Saturday 13 August 2011

Timothy Leary Speaking At Harvard Law School (1966)


"The only abuse of drugs is the control of drugs by other people. ...The only control is self-control."

"There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into "my body.
Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity."