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

  Timothy Leary

  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 brain is the key, the brain is the source, the brain is God. Everything that humans do is neuroecology.

  Timothy Leary

  Keys, Brain, Psychedelic

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Change Your Brain”, p.3, Ronin Publishing

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• Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.

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  Hippie, Profound, Vision

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

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• At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

  Timothy Leary

  Years, Vision, Peers

  Timothy Leary (1994). “Das GeneRationen-Spiel & wie die HeimMedien die kulturelle Evolution designen”

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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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• When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

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  Men, Suits Of Armor, Bully

  Timothy Leary (2012). “High Priest”, p.127, 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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• 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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• Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever come back to thank me.

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  People, Certain, Young

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• The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

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  Important, Life Is, Dies

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• We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.

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  School, Letters, Forget

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• Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D.

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  Religious, Eye, Drug

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

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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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• Human beings have a right to change their consciousness, and it is unconscionable and absolutely wrong for any government or any person to stand in the way of someone choosing to change their consciousness.

  Timothy Leary

  Government, Way, Consciousness

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• Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.

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  Moon, Village Life, Space

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

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• 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. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

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  Jobs, School, Mean

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

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• The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

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  Reality, Brain, Robots

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Change Your Brain”, p.58, Ronin Publishing

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• I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Eight

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• 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.

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  Hippie, Games, People

  Quoted in East Village Other, 15 Apr. - 1 May 1966

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• I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.

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  Stupid, Thinking, Marijuana

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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. Science is all metaphor. 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. If you don't like what you are doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. 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.

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  Philosophy, Moving, Games

  Lecture, June 1966, in Politics of Ecstasy (1968) ch. 21

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• At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different stages. The things that change your brain are called 'drugs'.

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  Eight, Drug, Brain

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• Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.

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  Tunes, Robots, Routine

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

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• My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form.

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  Reading, Rome, Turkeys

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• We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

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  Past, Reality, Brain

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Change Your Brain”, p.40, Ronin Publishing

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