skatealex2 said:

"An emotional person is a blind, crazed maniac. Emotions are addictive and narcotic and stupefacient.  Do not trust anyone who comes on emotional.  What are the emotions?  In a book titled Interpsonal Diagnosis of Personality, written when I was a psychologist, I presented classifications of emotions and detailed descriptions of their moderate and extreme manifestations. Emotions are all based on fear. Like an alcoholic or junkie, the frightened person reaches for his favorite escape into action.

Commanding, competing , punishing, agrressing , rebelling, complaining, abasing, submitting, placating, agreeing, fawning, flattering, giving.

The emotional person cannot think; he cannot perform any effective game action (except in acts of physical aggression and strength). The emotional person is turned off sensually. His body is a churning robot he has lost all connection with cellular wisdom or atomic revelation. The person in an emotional state is an inflexible robot gone berserk.

What psychologists call love is emotional greed and self-enhancing gluttony based on fear"


-The Politics of Ectasy

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Avid said:

yeah. he was kind of a goon. i'd still really would've liked to have talked to him about middle ways between psychologist wit psychedelics/crazy as a motherfucker. to have talked to him over coffee and over LSD (haha) would have been an awesome experience i think...

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BothHands said:

Without emotions there'd be no happiness.  Why would I want to rid myself of happiness.

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I think morality is also based in emotion.  Emotions like empathy or guilt.  And many others.

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Seeker_22 said:

I kinda dismissed him for awhile, because alot of people feel he is the reason lsd is as demonized as it is today. some people even think he worked for the government.

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^ This confirms my belief that most of you who claim to dislike Timothy Leary only feel that way because you heard other Shroomerites say it. 

AsAboveSoBelow said:

Leary is just saying: Be, Man.

Ridding yourself of all emotion, and just 'being'. Clearing your mind of worries and fears and everything he mentioned, so you can make the right decisions in life

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Learyfan said:

Seeker_22 said:

I kinda dismissed him for awhile, because alot of people feel he is the reason lsd is as demonized as it is today. some people even think he worked for the government.

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^ This confirms my belief that most of you who claim to dislike Timothy Leary only feel that way because you heard other Shroomerites say it. 

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Adamist said:

No one knows what kind of information he gave though.

I read that he only gave false information to throw them off.

Personally I think he believed in the movement too much to betray it..

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Of course he gave them bunk information.  Leary was brilliant.  He invented the behavior test that the prison gave to him when he went in.  It was called The Leary.  He knew exactly how to answer the questions and was put in the low risk section of the prison because of it, which allowed him to break out.  The idea that he was a government agent makes no sense.  Okay, so the government took a Harvard psychologist and made him lead the leader of the psychedelic movement?  They made him advocate people starting their own religions?  They made him advocate overthrowing the US government?  They made him advocate mind expanding chemicals?  They made him break out of prison?  They made him advocate drugs until he died?

And he's the Leary in Leary v. United States, which declared the Marijuana Tax Act unconstitutional! 

Timothy Leary had his flaws, but he is a hero to us all.

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"Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth".

The trickster deity breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (for example, Loki) but usually, albeit unintentionally, with ultimately positive effects. Often, the rule-breaking takes the form of tricks (e.g. Eris) or thievery. Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both; they are often funny even when considered sacred or performing important cultural tasks. An example of this is the sacred Heyoka, whose role is to play tricks and games and by doing so raises awareness and acts as an equalizer.

In many cultures, (as may be seen in Greek, Norse, or Slavic folktales, along with Native American/First Nations lore), the trickster and the culture hero are often combined. To illustrate: Prometheus, in Greek mythology, stole fire from the gods to give to humans. He is more of a culture hero than a trickster. In many Native American and First Nations mythologies, the coyote (Southwestern United States) or raven (Pacific Northwest, coastal British Columbia, Alaska and Russian Far East) stole fire from the gods (stars, moon, and/or sun) and are more tricksters than culture heroes.

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Learyfan said:

Adamist said:

No one knows what kind of information he gave though.

I read that he only gave false information to throw them off.

Personally I think he believed in the movement too much to betray it..

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Of course he gave them bunk information.  Leary was brilliant.  He invented the behavior test that the prison gave to him when he went in.  It was called The Leary.  He knew exactly how to answer the questions and was put in the low risk section of the prison because of it, which allowed him to break out.  The idea that he was a government agent makes no sense.  Okay, so the government took a Harvard psychologist and made him lead the leader of the psychedelic movement?  They made him advocate people starting their own religions?  They made him advocate overthrowing the US government?  They made him advocate mind expanding chemicals?  They made him break out of prison?  They made him advocate drugs until he died?

And he's the Leary in Leary v. United States, which declared the Marijuana Tax Act unconstitutional! 

Timothy Leary had his flaws, but he is a hero to us all.

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claraclairvoyant said:

what are ya...some kinda..leary fan?

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claraclairvoyant said:

what are ya...some kinda..leary fan?

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