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Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and philosopher who advocated for the use of psychedelic drugs in psychological research and therapy. He was a leading figure in the 1960s counterculture movement and is known for his slogan 'Turn on, tune in, drop out'.

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“You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.”

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“Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.”

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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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“LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it.”

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“The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.”

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“Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.”

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Book:The Politics of Ecstasy

Source: The Politics of Ecstasy

“LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.”

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“The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly”

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Book:Neuropolitique

Source: Neuropolitique

“Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.”

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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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“There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.”

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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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Book:The Politics of Ecstasy

Source: The Politics of Ecstasy

“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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“Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.”

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Book:The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Source: The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

“If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides telescopes are unnatural.”

Source: The Politics of Ecstasy

About the Author

Born: October 22, 1920
Died: May 31, 1996
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 149

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