“Whoever controls the Media, controls your mind”
Jim Morrison, The Doors
Leary: Electrons are the Vehicle to Your Brain
“The eyes are made up of hundreds of layers of neurons, rods, cones. Your eyeballs deal with one energy: It’s light. Through your eyes come illumination, vision, perception, enlightenment, illumination. Your eyes are the windows of your soul. Who controls your eyeballs programs your brain.”
What is real, or imaginary?
How do we separate fact from fiction?
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Leary: There’s a Lot to be Done
“To think for yourself, you must learn how to reprogram, reform, inform your own brain. To do this, to take responsibility for your brain, it is necessary to question everything that you have been taught, to question authority, to learn to take the brave step of taking responsibility for operating your brain.”
“Think for Yourself. Question Authority.”
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Leary: Move Your Consciousness
“..many times we are afraid because we want order. We can’t deal with the confusion and disorder. We want form. We want rules. Yes, throughout human history there have been people — religious leaders, political leaders — who will give you order. They will give you rules and commandments.”
“The religious leaders, the political leaders want to give you orders to run your life, to determine how you think. The basic goal is to operate your own mind.”
Are religious, and political leaders providing you “order” at the expense of your freedom?
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Leary: Know Thyself
“The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority.”
“Question authority”
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Leary: Philosophy is a Team Sport
“Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind...”
“The basic goal is to operate your own mind.”
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Leary: Interaction and Feel
“The brain is a photovore. Your brain, my brain, our brains live on light. Just as the body needs air and carbohydrates, our brains are starved for light, for illumination, for revelation.”
Are your choices made by someone else? Are you influenced by fear and hate, or by love and understanding?
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Leary: Don’t be a Victim
“To operate your brain you must understand how to use your eyes. Oh say, can you see? Oh say, can’t you see what is being done to your eyes? ... Oh say, can’t you see that the messages that hit your eyeballs in modern television are creating realities, imprinting messages from the sponsors who are not usually interested in your learning how to design your own realities.”
Is it easier to sit back, to allow others to decide for you?
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Leary: Suppression of Women, Children, and People of Color by Men with Guns
“Most of our lives, most of us live in realities determined by others, imprinted in our brains by education, by religion, by politics, by the authorities. McLuhan* said, “If you want to change your mind, change the medium.” Change the words you use. Change the mode of communication. If you change the medium, you change yourself. You change your society.”
“There is one, global human race.”
What does this statement mean to you? Are all humans treated equally? If not, why not?
*Marshall McCluhan was a Canadian Philosopher whose work is the study of media theory.
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Leary: Hold Our Noses and Vote for the Democrats!
Who are the Democratic voters?
Women are more likely than men to support abortion rights, and they’re much more likely to be enraged if they lose those rights.
Democrats are widely concerned about racial inequality, and there is near-unanimous support for tax hikes on the wealthy.
Most Democrats think that climate change should be a top priority for the government.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/POLLING/byprjqmdjpe/democrat/
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Timothy Leary is known for exploration into the mind through the use of psychedelics. I have more that I can offer on that subject, however, in this presentation, it is my intention to present the most important parts of his message - that people think for themselves, to know themselves, and to question authority.
What do you think?
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