Timothy Leary Quotes
Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.
We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.
I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology.
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.
The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.
My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.
By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.
When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.
The brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.
After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.
Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.
You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.
Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.
When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.
That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.
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 capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.
I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.
Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.