wadathink, if ya dont know who he was in the first place........tune in, turn on , drop out
2006-07-06 05:35:03 · 6 answers · asked by junglejimjimmy 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Timothy Leary, like Aldous Huxley, recognized that altered states of consciousness induced by certain drugs expanded conscious awareness faster than the hard ways of a lifetime of study, meditation, reflection, and suffering. He was unfairly ostracized from academia for saying so.
He was against the war in Vietnam and generally stupid,rigid group think that kept the cold war hot. He was a maverick who supported individual freedom and individual rights. He influenced many baby boomers who wanted to break out of the mold of their fathers and explore sex,drugs,human potential and the world of many cultures languages,philosophies and ideas in general.
Those who tear at his contributions feared the anarchy of his ideas which they were too timid to try themselves fearing a loss of control which is intolerable to the ideologues of the right then and now.
So all are welcome, who can, to tune in, turn out and drop out!!!
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2006-07-07 05:52:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 13⤋
He was both.
He was a rigid Harvard geek type psychologist who fractured all his defense systems when he took mushrooms down in Mexico.
Him and Richard Alpert (Ram Das) both got fractured and it shows.
Leary was never able to put himself back together again. He was like Humpty Dumpty.
He must have had a tremendous defense system holding in that stuff inside and now it just ouzes out through the cracks.
It was either Alpert or Leary who once remarked (about mushrooms) that they learned more in 8 hours than in all their 8 years of college about psychology and the nature of the human soul or mind.
When Alpert took some LSD to a holy man in Tibet, the Holy man ate the entire load. A whole bunch of LSD pills. Enough to put a whole block of people on a trip. After 12 hours he remarked: It's ok, but meditation is better.
At the end of a filmed interview in prison, Leary looked right at the camera and said in no uncertain terms you gotta love your children.
He was mad as a hatter when he said it, but who can argue with the wisdom!
2006-07-06 12:52:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he got caught up in some statements he made
and it began to snowball with the Media , so I think he
became a symbol to the young as a prophet and to the
government as a threat to the our countries youth by
telling them drugs are OK , give in and get high
2006-07-06 13:37:59 · answer #3 · answered by BONE° 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably a little of both.
As was Descartes. And J.S. Mill. And Nietchze.
I think it comes with the territroy.
2006-07-06 12:52:51 · answer #4 · answered by Rev Phred 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Timothy Leary, idiot.
2006-07-06 13:08:26 · answer #5 · answered by smoot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you forgot to mention he was a druggie as well
2006-07-06 12:38:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