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• You are a God Act like one!

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  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.75, 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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• Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.

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  Sports, Team, Thinking

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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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• We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.

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  Clouds, Small Numbers, Together

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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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• I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

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  Myth, Wanted

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.10, Ronin Publishing

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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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• 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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• Grow within the flow.

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  Growth, Flow, Grows

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• Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.

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  Numbers, Space, People

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

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  Time, Soul, Gardening

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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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• In a carefully prepared, loving LSD session, a woman will inevitably have several hundred orgasms.

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  Lsd, Hundred, Prepared

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• The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.

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  Stars, Pride, Personality

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Evolutionary Agents”, p.41, Ronin Publishing

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• I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.

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  Intelligent, Drug, Use

  "Chaos & cyber culture". Book by Timothy Leary, 1994.

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• By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

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  Mean, Games, Dropping Out

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

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• Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

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  Garden, Eden, Sin

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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