OneMoreRobot3021 said:

I love the Tibetan Book of the Dead that him and Alpert wrote. I read it the day before any major trip, and that's as much thought as I give Leary.

Then I have fun.

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and its a fucking evil book about how to reincarnate back into this fucked up world.

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Noviseer said:

just for the record... Thompson > EVERYONE

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HELLA_TIGHT said:

thompson > leary

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Letto said:

"My own acid-eating experience is limited in terms of total consumption [in 1966], but widely varied as to company and circumstances... and if I had a choice of repeating any one of the half dozen bouts I recall, I would choose one of those Hell's Angels parties in La Honda, complete with all the mad lighting, cops on the road, a Ron Boise sculpture looming out in the woods, and all the big speakers vibrating with Bob Dylan's 'Mr. Tambourine Man.' It was a very electric atmosphere. If the Angels lent a feeling of menace, they also made it more interesting... and far more alive than anything likely to come out of a controlled experiment or a politely brittle gathering of well-educated truth-seekers looking for wisdom in a capsule. Dropping acid with the Angels was an adventure; they were too ignorant to know what to expect, and too wild to care. They just swallowed the stuff and hung on... which is probably just as dangerous as the experts say, but a far, far nuttier trip than sitting in some sterile chamber white a condescending guide and a handful of nervous, would-be hipsters."

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Despite all of Leary's ramblings and pseudoscientific theories, Thompson was far more enlightened in his own self-destructive search for action and embracing of the reality of the world. If a figure like Thompson had led the 1960s psychedelic movement, many people would be much less bitter about the bullshit they were fed, and we may have been far more successful (though it was still successful to a certain extent under self-proclaimed gurus like Leary).

wharfrat12 said:

HELLA_TIGHT said:

thompson > leary

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