Frasi di Timothy Leary (62 frasi, pagina 2)

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“Il mio avvertimento di oggi per la gente è il seguente: Se prendi il gioco della vita seriamente, se prendi il tuo sistema nervoso seriamente, se prendi i tuoi organi di senso seriamente, se prendi il processo dell'energia seriamente, devi accenderti, sintonizzarti e rifiutare le convenzioni.”

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“I Beatles sono dei messia. Sono gli avatar (le incarnazioni divine, gli agenti di Dio) più saggi e potenti che il genere umano abbia mai prodotto […]. Prototipi di una nuova razza di uomini liberi e gioiosi. Agenti dell'evoluzione inviati da Dio, dotati di misteriosi poteri e in grado di dar vita a una nuova specie di esseri umani.”

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da Thank God For The Beatles, 1968
Origine: Citato in Chris Ingham, Guida completa ai Beatles, Antonio Vallardi Editore, 2005, p. 241. ISBN 8882119866

“Pensa autonomamente, Metti in discussione le autorità.”

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“[Ultime parole] Perché no? Perché no? Perché no? Yeah!”

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“La civiltà è insopportabile, ma è meno insopportabile al vertice.”

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“Nell'era dell'informazione, non si insegna filosofia allo stesso modo in cui si faceva dopo il feudalesimo. La si recita. Se Aristotele fosse vivo oggi, avrebbe un talk show.”

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“Abbiamo a che fare con la generazione meglio educata della storia. Ma hanno un cervello ben vestito che non sa dove andare.”

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“Sei giovane solo tanto quanto l'ultima volta che hai cambiato idee.”

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Timothy Leary: Frasi in inglese

“But they all do sort of the same thing, and that is rearrange what you thought was real, and they remind you of the beauty of pretty simple things. You forget, because you're so busy going from A to Z, that there's 24 letters in between…
You turn on… tune in… and you drop out…”

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Grace Slick, and Leary are both quoted in the Infected Mushroom song "Drop out" on the EP Deeply Disturbed (2003), but only the final portion actually quotes Leary.
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“Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.”

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Commenting on surrealist H. R. Giger. [Martin, Douglas, H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist, Dies at 74; His Vision Gave Life to ‘Alien’ Creature, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/arts/h-r-giger-swiss-artist-dies-at-74-his-vision-gave-life-to-alien-creature.html, 14 May 2014, New York Times, 14 May 2014]

“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.”

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How to Operate Your Brain (1994) http://yoism.org/?q=node/47, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music.

“Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission."”

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The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.
The Intelligence Agents (1996)

“Anything that affects your senses … is your business. If you want to kill yourself through nicotine or cyanide, it's your business.”

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Harvard Law School Forum (1966)

“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.”

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As quoted in Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia : How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings (2005), by Rob Brezsny, p. 8

“The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.”

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Harvard Law School Forum (1966)

“That’s the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA.”

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Discussing CNN’s Crossfire as quoted in Rolling Stone (14 December 1989)

“There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body.
Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.”

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Harvard Law School Forum (1966)

“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.”

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"The Seven Tongues of God"
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)

“I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.”

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At the Neo-Pagan Starwood Festival (July 1991), recorded on Timothy Leary Live at Starwood (2001) http://www.freetimes.com/story/3493 by the Association for Consciousness Exploration ISBN 1-59157-002-6

“What I feel or believe or experience is my business, and what I do is all our businesses; and reward or punish me according to whether I play the game well — ethically and rightly — or unethically.”

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Harvard Law School Forum (1966)

“Art's certainly made a lot of money, and got on a lot of shows — he got himself into the Nixon White House riding on the death of his daughter. And I think that's ghoulish! That's ghoulish.”

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In a Stanley Siegel interview (c. 1977) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrdNRvJ7-8, with phone commentary by Art Linkletter who blamed his daughter's death on her involvement with LSD.

“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.”

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As quoted in The Best Advice Ever for Teachers (2001) by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, p. 57

“Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.
The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search — for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning.
Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props.”

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Drop Out, Turn On. Tune In.
Start your own Religion (1967)

“Turn on" meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. "Tune in" meant interact harmoniously with the world around you — externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. "Drop Out" meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.”

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Timothy Leary libro Flashbacks

Flashbacks (1983)

“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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Chaos and Cyber Culture (1994)

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

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Section title in "The Seven Tongues of God"
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)

“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.”

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As quoted in Still Casting Shadows : A Shared Mosaic of U.S. History (2006) by B. Clay Shannon, p. 376

“I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.”

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On being brought back to life, during the period in which he considered putting his body into cryonic suspension, as quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 130

“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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"Neurological Politics"'
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)

“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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On the Castalia Institute in Millbrook, New York; quoted in Storming Heaven : LSD and the American Dream (1998) by Jay Stevens, p. 208

“The Tibetan Book of the Dead is ostensibly a book describing the experiences to be expected at the moment of death, during an intermediate phase lasting forty-nine (seven times seven) days, and during rebirth into another bodily frame. This however is merely the exoteric framework which the Tibetan Buddhists used to cloak their mystical teachings. … The esoteric meaning, as it has been interpreted in this manual, is that it is death and rebirth of the ego that is described, not of the body. Lama Govinda indicates this clearly in his introduction when he writes: "It is a book for the living as well as the dying." The book's esoteric meaning is often concealed beneath many layers of symbolism. It was not intended for general reading. It was designed to be understood only by one who was to be initiated personally by a guru into the Buddhist mystical doctrines, into the pre-mortem-death-rebirth experience. These doctrines have been kept a closely guarded secret for many centuries, for fear that naive or careless application would do harm.”

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The Psychedelic Experience (1964), p. 12

“The mark of a basic shit is that he can’t mind his own business.”

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Though at times attributed to Leary on the internet, no published source of this has been located. It is a misquote of a William S. Burroughs reading entitled M.O.B. from the Giorno Poetry Systems boxed set. M.O.B. was an extension of Burroughs' expression in The Place of Dead Roads (1983), p. 155:
You are a Shit Spotter. It's satisfying work. … We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus … The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right.
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