Showing posts with label Timothy Leary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Timothy Leary. Show all posts
Monday, 5 September 2011
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Live At The Inside Edge (1982)
This is a talk given by Dr. Timothy Leary sometime late in 1991 or in 1992 at The Inside Edge in Orange County, California. Among the challenging ideas Dr. Leary presented was his thought that: "As soon as you belong to a system where you're not known individually, and where you don't know, individually, the other people, you are by definition depersonalizing yourself, a robot cog of the Big Machine."
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
Timothy Leary At Cornell (1989)
Timothy Leary At Cornell - 23 April 1989
“The first very dangerous side effect of psychedelic drugs is long term memory gain. And the second is short term memory loss. And I forget the third.”
“Now think about jazz. What’s jazz about? Jazz is about singularity, about creating your own rhythm, improvising, doing your own riffs, innovating. Hey, that’s exactly what quantum physics is all about.”
“The fact that you become an individual, and think singular thoughts, doesn’t mean you can’t be understood.”
“No matter how crazy, fucked-up an individual can be, he can’t be as fucked up as the Catholic Church.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
Albert Hofmann Foundation (1988)
Timothy Leary & Ram Dass
This recording is from the second half of an event that was held on July 24, 1988 to raise money for the Albert Hofmann Foundation
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
The Cyber Society (1987)
In this 1987 talk, Dr. Timothy Leary talks about the progression of technology that has brought humans to a new plateau of consciousness. And we also hear a personal, 1995 message from Eldridge Cleaver to Timothy Leary on a rather surprising subject.
“The Cyber Society is a society made up of individuals who think for themselves, linked up with other individuals who think for themselves.”
Following the talk by Dr. Leary Lorenzo plays a short personal message from Eldrige Cleaver to Timothy Leary that was recorded on January 7, 1995. The message Cleaver was so intensely trying to convey to his friend, Tim Leary, was that he believed it was imperative that the U.S. elect a woman president in the year 2000.
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
Question Authority & Think For Yourself (1987)
Timothy Leary - Question Authority & Think For Yourself - Fort Worth, Texas 1987
“If you’re going to think for yourself, you gotta learn to think clearly.”
“Now in the Industrial Age, a good person was someone who was prompt, reliable, dependable, productive, efficient, and replaceable.”
“It’s always the artists, by the way, I think. The artists, and the entertainers, and the writers, and the musicians whose job it is to prepare society, to become a comfortable way for changes that otherwise would be too frightening.”
“The point of the 20th century, you can argue, is to get us to accept knowledge, processing, and reality on screens.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
Timothy Leary: Live At The Stone (1987)
“At those moments in human history where it’s time for our species to confront a new reality, whether it’s going from four foot to two foot, or it’s to make love face-to-face or whatever, there’s a certain breed of human beings in every gene pool who come along at that time and make us feel comfortable. They explain, they personalize, they popularize what’s really happening. Now you know who these people are. They are the artists, the musicians, the playwrights, the poets, the myth makers, the wizards, the jugglers, the story tellers, the crazed scientist, the mischievous physicist, you know who they are. In every epic of human history these people come along.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
From Mind To Supermind (1985)
From Mind to Supermind by Dr. Timothy Leary (1985)
“More changes have taken place in the last twenty five years, unquestionably, than in any period of human history. Just as I said an hour on the Greenwich map is a century, a decade these days seems to be a century. Can you remember the ancient history of the 1960s?”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
American Culture (1945-1985)
Timothy Leary - American Culture or Some Thoughts On Change (1945-1985)
“As you well-know, I never wanted any credibility. I’m more concerned with incredibility.”
“Now they say that there was a counter-culture [in the Sixties]. There was no counter culture. This was a left-wing, partisan statement. There were 100 counter-cultures. There were as many counter-cultures as there were groups of friends and lovers meeting together to look into each others’ eyes and smile. That’s the point of the Sixties, there was not one orthodoxy being replaced by another orthodoxy. … You make your own world. Don’t blame your parents and don’t blame society. Figure it out for yourself.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
Leary & Ram Dass: Harvard Reunion (1983)
1983 Harvard Reunion
Dr. Timothy Leary & Richard Alpert
Dr. Timothy Leary & Richard Alpert
"I don’t for one moment wish that I was not thrown out of Harvard . . . anymore."
