Timothy Leary speaking at UCLA 1/18/1967
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Wow. A recording of the actual lecture by Tim Leary that I attended at UCLA in January 1967.
I was very impressed with Leary's charisma. I remember leaving the lecture convinced that I would try LSD soon. (About a year later I tripped for the first time.)
But that wasn't my only take-away. I realized that you could hear lectures like this in college--brilliant, inspiring lectures--and I determined to attend college full time. (At the time I was a part-time night student at Santa Monica City College, but I liked to hang out at the UCLA campus in Westwood.)
There's a visual gag that you miss listening to the tape at the 2:54 mark. When he says, "The chemical I'm about to ingest is odorless, tasteless and colorless. It's addictive. It can be lethal in large quantities." He drinks from a glass of water.
The Q&A at the end is good, too.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the water joke context! Visual humor is hard to convey in an audio recording, for sure.
.... I like how Dr. Leary, in the first few minutes, describes the water he's about to drink using the same, alarmist language the government uses when describing a "controlled substance".... Brilliant ! ! !
Nice tactic to appear charming from the get-go and get the young gullible audiences listening, sure.
@@ghostehh You aren't thinking for your self lol, let me help you by telling you to take a large dose of some real LSD
WOW, so much wisdom in so little time...special video
4:24 The religious experience
5:06 The religious search
5:56 The divine process
7:40 Tuning in and dropping out
9:40 Politics
10:07 Medical profession
10:47 His ‘profession’ - the searcher of the divine process - guru, alchemist, shaman, psycho-physicist, spiritual teacher
11:29 The Varieties of Religious Experience book (William James, American psychologist and Harvard prof). Running nitrous oxides experiments to arrive at ‘mystic experiences.’
13:28 The processes of consciousness
15:17 The establishment would look into the microscope and say “There’s no place for this in our bibles or medical tracks, clearly this is the work of the devil - arrest that man!”
18:00 The process of turning on - requires a ‘sacrament’
20:03 The real danger of a sacrament that works is its danger to the current establishment. If it works, it throws into a different perspective the rituals and the orthodoxy and the structure of the time.
21:40 Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformation. *The printing press was a dangerous device, it really pulled the rug out of the establishment.* A new technological device that is seen as unnatural by society.
23:00 Dad was a dentist, gave him nitrous oxide at 7 y/o
25:00 Novacane is a consciousness contracting drug
30:45 “The dentist couldn’t afford people having religious experiences in his office, or they’d take his healing card away.”
36:30 ‘Dropping out’
41:50 “You were all born Buddhas.”
42:48 “This is the ancient setup / tension between the young and the old. You’ve got to drop out of the old man’s game.” War is a game to defend the chess pieces of status and external power that go along with menopausal activity. *Men seek external power when they’ve lost the internal power.*
45:35 “UCLA is sponsored by taxes paid by menopausal people to make you like them.”
46:20 “The real addictive narcotic process in this country is the establishment.”
46:38 Heroin junkies - ‘cozy, warm, soft, cottony and cozy’
47:80 “Dropping out” as Leary describes it, is essentially deconstructing The Matrix Code behind the established code of conduct / cultural game - and to be aware that it’s a carefully constructed construct to propel an established agenda (i.e. TV tell-a-vision brainwashing), and that you have the choice to see life for what it is, to question authority, and to play your own game (thankfully, the creation of the internet has made huge strides in helping humankind to do just that).
48:50 You have to become creative, to create your own game (entrepreneurship).
49:30 “Menopausal mentality wants to pass laws to keep you coming along.”
51:24 “The 20% of college students today are using LSD and marijuana are centered at the better colleges - IVY League, California colleges, the University of Chicago.”
1:03:15 Jiddhu Krisnamurti
1:05:39 “The new religion always starts with those 3 groups: 1) The young, 2) The creative artists who are dissatisfied with society, 3) the Minority groups of color. The new religion always starts on the lower east side.”
1:11:35 “Baron Rockefeller of New York” (John D Rockefeller)
1:18:00 He is an Irishman - Irish talk a lot in wild poetic fantasies
1:22:10 Orthodoxy, dogma, bureaucracy, politicization
1:22:40 He worships the DNA code as the ‘most complex manifestation of the divine process’
1:27:00 Oil politics runs the world - behind LBJ is the Texas oilman
Thank you!
@@JoJoJoker Sure
Tim your vision , your courage and your sacrifice is still burning ! Still freeing robots 🤖 ☀️❤️ Bravo !
