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• 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.

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  Beauty, Rest Of Your Life, Wonder

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.83, Ronin Publishing

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• We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

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  Education, Humorous, Learning

  "Rolling Stone" Twentieth Anniversary Issue, 1987.

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

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  Falling In Love, Never Fall In Love, Psychiatrist

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.81, Ronin Publishing

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• Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

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  Dropping Out, Lsd, Abandon

  Timothy Leary (1990). “Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era : an Autobiography”, Tarcher

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• In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.

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  Communication, Creativity, Successful

  Timothy Leary (2010). “The Politics of Self-Determination”, p.74, Ronin Publishing

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• Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.

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  Drama, Mind, Vision

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”, p.7, Ronin Publishing

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• There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

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  Inspiring, Memories, Long

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• 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.

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  Home, Dna, Able

  Timothy Leary (2003). “Musings on Human Metamorphoses”, p.15, Ronin Publishing

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• Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

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  Prayer, Communication, Computer

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.70, Ronin Publishing

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• Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.

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  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.

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  Soul, Dialect, World

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• Grow within the flow.

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  Growth, Flow, Grows

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• And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.

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  Philosophy, Reality, Information

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• Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.

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  War, Hippie, Self Confidence

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• Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.

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  Tunes, Boots, Psychedelic

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• The universe is an intelligence test.

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  Tests, Universe

  "Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati" by Robert Anton Wilson, (p. 170), 1997.

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• The word "religion" beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates "to bind" from the Latin--"re" means back and "ligare" means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.

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  Latin, Mean, Ties

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.91, Ronin Publishing

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• Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.

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  Thinking, Cannabis, Authority

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• 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.

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  Past, People, Interesting

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.84, Ronin Publishing

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• People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

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  Teaching, School, Sunday

  "LSD: Methods of Control". 1966.

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• What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

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  Wish, Patterns, Psychedelic

  Timothy Leary (2004). “Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality: A Functional Theory and Methodology for Personality Evaluation”, p.118, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code--thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come.

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  Technology, Dna, World

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• In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

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  Philosophy, Decision, 50th Birthday

  "The Best Advice Ever for Teachers" by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, (p. 57), 2001.

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• Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

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  Time, Soul, Gardening

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• I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

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  Mutants, Great Beatles, Psychedelic Experience

  "Shout!" by Philip Norman, (p. 365), 1981.

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