TIMOTHY LEARY INTERVIEW

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The energies that you run into when you take lsd. The visions that you get are not supernatural and they're not pathological. These are ancient biological messages which are stored in the nervous system and in the cells of your body. When you take lsd, you go out of your mind. You go beyond words, you go beyond symbols, you go beyond the 20th century, because 99 of your brain doesn't know that you or the 20th century exists. Show more

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Namaste. I salute the god within you. Drugs, with the taboo in the in the 60s and 70s, dying is now to do. No one wants to think about it. It's exciting. It's the most important decision you make in your life: how and when and how, with whom and why you die. Show more

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You have to arrange your dying design for dying dignified dying. Design it and get your friends involved. And the taboo come on. Do you believe that there is inevitable evolution of the of the soul? Oh yeah, i use the word soul to describe the brain. I don't think the dna has given us this brain with the 120 billion neurons in each neuron. We're not using them. We all know that and i think that yes, and the. The future of the human species is to learn how to use our brain. Do you think there's a potential? By the way, that's nothing new, i'm just saying it was said to depends. The purpose of human life is to learn how to die in consciousness and change. Show more

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I'm saying the same thing and the more technical language of the 20th century. And when you get to be about 50, i'm not advocating dying, but i think you should start planning and thinking. It becomes a very thrilling frontier and it's the most important thing you do in your life: to die. Tim, just like you, communicated to people who were, like me, an atheist in 1963 and i became, in quotes, a spiritual person. The first lsd trip, i saw such sights and i felt such feelings that i was no longer an atheist and since then, no, i were an atheist, no, no. Do you think you believe in a higher power? Hyes, i do. What's her name? It's a mystery. Yeah, the mystery is also the duty of your life. If you want to really live is to find out and make your own version. You know, make it happen. His end was very noble, actually. Show more

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He really. I was in touch with him very much toward the end and i think the last person he spoke to that he recognized on the phone was william burroughs. He said bill, i love you, and borough said i'd love you too. Show more

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