Wrong. Thousand, maybe millions ar e in hell because they bought into the vain and foolish philosophies of people like this
My God, this was absolutely wonderful. I wish I could have met this man. I think we would've gotten along VERY well.
He came to the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. in 1968, while I was a student at the nee cluster college, Callison. Our enlightened Professor of World Religions, Lawrence Meredith, invited him to speak to us. This was the epicentre
of the "hippy" movement. The following year, my entire Charter Class went to India and studied a non-Western culture with Indian professors, Buddhist scholars, etc. He sounded much as in this recording - intelligent, educated, rather prolix. Most of us were using some sort of drug - a few tried psychedelic mushrooms or LSD. I don't think any of us were "converted" to a new way of thinking by him, but he elucidated some of what we intuited, and by tying everything into "the religious experience", he gave drugs and experimentation credibility and even respectability. That was something we felt we needed, since our parents disapproved and censured us. Being young then was full of hope, high expectations, high aspirations - especially spiritually. Being young now is dreadful. I wouldn't be young today for all the money in the world.
His partner Ram Dass is much better sadhu/guru
You should check out Alan Watts, the original.....
This man is my Brother. Always has been.
Wow this dude was a serious high intellect
He sure was. RIP
Intelligence above & beyond what he was ever credited…Tim was an absolutely brilliant human being.
The world is a brighter & better place for what he shared.
Yes he and Ram Dass were integral part of the human mind expanding consciousness movement....they both testified before the Senate on the benefits of hallucinagentics and the CIA of course did research as well although for nefarious reasons...Acid opens your mind to a whole new beautiful living breathing dimension. Everything is alive...and at least for me , full of love. ✌️🌹🌈
He is/was Winona Ryders godfather...
He was an FBI agent.
his content is worth the length
This is terrifyingly relevant right now.
I'm here from 2018 to tell you: you ain't seen nothin yet.
we're going backward.
@@brubeck1 upside down!
2020 baby ;)
Why?
Today Commemorates Timothy Leary's 100th Birthday
Loved The Psychedelic Experience and Be Here Now. They will live forever.
Thank you…better late than never. Hallelujah 🎶🌸
Three years later they were giving him 20 years for a couple of joints. BOEL got Weather Underground to break him out of prison and got him to Algiers through safe houses. Really interesting time to be young but I didn't know if we would survive those years.
he's our beloved leader. the founder of it all. one of them. his voice comforts me.
One of us
Knew him well. The reason we are booting our brains up! Loved him dearly.
My absolute number 1 favorite RUclips video: "How to operate your brain".
I am very fortunate to be able to listen to Dr. Leary's philosophy. I have a Master of Sc ie nce degree with a minor in philosophy.
I love deep discussions. I am a Christian. I believe that God gave me LSD and DXM (which I enjoy today) to help me understand my self and my place in the universe. Thank you God.
Frank Reiser M.S. you mean dmt not dxm right?
You are definitely the coolest Christian I’ve ever heard of then dude. I’d trip with ya 🤘🏻
Not to 'offend ' you, but you are not born again..and it is satan who gave you DXM and LSD Sir you have been deceived. You need to give your whole heart to Jesus Christ and at the same time, confess that you are.. by nature .. a sinner. He will forgive you, and save you, and also give you everlasting life.and i would rather have grade eight, and know the bible, and know Christ.. than have a BSc and be lost. ( I just have the Diploma)
@@hippy1002
You are right! I have been deceived by LSD and DXM! I have stopped abusing all drugs and alcohol through the power of the Holy Spirit. My problem now is quitting smoking, but at least I have cut down. I still sometimes relapse on drugs and alcohol, but very infrequently. When I sin now, I come to the Lord through the name of Jesus Christ and I thank Him for forgiving me through the blood of Christ. The thing about LSD and DXM is that they caused me to realize that life is just an illusion, We are here temporary, I now live for God. I praise God for filling me with the Holy Spirit and for giving me the ability to not fall into the temptations that I used to freely give into all the time. PRAISE GOD, JESUS CHRIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT! And, my friend, I will meet you in Heaven!
@hippy1002 Shut up. Be quiet. Your archaic dogmatism is a splinter in the minds of the free individual. You worship christ for his image, not for what he said.
It's not about Jesus, or God for that matter, judging you and forgiving you. It's about your growth as an individual.
The church inserted a domineering splinter in the back of your head, and Christ's crucifixion won't end until you remove it.
Make Marijuana legal: Check
Put hallucinogens back into treatment of depression: Check
It was very very easy to comprehend for I had Ecuadorian and Irish Nuns who instructed I/We upon the opening of the eye of God!
