Timothy Leary
Tinker, Tailor, Stoner, Spy: Was Timothy Leary a CIA Agent? by Mark Riebling
“Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.” -T. Leary
"Beware of emotions. The emotional person is turned off sensually. His body is a churning robot. Emotions are addictive, narcotic, and stupefacient. Moods such as sorrow and joy accompany emotions. Like a junkie who has just connected, the emotional person feels good when he has scored emotionally, i.e., put someone down or been beaten down. Conscious love is not an emotion; it is the serene merging with yourself, with other people, with other forms of energy. Love cannot exist in an emotional state. Emotions are emergency alarms.....The presocial wily-animal god of emotion-locomotion resides within our nervous system, ready to pour out flight-fight endocrine juices (p97)."—T. Leary
"Most religions have been inspired by God the Moralist Dictator, who invariably banished the pleasures of sensuality, eroticism, individual luxury and free art. These taboos are comprehensible because a citizenry that pursues pleasure will tend to pay less attention to domestication and the self-sacrifice that benefit society. The Eastern and Mideastern empires reserved luxury, art, sensuality to the aristocracy.--T. L.
"In March 1980, the month in which these lines were transmitted, I was presented (under the usual dusty backroom circumstances) a volume purporting to be the long-awaited Fourth Secret Teaching of Gurdjieff. For the past twenty years, we Gurdjieff fans had been titillated by rumors of this Fourth Book, which supposedly listed secret techniques and practical methods for attaining the whimsical, post-terrestrial levels obviously inhabited by the jolly Sufi Master. We had always assumed, naturally, that the secret methods involved drugs. So it was a matter of amused satisfaction to read In this newly issued text that not only were brain-activating drugs the keys to Gurdjieffs wonderful, whirling wisdom, but also that the reason for keeping the alkaloids secret was to avoid exactly the penal incarceration which I was enjoying when the following essay was penned."--Tim Leary (Changing my mind among others p192/3)
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Timothy Leary - Official Website
Leary supervised mind control experimentation at a CIA front in Berkeley, CA
for 15 years prior to his massive media promotion in the latter '60s. Leary's
role was to drug, distract and discredit the American anti-war movement. At the
same time, the Agency - after an Army study proposed using potent hallucinogens
for chemical warfare purposes - planted directions for the manufacture of LSD
and STP in academic journals accessible to the public. Lysergic acid was in
large part responsible for the decimation of the left in the '70s, just as
heroin would be used to destroy the Haitian Rastafarian movement - it took no
more than one year - a decade later. Hippies who defend Leary are wrong-headed
and have an unconscionable view of Vietnam-era progressive history, IMhO. The
drug's influence was destructive, and any "revelations" that came from it were
personal and subjective, like reading Proust, self-indulgent, politically
useless. -
AC