Leary, Timothy
1920-1996 76 years
1920-1996 76 years
| When you take a pill and instant heaven comes to you, what does it mean? It only means that the chemical drug lowers all your defense measures, breaks down your logic, your rational thinking. You are in a waking dream. The logic has stopped – not as an achievement, but just as a chemical enforcement. You are in a waking dream; with LSD you are in a waking dream. Timothy Leary has written a book comparing Tibetan mystics with LSD-takers, and he says the experience is the same. He says about Marpa and Milarepa, or you could say Kabir and Ekhardt, Huang Po or Hui- Hai, or Bayazid and Rabiya, that whatsoever they have known or have come to know is just similar to LSD experiences. Timothy Leary is right in a way, but still fundamentally wrong. He is right in a way because the experiences are similar, but not the same... --Osho The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol. 1, ch. 13 |
American counter-culture guru of the late '60s hippie
era
author, lecturer, media personality....
born Mass., USA
father: dentist, left family when Leary was 13,
only child
WWII service--medical corp
college, PhD at UC-Berkeley--philosophy/psychology.
became well known for use of drugs--LSD, mescaline,
etc. in experimentation--coined the phrase "Turn on,
Tune in ,and Drop out"....
many run-ins with US government authorities, arrests.
married 5x, children.
died of prostate cancer in Calif., cremated, part of
ashes sent into outer space orbit.
era
author, lecturer, media personality....
born Mass., USA
father: dentist, left family when Leary was 13,
only child
WWII service--medical corp
college, PhD at UC-Berkeley--philosophy/psychology.
became well known for use of drugs--LSD, mescaline,
etc. in experimentation--coined the phrase "Turn on,
Tune in ,and Drop out"....
many run-ins with US government authorities, arrests.
married 5x, children.
died of prostate cancer in Calif., cremated, part of
ashes sent into outer space orbit.
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