Timothy Leary cytaty

Timothy Leary – amerykański filozof, pisarz, psycholog, profesor Harvardu. Stanowił ikonę amerykańskiej kontrkultury lat 60.

Uznawany jest za jednego z inicjatorów powstania ruchu hippisowskiego. Powszechnie uważa się, że gdyby nie on, era hippisów nigdy by nie nadeszła[potrzebny przypis].

Autor popularnej wśród hippisów sentencji Turn on, tune in, drop out , która jednak w większym stopniu zachęcać miała m.in. do porzucenia konwenansów i schematów kojarzonych z życiem establishmentu i mieszczaństwa, niż nawoływać do stosowania narkotyków. Znany orędownik prowadzenia badań nad substancjami psychodelicznymi . Autor książki Polityka ekstazy – wizji świata, w której ludzie pojednani za sprawą LSD wiodą „bogate życie duchowe”.

Swoją filozofię wyłożył Leary w Info-psychology, którą napisał podczas pobytu w więzieniu. Posługując się charakterystycznym, pełnym inteligentnych neologizmów językiem, rozwiniętym z żargonu naukowego i filozoficznego, zapisał system, którym posługiwał się już stale. Bazę stanowi ośmioobwodowy model świadomości wyjaśniający funkcjonowanie ludzkiego mózgu wraz ze zjawiskami okultystycznymi, korzystający z fizyki kwantowej, zapisków mistyków z historii oraz doświadczeń inspirowanych przyjęciem dietyloamidu kwasu lizergowego.

Do sympatyków twórczości Leary’ego należeli m.in. pisarze i poeci związani z ruchem Beat Generation, tacy jak: Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs i Ken Kesey.

Brał udział w wielu kontrkulturowych projektach muzycznych, powstałych np. podczas koncertów grupy rockowej Grateful Dead, czy przy kręceniu klipu Give Peace a Chance Johna Lennona. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Październik 1920 – 31. Maj 1996
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To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?
To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

Timothy Leary: Cytaty po angielsku

“Think for yourself and question authority.”

Timothy Leary's track on Sound Bites from the Counter Culture (1989)

“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”

As quoted in Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People (2000) by Darrin Zeer, p. 52

“Turn on, Tune in, Drop out”

Źródło: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

“My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.”

A Trip with Paul Kassner <!-- Politics of Ecstasy 1999 p. 215 -->
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
Kontekst: My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

As quoted in Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1987) by Robert Byrne, #40

“They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”

Interview by David Sheff in Rolling Stone Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1987)
Kontekst: We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

“To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.”

Changing My Mind, Among Others : Lifetime Writings (1982), p. 76; also in Change Your Brain (2000), p. 72
Kontekst: To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old distinction between artists and scientists must vanish. Every time we teach a child correct usage of an external symbol, we must spend as much time teaching him how to fission and reassemble external grammar to communicate the internal. The training of artists and creative performers can be a straightforward, almost mechanical process. When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

“Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don't take it unless you have someone that's very experienced with you to guide you through it. And don't take it unless you are ready to have your perspective on yourself and your life radically changed”

CBC Documentary: How To Go Out of Your Mind: The LSD Crisis (1966)
Kontekst: We always have urged people: Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don't take it unless you have someone that's very experienced with you to guide you through it. And don't take it unless you are ready to have your perspective on yourself and your life radically changed, because you're gonna be a different person, and you should be ready to face this possibility.

“When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.”

Changing My Mind, Among Others : Lifetime Writings (1982), p. 76; also in Change Your Brain (2000), p. 72
Kontekst: To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. The old distinction between artists and scientists must vanish. Every time we teach a child correct usage of an external symbol, we must spend as much time teaching him how to fission and reassemble external grammar to communicate the internal. The training of artists and creative performers can be a straightforward, almost mechanical process. When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

“While sitting in my prison cell, I was astonished to hear the local rock station play a new song by the Beatles entitled "Come Together." Although the new version was certainly a musical and lyrical improvement on my campaign song, I was a bit miffed that Lennon had passed me over this way.”

Timothy Leary książka Flashbacks

Źródło: Flashbacks, An Autobiography (1983), p. 388
Kontekst: While sitting in my prison cell, I was astonished to hear the local rock station play a new song by the Beatles entitled "Come Together." Although the new version was certainly a musical and lyrical improvement on my campaign song, I was a bit miffed that Lennon had passed me over this way. (I must explain that even the most good-natured persons tend to be a bit touchy about social neglect while in prison). When I sent a mild protest to John, he replied with typical Lennon charm and wit: that he was a tailor and I was a customer who had ordered a suit and never returned. So he sold it to someone else.

“He's basically a romantic comedian.”

Commenting on G. Gordon Liddy‎‎'s 1994 remarks on shooting intruding ATF agents, and a 1966 raid by Liddy in which Leary had been arrested, in "Timothy Leary Revisited" a 1995 interview, in Paul Krassner's Impolite Interviews (1999) by Paul Krassner, p. 304
Kontekst: He's basically a romantic comedian. …. He was a government agent entering our bedroom at midnight. We had every right to shoot him. But I've never owned a weapon in my life, and I have no intention of owning a weapon, although I was a master sharpshooter at West Point on both the Garand, the Springfield rifle and the machine-gun. I was a howitzer expert. I know how to operate these lethal gadgets but I have never had and never will have a gun around.

“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.”

The Psychedelic Experience (1995)
Kontekst: A psychedelic experience is a journey to new realms of consciousness. The scope and content of the experience is limitless, but its characteristic features are the transcendence of verbal concepts, of space-time dimensions, and of the ego or identity. Such experiences of enlarged consciousness can occur in a variety of ways: sensory deprivation, yoga exercises, disciplined meditation, religious or aesthetic ecstasies, or spontaneously. Most recently they have become available to anyone through the ingestion of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT, etc. 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.

“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history.”

Interview by David Sheff in Rolling Stone Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1987)
Kontekst: We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

“Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim.”

Timothy Leary's Last Trip (1997)
Kontekst: Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

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

Attributed to Leary by Terence McKenna in one of his talks ( "The World and Its Double" https://terencemckenna.wikispaces.com/The+World+And+Its+Double, 11 September 1993, Nature Friends Lodge, Sierra Madre, CA), though he also stated[citation needed] Leary denied ever having said it.
Misattributed

“I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.”

As quoted in Shout! (1981) by Philip Norman, p. 365; and in An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 303

“The universe is an intelligence test”

As quoted in Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) by Robert Anton Wilson, p. 170

“Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.”

Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club (2010), p. 202

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