his own name on the pocket up there, but Nixon…
…new ecological niches to fabricate new social realities and new personal realities. So after Kennedy, though, when Nixon got in power, Nixon didn't want us up there high. He had his own name on the pocket up there, but Nixon systematically sabotaged outer…
…Nixon got in power, Nixon didn't want us up there high. He had his own name on the pocket up there, but Nixon systematically sabotaged outer space the way he sabotaged inner space. It's an interesting correlation that very few people have understood. You…
…I'm not out on parole at the moment. I'm out on bail. I'm still fighting my case. There are still remnants of the Nixon administration in office who are continuing to give me problems, but I'm going to stay out of prison. I've no doubt about that.…
…you win, it's only sportsmanlike to acknowledge the dedication and the courage and the skill of the other team, as I do to Nixon Agnew, so forth, because he certainly left a legacy, he left an image there that's that's going to make America Free for the…
…you can do except try to get brown elected in 73 and 76, and I also knew that I'd never get out of federal prison until Nixon was replaced so that I I didn't get out of the grip of an evil administration. In April 76 when I got out I was released…
…that you know if you're just simply breaking the law and the problem was though that there were some remnants of the Nixon Administration still around in the justice department, including a judge in Texas that would not give me bail and the reason the…
…have and if you don't really want it you're still getting up in your confederate gray and charging out like a hippie to overthrow Nixon. I mean really it's all been done, relax. We now have this idea of the two cultures. Is over. We now have a new…
…see it more as a vision. Now I don't know but that's the way I'm picking you up. How about the 50 bill? I think Nixon should be on and I agree with Timothy much earlier where he was saying we ought to thank those gentlemen for winning those wars. I…
…John and Yoko were always in close touch with me. John could not come in America. He had a minor marijuana beef in England, so Nixon wouldn't let him in. And when I was allowed to leave the country, I went up to Montreal, and I was there. Five of us…
…year so I was released from the California prisons when Jerry Brown won over Reagan and I was freed from the federal prisons when Nixon was kicked out and Ford came in. So when you went back into prison you had no idea for how long that might be.…
…or whatever. Well, to tell you the truth, I was trying to escape again, and I was working on plots of that. But fortunately, Nixon was forced out. All of this, by the way, this is bad B-movie stuff. And I've written a book called Flashbacks, and it's…
…kept busting us. He kept raiding us. And he did indeed run us out of the county. Now for this he was promoted. to the Nixon White House as the world's leading drug expert. So in a sense, I feel I helped Mr. Leary's career, and between the two of us,…
…expert. So in a sense, I feel I helped Mr. Leary's career, and between the two of us, we helped bring down the Nixon administration. As you are about to learn, Timothy Leary and I disagree on virtually everything it is possible to disagree on in this…
…the corner from where you said you sat. Yeah, in the room 16, probably. Because I was in the big office. You know where Nixon kept the tape? Yes, I do. Now, that was one year. Yeah, my son recruited me into the effort. Yeah, your son graduated from…
…advocating chaos i mean you don't have people in a position of power, but you have groups as opposed to one man, Nixon. For purple mountain majesty, above the fruited plain. America, America, God shed his grace on thee, and crowned thy good with…
…central issues and I'm sorry we can't talk to you uh on a name basis but I would suggest to you that just as we owe Nixon a lesson I mean he's there as an example of how not to go Hitler's like the extreme, ridiculous savage uh concept that we have…
…Don't you think? Don't you think we've dealt with uh in nineteen sixty eight we had a system a government elected it was Nixon Agnew Whoever was in FBI Don't you think we learned how to to knock that uh system out? Don't you think we demonstrated…