…a tradition that said, Turn on, tune in, go within, become self-reliant. A tradition that was perhaps founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson. You know, Emerson's an interesting person. Emerson came to the Harvard Divinity School in, I believe, 1838. Before that,…

…in, go within, become self-reliant. A tradition that was perhaps founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson. You know, Emerson's an interesting person. Emerson came to the Harvard Divinity School in, I believe, 1838. Before that, he'd been in Europe, where he had hung…

…little later that we discovered that the tradition of transcendent thinking, the tradition of mind-expanding chemistry was not limited to Emerson or Thoreau or to Margaret Fuller, one of the first great American feminist philosophers who also had spent some…

…Harvard, there have only been two men who have been fired. Is that true? Really? I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Emerson doesn't count. He was like... on long sabbatical. Whether it's a fact or not, I love the image. It's a serious question in…

…light. Who controls your eyeballs? Who controls your mind? We're also passing on in this demonstration the message of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the first and probably the greatest American philosopher, who said, divinity lies within. Don't look to the churches or…

…took place in Cambridge, the enemy then was people like Houghton Mather and the Salem witchcraft trials, and then later came Ralph Waldo Emerson, who a very close Dutch, Michael Horowitz, can give you the Fingerprints and dates and all this. He had a very…

…David Henry Thoreau. He went to jail for passive, non-violent resistance to the government of Washington, D.C. And by the time when Emerson came and said, what are you doing in there? And he says, what are you doing out there, Ralph? You know why…

…the people that you meet in prison. And I learned a lot. I'm not advocating prison, but I learned a lot from it. Ralph Waldo Emerson was visited by a friend of his who had the same philosophy. It was Thoreau, David Thoreau. And Emerson was in prison,…

…lot from it. Ralph Waldo Emerson was visited by a friend of his who had the same philosophy. It was Thoreau, David Thoreau. And Emerson was in prison, and Thoreau said to him, what are you doing in prison? And he looked at Thoreau and said, what are…

…not agree. In 1963, Leary was dismissed. It had been a century since Harvard had fired a professor, the last being Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was fired for telling students to leave the church and find their own God. Leary gladly left, claiming that his…

…famous there than here. Coming from Harvard, as I used to, it was a source of great amusement to realize that Ralph Waldo Emerson, who really started the American Transcendental Movement, who got kicked out of Harvard, I think it was 1838, because he went…