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.
February 21, 2011
February 20, 2011
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.
- - Timothy Leary in an interview in the Twentieth Anniversary Issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, 1987.
February 19, 2011
The universe is an intelligence test.
- - Cosmic Trigger : Final Secret of the Illuminati by Timothy Leary, 1993.
February 18, 2011
And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.
- - Chaos & Cyber Culture by Timothy Leary, 1994.
February 17, 2011
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
- - Chaos & Cyber Culture by Timothy Leary, 1994.
February 14, 2011
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
- - Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, 1972.
February 13, 2011
Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.
February 12, 2011
Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.
- - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Wilson Watts, 1966.
February 11, 2011
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it.
February 10, 2011
You must always keep in mind that a path is only a path. Each path is only one of a million paths. If you feel that you must now follow it, you need not stay with it under any circumstances. Any path is only a path. There is no affront to yourself or others in dropping a path if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on a path or to leave it must be free of fear and ambition. I caution you: look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you…
