We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space… - Timothy Leary

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We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art.

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About Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary (22 October 1920 – 31 May 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, campaigner for psychedelic drug research and use, 1960s counterculture icon and computer software designer. He is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. During the 1960s, he coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."

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Native Name: Timothy Francis
Alternative Names: Timothy Francis Leary Dr. Timothy Leary
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"Holger Hyden discovers that the brain cells of educated rats contain a third more RNA the those of uneducated rats.
University of California psychologists pass on learning from one rat to another by injecting RNA from trained rats.
Neurologists are "wiring up" the brains of animals and men and altering consciousness by pressing buttons. Press a button - make him hungry. Press a button - make him horny. Press a button - make him angry. Press a button - make him happy.
The psychedelic chemicals flood out of the laboratories. Into the hands of the two familiar groups; those who want to do something to others for
power and control; those who want to do something to themselves for fun and love."

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There are two things which have caused misunderstanding. One is that the teachings seem to be addressed to the dead or the dying; the other that the title contains the expression “Liberation through Hearing” (in Tibetan, Thos-grol).

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