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.
…one, how they have controlled society with their books and their Bibles and their NBC networks. But the press in this country, William Burroughs, by the way. How many of you hear of William Burroughs? Burroughs has so many great lines. I'll give you three…
…Bibles and their NBC networks. But the press in this country, William Burroughs, by the way. How many of you hear of William Burroughs? Burroughs has so many great lines. I'll give you three Burroughs lines. One is an old man talking to his son. Same…
…And right now we're actually doing a software project for Neuromancer. We've got lined up as writers a project, people like William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, and other people. I'm using Gibson. I think Gibson is one of the most... See, Gibson comes from a…
…I think Gibson is one of the most... See, Gibson comes from a line of literature which comes from James Joyce to William Burroughs to Thomas Pynchon to Philip Dick, and then you've got Gibson and you've got the other... And I would throw Robert Arthur…
…Watts, and many wonderful Hindu and Buddhist teachers, and wonderful prophets, and experts in freedom from the beatnik 15, like William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, I'm sure you're aware of the enormous amount of wisdom that collected there to try to guide…
…certain good figures. They never put it on a cover because no one would buy it. So that's one roundabout answer to your question. William Burroughs, by the way, who was my guru, and my, boy, I just, he's always been so far ahead of me, every turn of…
…is being written right now. The first book of Genesis was written by James Joyce. The second book was written by William Burroughs. The third was written by Thomas Hitchens, Gravity's Rainbow. And the fourth was written by William Gibson. And I can…
…a mind movie that involved Keith Haring and Bro Bair, the wonderful unit artists and all this in Pasadena. And script by William Burroughs, script by Gibson, script by me. And we're going to tell you a little script from Huxley, too. They said they were…
…Ginsberg. I remember when Allen came to Harvard, glory to my, hey, Allen Ginsberg, how about that? Spent the afternoon with William Burroughs. Hey, there's a... You know, you go to some people's houses, they have these chakras, you know, where all the, you…
…know, you go to some people's houses, they have these chakras, you know, where all the, you know, spine and all that. William Burroughs has a profile of a human body, which is used for revolver practice. Don't leave house without being warmed. Well, I…
…done every day since we've been here in Boulder. I've got four interviews and running around and spend a lot of time with William Burroughs and here and then give you a lecture and then zipping and zapping. So yes, I enjoy the... the eight hours that…
…is being written right now. The first book of Genesis was written by James Joyce. The second book was written by William Burroughs. The third was written by Thomas Hitchin, Gravity's Rainbow. And the fourth was written by William Gibson. And I can…
…was a mind movie that involved Keith Haring and Grover, the wonderful unit artists and all this in Pasadena. And script by William Burroughs, script by Gibson, script by me. And we're going to tell you a little script from Huxley, too. They said they…
…ears and eyeballs popping. You go to the bar. Now, excuse me, you can imagine, see, if we had He had William Burroughs describing, you know, a scene that he'd taken Bernadette in with, you know, 20-foot-tall chromium boys with aluminum penises spurting…
…anthropologist, filmmaker, and hermetic alchemist. His last week at Breslin Hotel, Manhattan, January 12, 1985, transforming milk into milk. William Burroughs, the Sphinx himself at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Egyptian collection. I saw Bill…
…of openness, some sense of camaraderie and adhesiveness, as Walt Whitman said. On the other hand, there might be the skeptic. Burroughs. Skeptical of all that adhesiveness. He's not quite sure of 1961. Think what you think. Think what you think. Touch whom…
…Wendell Holmes, you know. I think we must pay tribute to, as we always do, to the writers like Ginsburg and William Burroughs. In the second revolution, Mark Twain was probably the most outspoken advocate of brain navigation. Indeed, he taught Ulysses S.…
…this is not a place where you're supposed to mention things like cocaine. So I won't. I'm not a great fan of cocaine. As William Burroughs said to me, I don't like any drug that makes me twitch. The enemy of the second, we've got our war on drugs…
