Timothy Leary
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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.
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Lecture from the 1980s2 mentions
19:09
…brain activating substances. Now, in those 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…
19:13
…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 Aldous. Here comes…
Leary and Alpert Harvard Reunion1 mention
30:32
…a few moments of fright. Ships lost aloft. Aldous, where are you? Where'd Aldous go? Oh, yeah. Here's Aldous, there's Wilbur and Orville. We kept careful records and we made thoughtful observations and came out with many important theories of…
Interview with Larry King1 mention
31:15
…Thousands tried it and failed. Christopher Columbus said, go over the sea. Hundreds of thousands of people have died. Orville and Wilbur had their little boat there and they were sticking together down there in North Carolina. Gosh, you know, hundreds of…
The Final Taboo1 mention
10:32
…He's way ahead of us. Yeah, right. Okay, we were very naive, you know. We had this funny, crazy, mixed-up notion. It's a Wilbur Orville Wright notion. We were convinced in our hearts They laughed at us. We were convinced that human beings could fly. Hey!…
At The Stone1 mention
26:19
…us there. But we did have this conviction. We started using drugs. And we didn't know what we were doing. We were like Wilbur and Orville. Hey, here's Aldous Huxley. Hey, you want to take a trip? Okay. Okay, Aldous. Are you ready? There goes Aldous.…