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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
YOUR BRAIN IS GOD offers the inside story on how the
Harvard-Millbrook psychedelic research project moved from the
scientific to the religious arena. After professors Timothy Leary
and Richard Alpert were expelled from Harvard, they came to
understand that the US Constitution protected religious practice,
but not scientific exploration. The only way in which
consciousness-change experiences could be discussed was in terms of
the philosophic-religious. The adventure that ensued is described
here in Leary's own words.
Writings that sparkle with the psychedelic revolution. The Politics
of Ecstasy is Timothy Leary's most provocative and influential
exploration of human consciousness, written during the period from
his Harvard days to the Summer of Love. Includes his early
pronouncements on the psychedelic movement and his views on social
and political ramifications of psychedelic and mystical experience.
Here is the outspoken Playboy interview revealing the sexual power
of LSD-a statement that many believe played a key role in provoking
Leary's incarceration by the authorities; an early outline of the
neurological theory that became Leary's classic eight-circuit model
of the human nervous system; an insightful exploration of the life
and work of novelist Hermann Hesse; an effervescent dialogue with
humorist Paul Krassner; and an impassioned defense of what Leary
called "The Fifth Freedom"-the right to get high.
This timely book, Timothy Leary's "cyberpunk manifesto," is his
future-vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis
on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual
creativity, and empowerment via computers and brain technologies.
"Cyberpunks" brings together some of Leary's most provocative
writings, along with selections from interviews and conversations
with a variety of writers and thinkers. Individual chapters include
"How I Became an Amphibian," "Personal Computers; Personal
Freedom," and "Navigational Game Plane." "How to Boot Up Your
Bio-Computer" typifies Leary's outrageous yet surprisingly grounded
ideas, linking pagan, nature-based rituals with a "collective
boot-up" of the brain through stimulation from certain natural
plants. Together, these pieces describe a new breed of human being
who embraces technology, uses it to revolutionize communication and
evade and annoy Big Brother, while at the same time achieving
personal success, attaining political power, and above all, having
fun.
This book tells the inside story of Leary's early LSD research at
Harvard. Known throughout the world as the guru who encouraged an
entire generation to "turn on, tune in, and drop out", he draws on
wit, humor, and skepticism to debunk the power of psychotherapy and
to advocate reprogramming the brain with psychedelics. Discussing
how various drugs affect the brain, how to change behavior, and how
to develop creativity, he also delves into psychopharmacological
catalyzing, fear of potential, symbol and language imprinting, and
brain reimprinting with Hinduism, Buddhism, and LSD.
Busted for pot in 1965, Timothy Leary was sentenced to 25 years in
prison. He escaped, and thus began an almost farcical odyssey: the
former West Point student and Harvard professor was now an
acid-tripping fugitive. In this delightfully irreverent account,
Leary describes his time in Algeria; how he was sheltered by an
arms dealer in Switzerland; his exploits with the Weathermen and
Eldridge Cleaver, who tried to hold him hostage; and his eventual
capture and return to the United States. The book includes black
and white illustrations throughout.
In these collected essays, Timothy Leary explains his belief that
humans are morphing into space beings. He describes eight circuits
of human metamorphosis, analyzing in depth the consciousness and
its purpose manifested by each change. Fifteen chapters cover a
range of topics from Spinning Up the Genetic Highway to
Neurogeography of Terrestrial Politics to Twelve Stages of
Post-Cultural Evolution. In each of these insightful pieces the
author describes the complicated psychological metamorphosis that
precedes the launch of humans into space beings. This collection of
Learys early work at his imaginative and provocative best had an
enormous impact on psychology and the humanist movement.
Leary likens human society to that of insect hives and shows how
certain evolved evolutionary agents (mutants) are upsetting hive
and causing it to evolve. Eventually we will become the aliens. The
book describes the struggle between the forces moving into the
future and those attempting to stop change. While most people
associate Leary solely with LSD and debauchery, this fascinating
discourse has little mention of drugs.
Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever
closer to it. Timothy Leary brings some startlingly fresh ideas to
this topic. Fundamentally, he claims, we have been brainwashed by
our institutions -- government, organized religion, the healthcare
industry -- to accept death as an inevitable end. Leary argues
instead that death is misunderstood, that we don't "have" to die,
and that there are "commonsense alternatives." His theory rests on
the transhumanist approach that says human beings are evolving into
spiritual machines -- beings that are part human and part machine
and eventually will not die as the term is commonly understood.
Being fitted with machine parts like bionic knees is part of this
process. And as we evolve through the cybernetic age, he says, we
will gain new wisdom that broadens our definition of personal
immortality and gene-pool survival -- the "postbiologic option of
the information species."
Throughout the ages, intelligent, affluent, ambitious, and just
plain hot-to-trot humans have sought out aphrodisiacs -- everything
from rhino horns to green M&Ms. Here, Timothy Leary argues that
the true aphrodisiac is the mind. By knowing how to stimulate the
most sensitive organ of all, the brain, readers can enrich their
sex lives beyond their wildest dreams. Leary begins by telling his
own coming-of-sexual-age story in typically witty fashion, then
goes on to explore humanity's obsession with physical pleasure,
digital activation of the erotic brain, and the fascination with
cybersex. He explains how phones and computers allow perfect
strangers to achieve amazing levels of intimacy and why
telecommunicated sexual messages are now a standard courting
technique for young people in industrial-urban societies.
