Scientific Paganism. Your Brain is God.
These are Dr. Leary's ideas, yet every time I bring him up as a possible Prophet for the New Aeon he's rejected because he was a drug fiend and a hedonist. Freud was a Drug Fiend too, do you reject psychiatry? Do you also reject Tesla's ideas because of his personal shortcomings? (which were eerily similar to Leary's) How Scientific are you if you reject an idea without testing it because of it's source?
2007-12-19 00:57:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am not that familiar with his work (maybe I should Google him later) but it would not influence my opinion of his ideas. So he had taken drugs,big deal. Shamans all over the world from the beginning of time have used plants and herbs to help with their journeys, meditations and to meet their power animals and guides, so what is the difference between the two? Just that one is more 'Westernised' and 'like us' whereas the other is considered a tribesman and therefore their word and world is 'different' to ours.
(I sometimes use a very small amount of weed when I'm doing journeys and meditations and believe me, it opens up my mind and I can literally 'see' spirit, the colours are brighter and I am on a different spiritual level. However, if I have too much then I get stoned and then I'm not good for anything. I expect some kind of backlash about this comment but my advice is 'Walk a mile in my shoes before you pass judgement'.) Just because someone takes mind-altering drugs it does not mean their word is any less viable, maybe it is just not viable to you as an individual.
I know what I mean, just having a bit of difficulty in putting it across on here, hope you get my meaning.
2007-12-19 01:35:42 · answer #1 · answered by Witch 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Timothy Leary was NOT a drug fiend, he smoked a little pot and took a little LSD in the 60's. G.W.Bush took pot in the 60's too, (If you believe that BS about him NOT inhaling, I have some swamp land in Florida that you'll find lucrative for development, too), HE'S still the President of the USofA. A concept MUST stand or fail on the merits of the concept, PERIOD, NOT based on the person who developed the concept's character flaws.
BB,
Raji the Green Witch
2007-12-19 02:03:21 · answer #2 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A person's work can be separated from the person. Obviously, who they are or were in life is part of the work on some level but the work can stand for itself. The composer Richard Wagner was a vicious anti-Semite but his music is fantastic.
"You gotta do what you gotta do." - Turanga Leela
"The map is not the territory." - Alfred Korzybski
2007-12-19 02:53:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I plan on buying that book, because you reminded me about it... I heard of it a while ago but never bought it and forgot I wanted to.
I'll accept or reject his ideas after I've read them and researched them. :-D
2007-12-19 01:00:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Definitely not. He was perfect for the culture of the time.
2007-12-19 03:58:27 · answer #5 · answered by ruriksson 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I reject anything that does not come from God.
2007-12-19 01:01:38 · answer #6 · answered by iwant_u2_wantme2000 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No i don't reject his ideas.
and ya good point.
nobodys perfect.
2007-12-19 16:56:42 · answer #7 · answered by Oracle Blackrose ( Pagan ) 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good point.
2007-12-19 00:59:43 · answer #8 · answered by tandkalexander 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