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.
…in a cell in Postal Prison and the next day I was with Charles Manson and some wild things happened. they came to Socrates and said stop saying that Socrates you're corrupting the minds of youth there is no self there is no knowledge obey Believe.…
…and the next day I was with Charles Manson and some wild things happened. they came to Socrates and said stop saying that Socrates you're corrupting the minds of youth there is no self there is no knowledge obey Believe. Socrates would not be stopped. He…
…said stop saying that Socrates you're corrupting the minds of youth there is no self there is no knowledge obey Believe. Socrates would not be stopped. He said, know thyself. Know thyself. Know thyself. Operate your mind. Operate your brain. The multimedia…
…a month. I have... Americans don't die well, do they? In this culture. Well, other cultures have, you know, faced this. Socrates, on his deathbed, Socrates was giving those famous words, Think of yourself, but you're sorry. The name of the human life…
…have... Americans don't die well, do they? In this culture. Well, other cultures have, you know, faced this. Socrates, on his deathbed, Socrates was giving those famous words, Think of yourself, but you're sorry. The name of the human life is to be that…
…will be known for its graduates or its... What chutzpah he has, it's unbelievable. What was the name of that college that fired Socrates, Richard? We're going to make sure that Harvard's name will go down in history. When we left Harvard, by the way, you…
…the outs, an outcast, a rebel. So I glorify... What kind of jobs have philosophers had? They've been on the run. You know, Socrates, Einstein was on the run, Freud. Not that I'm comparing myself to him, but... I don't hear any sound. Lost the sound.…
…every 100, 500 years, it happens again. It happened in Italy in the, what, the 14th century. It happened in Athens with Socrates. People get together and say, we're going to start something new. This was a wonderful movement because by 1976 we had stopped…
…makes an imprint upon your nervous system vivid enough has reincarnated within you. So he thought he had reincarnated everybody from Socrates to Aleister Crowley, who made a really strong imprint on his nervous system. And in that sense, Timothy, I think,…
…years ago, a group of human beings in Athens, Greece, developed a new philosophy. The basic religion of humanity is called humanism. Socrates said, the aim of human life is to know thyself. Create and design your own order in the chaos. Socrates did not…
…humanism. Socrates said, the aim of human life is to know thyself. Create and design your own order in the chaos. Socrates did not give commandments. Socrates did not impose order. Socrates asked questions. He encouraged his friends to speculate, to design,…
…of human life is to know thyself. Create and design your own order in the chaos. Socrates did not give commandments. Socrates did not impose order. Socrates asked questions. He encouraged his friends to speculate, to design, to create, to interact, their…
…thyself. Create and design your own order in the chaos. Socrates did not give commandments. Socrates did not impose order. Socrates asked questions. He encouraged his friends to speculate, to design, to create, to interact, their own versions of reality.…
…asked questions. He encouraged his friends to speculate, to design, to create, to interact, their own versions of reality. Socrates said the way to perform philosophy Changing. Changing your mind. Growing together. Thinking together. Religious leaders said, you…
…defendants? Legal. The hundreds of rape trials throughout the South where black men were condemned to death, all legal. Jesus, legal. Socrates, legal. And that is the kaleidoscopic nature of what we live through here and in other places. Because all tyrants…
…basically, trust your friends. Think for yourself. People ask me, should I do this, should I do that? And my answer, Socrates said it. think for yourself and question authority and uh... don't following doctor lawyer uh... not not late-night guys pretty…
…a war spider? No, but I'd sell. They asked the Orca Delta, who's the wisest person in Greece? And as they came back, Socrates. Now, lights up a little, please. Socrates came out with the first bumper sticker. Think for yourself. The end of human life.…
…They asked the Orca Delta, who's the wisest person in Greece? And as they came back, Socrates. Now, lights up a little, please. Socrates came out with the first bumper sticker. Think for yourself. The end of human life. Who the fuck do you think you…
…that I was one of the first ten psychologists in this country to recognize the power of a group that all came back to Socrates, a small group together, was known as group therapy. I looked at the old pages of the LA directory, and there's like a half…
…watch TV. Well, I admit that sometimes at the end of the month, but... My profession doesn't pay well. I learned that from Socrates. The profession of corrupting the minds of youth, you know, it's not well paid. Hard job somebody has to do. I can watch…
…their societal duty to do it, I find that at the best, highly amusing, and comic, and the worst, shockingly enslaving. And Socrates' technique, as you know, he didn't know what was going on, he simply raised questions. And I don't really know what's going…
…is going on? And of course, it was one of the great moments of literary history for me was to read of the death of Socrates, in which he was forced to drink the hemlock because he had corrupted the youth. How? With what? How did he corrupt the youth?…
…with impious ideas, reverent ideas, ideas that would get them questioning the gods and the establishments of the... Athenian aristocracy. So Socrates has always been one of my role models. So far I've kept one, I've done five years in prison, I've kept…
…that they could relate to. And so he stated that he thought that he should be projected as the Aristotle or the Socrates or the Sartre of the American Revolution. And I think that kind of... symbolizes or typifies how Dr. Leary has constantly tried…
…hope we provided some thoughts. I might say, by the way, there's nothing wrong with making people laugh in a very provocative way. Socrates did it, Lenny Bruce did it, Marcel did it. As a matter of fact, some of the great philosophers of all time were…
…philosopher. It's up to me to figure out, you know, what are the elements or what life is all about. You remember Socrates said, the purpose of an intelligent human life is self-discovery. Now, how come that funny little peninsula there, yet Sparta a few…
…said the way to perform philosophy Changing. Changing your mind. Growing together. Thinking together. Religious leaders said, you can't say that, Socrates. The gods are in control. Who are you to say you have to sell? How dare you think you can know?…
…are you to say you have to sell? How dare you think you can know? Gods. Sacrifice to the gods, obey the gods. Socrates said, no, look within. For that, they gave Socrates the hemlock because he dared to tell people. Think for yourself, you must learn…
…you think you can know? Gods. Sacrifice to the gods, obey the gods. Socrates said, no, look within. For that, they gave Socrates the hemlock because he dared to tell people. Think for yourself, you must learn how to reprogram, reform, inform your own…