Ruminating on everything from sexual liberation to electronic
foreplay, Leary offers a persuasive explanation of why the key to
arousal is "all in your head."
America's most dangerous man -- according to Richard Nixon -- and
the Pied Piper of Youth is BACK
This book is about designing Chaos and fashioning your personal
disorder: On screens with cyber tools from counterculture
perspectives with informational chemicals (Chaos drugs) while
delighting in cybernetics as guerrilla artists who explore
de-animation alternatives while surfing the waves of millennium
madness to glimpse the glorious wild impossibilities and
improbabilities of the century to come. Enjoy it It's ours to be
played with
"Chaos & CyberCulture" conveys Timothy Leary's vision of the
emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning
authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and the
empowerment of computers and other technologies. Leary's last great
work, this book includes over 100,000 words in 40 chapters and 80
illustrations, as well as conversations with William Gibson, Winona
Ryder, William S. Burroughs, and David Byrne.
Timothy Leary, the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru
of the '60s counterculture, has reemerged as an icon of the new
edge cyberpunks.
In this brief, lively book of reminiscences, the man Allen Ginsberg
called "a hero of American consciousness" describes his
transformation from bohemian professor to avatar of the new age. In
his typically wry, provocative style, Timothy Leary gives firsthand
accounts of his interrogation before Congress, Robert F. Kennedy's
LSD use, his own flamboyant campaign for governor of California,
and much more.
Back in print after 20 years, this text from the earliest days of
psychedelia chronicles the experiences on 16 acid trips taken
before LSD was illegal. The trip guides or "high priests" included
Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Ralph Meltzner, Huston Smith and a junkie
from New York City named Willy. It tells of the goings-on and
freaking out at the Millbrook mansion in New York State that became
the Mecca of psychedelia during the 1960s, and of the many
luminaries who made their pilgrimage there to trip with Leary and
his group. Chapters include an I Ching reading and a chronicle of
what happened during those "spacewalks" of the mind.
The Intelligence Agents is a collection of memos, articles, and
pictures written in "future history" reflecting life on planet
earth during Leary's lifespan. A work of social, moral, religious
and scientific satire, including articles by and about people who
are changing the meaning of freedom all over the world, this is the
fifth and final volume of Dr. Leary's 'Future History Series' with
lots of fun pictures and ideas for your brain! Dr. Timothy Leary,
in his own chaotic style, recapitulates evolution from the first
organism in which life began in the Eastern Oriental shorelines.
DNA, the breath of life is always chasing the Sun Westward towards
our neurological destiny. If you are familiar with Dr. Leary's 24
Stage/8 Neuro-Circuit theory, then you will get a rise from this
book. We have migrated from Asia to California as the launching pad
into space where we will create H.O.M.E.s (High Oribtal
Mini-Earths). The Intelligence Agents have already established
their homes in future hive colonies. The secret to becoming an
Intelligence Agent and Intelligence Increase is to SMILE (Space
Migration Intelligence Increase Life Extension -- the 'I' is
squared).
Written while Leary was visiting India in 1965 and finished the
following year, "Psychedelic Prayers" is an adaptation of Book 1 of
the "Tao Te Ching". With a new Introduction by Ralph Metzner,
Leary's Harvard colleague, this book of poetry and meditations is
being published in its first new edition in 25 years.
Illustrations/photos.
These 11 essays are the writings that galvanized the 60s youth
revolution, written when Leary was at the peak of his popularity,
influence and visionary intensity. The book opens with "Start Your
Own Religion", revealing the true meaning of his immortal slogan
"turn on, tune in, drop out", while "Neurological Politics" - the
last essay - is a more scientific elaboration of the same theme.
The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic
shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert,
is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all
subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book,
the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient sacred
manuscript, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, from a psychedelic
perspective. The Psychedelic Experience describes their discoveries
in broadening spiritual consciousness through a combination of
Tibetan mediation techniques and psychotropic substances.
A leading figure of photorealist painting, Franz Gertsch (born
1930, Switzerland) has created monumental portraits of charismatic
youths and meditative depictions of nature in vivid and pains-
taking detail for over fifty years. Polyfocal Allover surveys
Gertsch's paintings from 1970 to 1982 and woodcut prints from 1979
to 2019, reflecting a vision in which all that lies within the
frame is accorded equal value. The essays, interviews, and
conversations in this publication bring further definition to the
lives and landscapes Gertsch renders with such virtuosic, eerie
precision.
Visionary Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary became the charismatic
leader of the '60s counterculture. Remembered as a pioneer of
research and experimentation with psychedelic substances, he was
also an author, lecturer, political dissident, and media magnet
whose wit and charm captured the world's attention. In this
collection of essays from Leary's early career, he presents his
concept of personal responsibility for the effects of one's
behavior. According to Leary, self-determining people don't blame
their parents, their race, or their society; they accept
responsibility for their actions, which in turn determines the
responses they get from the world. These writings had an enormous
impact on the humanistic psychology movement and libertarian
redefinition of the doctor-patient relationship. Ronin's new
offering gives readers a fascinating glimpse into Leary's
ground-breaking work in this area.
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