Quotes from leary timothy ii

Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

We translated the basic Hindu teaching that everything is illusion into the modern neurological truth that everything is a figment of your own brain.

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key -- it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.

In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed."

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems able to escape from the doomed planet and contact manifestations of the same amino-acid seeding that have evolved in other solar systems. The mission is the message--to escape and come home.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back [to life] during a Republican administration.