…very optimistic and I'm working very hard with my friends like Brum Baer and George-Jan Deen These artists and writers like William Burroughs their teams is working together to produce these programs that hopefully will Help us think more clearly and to get…
…Bar, I think it was like 13, 14 years ago. So Paul and Barbara and I used to hang out together quite a bit. When William Burroughs came into town, we spent all of our time with him. And then one night, it was October 22nd, my birthday, I think it…
…where kings and Kongs had climbed too quickly, too fast. Now, the next poem I'm going to read of Paul's was written for William Burroughs. And I called William today and told him, Paul, that we were going to be here. And he sent much love because Paul…
…much love because Paul and I are joined in many things, not the least of which are our devotion to the great poet William Burroughs. Okay, this is for William Burroughs. It's titled Horse on the Racecourse. Six, six, six. In my hand, a rock. Cold. Not…
…joined in many things, not the least of which are our devotion to the great poet William Burroughs. Okay, this is for William Burroughs. It's titled Horse on the Racecourse. Six, six, six. In my hand, a rock. Cold. Not Gibraltar. Taiwan. Now, in the last…
…a student at West Point. Tell us about the 50s. A person stands out in an event from the 50s. Well, the beatnik poems... William Burroughs, who was the great writer of the 50s, taught me a great deal. He showed us that you could take words and cut…
…of fact, it would be dangerous to kill all the smallpox in the world because if we did that, and as William Burroughs likes to say, somewhere in the government laboratories, there are refrigerated smallpox germs and within two generations the human species…
…yesterday afternoon at Bill Burrow's place. with John Steinbeck. And we just discussed the mortality, which was the subject of William Burroughs' seminar yesterday. Is there a box still there for you, Alan? No, no. I'll just go over it. After you've…
…Second Experience. It was based upon the Tibetan book of, I prefer to say, the dying. And it's no accident that William Burroughs was lecturing yesterday and today about immortality based on the Egyptian model of... Alan, does William base some of his…
…of Mailer's book I looked at, I wasn't impressed by. It was simply a sign of my ignorance. And after talking to William Burroughs, I'm inspired I'm going to re-read that because apparently there's a lot of thought and a lot of accurate transmission of…
…into your brain. And for years... By the way, yesterday afternoon, you weren't there, Alan, but William and David and I went over to Burroughs and we had a discussion about death and about the options and how Best way, if you want to die, how to do…
…of new understanding and consciousness. Artists and philosophers from around the world came to trip with Leary at Millbrook. William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and beatnik legend Neil Cassidy. Everyone came looking to find answers to all the…
…saw we were doing something good. And he's also the, ironically enough, he's the godfather of the new cyber computer punk business. William Burroughs is one of the great, great people of our time. And he was kind enough to write an introduction. Now, can…
…studio and I told the technicians, listen, give me a computerized voice. And it starts off by saying, see, I've been doing William Burroughs imitations for years. One of the great William Burroughs lines, he said, my father said to me, boy, stay out of…
…computerized voice. And it starts off by saying, see, I've been doing William Burroughs imitations for years. One of the great William Burroughs lines, he said, my father said to me, boy, stay out of the churches because they're shithouses they got the key…
…so they computerized my voice and I read on the tape William's introduction to the book it was a very computerized imitation of William Burroughs which made him laugh three more things I'm going to say before I read one is that To explain why I have…
…sorry, right? So it's really simple. It's like, it's child's play. It's fun. It's subversive. And there's Brian Geising and William Burroughs, Gregory Corsa, and other people in the 60s said when they were living in Paris and began experimenting with audio…
…about the options and how Best way, if you want to die, how to do it, and so forth. Extraordinary conversation. And as Burroughs is saying, I hope I'm not distorting his message, that he's not the first person to say it, that unless you really…
…Lily is addicted I mean How does it compare with Latin gas, blackout? It's similar. Yeah. See, we had this fascinating discussion with Burroughs yesterday in which... By the way, I must tell you that women don't like ketamine by and large as much as men…