Timothy Leary
Audiobook Lectures | MP3 | 32Kbps | 6 files, 5-27MB each | Genre: English Spoken Word, Psychedelic
Audiobook Lectures | MP3 | 32Kbps | 6 files, 5-27MB each | Genre: English Spoken Word, Psychedelic
Timothy Leary will be remembered by all of us of a certain age for his pioneering psychedelic drug research and use, and as one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out." Sadly, few have followed in his wake, as official research on the effects of psychedelic experience is more or less at a standstill. Here are some of his words, which I hope may encourage more people to themselves become psychonaughts. The first is from an LP (remember those?) which begins 'anyone over 40 must not listen to this record...' - and as I'm almost there, time I think to pass this on to younger folk.... There's also a couple of further talks - 'Any Reality is an Opinion' and 'How to operate your Brain'. Though a little dated, I hope these recordings will be of interest to some.
I would recommend Terence McKenna (see my upcoming posts, assuming my computer holds out) for practical and a more up to date philosophy on psychedelic exploration. Remember we're not talking about threshold doses at a rave with friends here (though that's a lot of fun too!) but instead the careful self-administering of meaninful amounts of psychedelic substances, often alone, or with a 'sitter' in the next room (whose ONLY task is to just reassure you that things are cool if you get freaked). I'll try and get Terence's stuff up on Avaxhome in the next few weeks, meanwhile enjoy this flavor of the '60's, what we did with our brains before the internet!
Take care everyone.
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