- Ram Dass
"[So Emerson] came to Harvard Divinity School, gave that famous speech in which he said, ‘Don’t look for god in the temples, nor in the buildings, nor in the pulpits, look within, find divinity inside yourself, drop out, become self-reliant (translated as do your own thing) and for, I believe thirty-three years, he was not allowed back on this sacred territory. We’re back after twenty!"
- Tim Leary
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
What Are Humans For? (1983)
Timothy Leary Interviewed on What Are Humans For? (1983)
“The people who were teaching us about consciousness-expanding drugs were people like Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, even Henry Luce, the respectable conservative founder of ‘Time’ magazine. There was a large group of thoughtful people who told us that the doors of perception were going to open and an avalanche of change would happen.”
“What are humans for? We’re not here to fight Communism. We’re not here to fight for a job. If we don’t do that any more, what are we for? Well the answer to that is, the function of the human being is to evolve, to grow, to become more intelligent, to become a more advanced form of our species.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
Evolution Of Intelligence (1983)
Timothy Leary - Evolution of Intelligence: Boulder, Colorado 1983
“I think it’s time to dust off the word pagan again. The word pagan seems to mean one who loves life. A pagan is someone who loves humanity and would never dream of oppressing humanity with Original Sins and other life sentences, which distract from self-esteem and courage and self-confidence.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
The Intelligent Use Of Psychedelic Drugs (1982)
Audio (1hr 01min)
“We represent the aristocratic, exploring elite of our species, and we always have.”
“The problem with drugs is that stupid people use drugs stupidly.”
“Nobody died for my sins, man. I did my time for ‘em.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
The Technology Of Freedom (1981)
Timothy Leary on The Technology of Freedom 1981
“I’m basically pro-drugs. Drugs give you more options. Now I’m not pro any one drug. I’m pro-freedom-of-drugs.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
The Future Of Higher Intelligence (1981)
This recording was made at a conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1981. Panelists include: Dr. Timothy Leary, Frank Baron, Dr. Andrew Weil, Robert Anton Wilson, Walter Houston Clark, Paul Krasner & Dr. John C. Lilly.
“The introduction of a new technology, a new paradigm, a new world model to a primitive society takes a lot of delicate doing. You can’t spook them too quickly. … You have to attach the new model to some of the old theories.” - Tim
“Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.” - Bob
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
The Creation Of The Future (1980)
“So the concept that developed at Harvard, then at Millbrook, and later it seemed to have moved out to other places, was the concept of serial imprinting. That for thousands of years the smartest women and men have known that through manipulating your nervous system by getting high in any way that you can you can suspend the old imprints and have a chance to start a new reality.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podacst
Timothy Leary Live In San Francisco (1979)
“Evolution has always involved people like us getting together as we are tonight, figuring out where we came from, and who’s slowing us down, and what’s the factual evidence as to how fast and where we can move?”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
Timothy Leary vs. Notre Dame (1968)
“Of course, what the politicians debate about is really irrelevant because they’re in basic agreement. They believe in the system. They just want the power to run it. So they give us the illusion about fighting fiercely about words and tactics and promises, but we know, don’t we, that there’s no choice there.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
Timothy Leary At MIT (1967)
“You, the younger generation in particular, have got to drop out, and by drop out I mean all the way. You can’t vote, I urge you not to do politics, don’t picket, don’t get involved in any of these menopausal mind games because it doesn’t make any difference.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
Radio Interview - The League For Spiritual Discovery (1966)
1966 Interview of Dr. Timothy Leary on The League for Spiritual Discovery
“We’re convinced, and I think it wouldn’t be hard to prove my point, that most Americans are involved in a meaningless, robot, assembly-line series of activities. They don’t really know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it, but they’re just pushed off to this assembly-line and off they go.”
Edited from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast
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