It is all fractals!
Flowers. Five Petal Pointed Flowers. Spiral TO BLOOM, and fractals from there each lil bloom to spiral to more blooms,
2:50 "The chemical I'm about to ingest is odorless tasteless and colorless. It's addictive, can be lethal in large quantities, it hard to get in it's pure state. "-- water
"in its pure state", not it's which means IT IS.
Human Be in was just 4 days earlier
Many people attacking what they don’t understand in the comments unfortunately
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I was born in the fall of 1965 the start of Gen X.
I had never heard any of this as we did not have TV till some years later.
None of this was ever spoken of when I was in school and I naturally dropped out of the lies of public indoctrination (school) and been telling people these things most of my life.
I had never done any sort of psychedelics but yet I knew of and understood things that people only tuned into after doing psychedelics.
However, Dr. Leary was doing uncontrolled experiments w/ hallucinogens. He had no way of knowing what parts of the brain were being affected, and without controls, he had no way to measure improvements caused by the drug.
He had his subjective experience which was positive, but as compared to what prior experience?
And sadly, there are reports of many tragic experiences w/ hallucinogens. Again knowing what you want to affect, to what degree, and by what specific method of delivery is essential. Otherwise, one doesn’t know what the results mean.
The experiments that I’m barely aware of that use psilocybin to treat PTSD in military personnel (and maybe others) seem to be successful in decreasing or eliminating the debilitating symptoms of PTSD (ruminations, intrusive thoughts, hyper-reactivity, panic, anxiety and others) . The treatments are quite helpful in restoring a person’s usual life. Depression is closely linked to anxiety, and psilocybin seems to improve that as well.
So progress is being made and as long as the GOP stays squashed, there might be a bit of hope for the future.
Or as Emily Dickinson said, “Hope is the thing w/ feathers.”
in 1968, a guy I went to school with.. followed leary's advice. He dropped acid. .. and leapt off the span of the Lion's Gate Bridge.. 220 foot fall That part of the trip took 4.2 seconds, if you factor in wind resistance.. He had just enough time to cry out these words. "Lord Jesus, please have mercy on me!' and I truly hope he did ..
@@hippy1002 When it comes to psychedelic compounds, you need to have a strong psyche when going into the experience & be in a good place externally.
Think of it like a little kid at the swimming pool with no swimming experience whatsoever & wearing no safety tube running and jumping straight into the 5ft-6ft deep end half of the pool but nobody isn’t there to help but themselves.
Hi hello from the year 2021 um...not quite sure about that "go home and turn your parents on" part. Please clarify. K thanks
I think we are culturally making a slow sweep around to enlightenment. Hallucinogens, a tool that can kickstart our spiritual growth. However...... I got sick of hearing him say "menopausal" ..... it felt to me like subtle subconscious misogyny. I embrace the idea that menopausal and post-menopausal women are/can/should be revered as crones and wisdom-keepers.
What enlightenment? What spiritual growth? Where is the difference between spiritual and material?
LOL For real????????????????
Sorry comment was to your one part, "Culturally making a slow sweep around to enlightenment"Couldnt be further fromt he truth my friend.
We are the Jesuses 😊 of the now
Newer bowing
Never coerced
Never succumbing
Never done
Neither left nor right but truly centered
Always on the divine adventure
The mind wonders what wizard of westwood john wooden and soon to arrive bill Walton would think about this campus lecture.. thank you..UCLA
NO N N NO - HE'S OUTSIDE - LOOKING IN .......
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Listen you beloved Roberts.
6 people a hundred bucks and a lawyer - OMFG
It’s interesting to consider that RUclips, google, “big tech” choose not to censor this comparatively to how they sensor other alternative and free thought.
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The establishment is a reflection of our consciousness. The menopausal people are part of us too because we are One Consciousness thus, to help that part of Consciousness that is hurt and afraid we must forgive it, accept it and heal it. There is no standardization of reality, no rules nor even matter to cling on to. In quantum physics, just as Timothy said, everything is energy and this energy is interpreted by our individual consciousness. We don't need to be trained nor schooled for anything because not only the Kingdom of Heaven is within but the infinite creative intelligence responsible for all there is, is there too: omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. It is the cultural constructs, believes, opinions, religions, ideologies and "personality" that put "another brick on the wall" (Pink Floyd, The Wall) to separate us from the Divine rhythm.
Let's turn on, tune in and drop out, the time is NOW!
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It's about keeping your👣word 1st, if hu think hu can keep the Word of G👁️D, otherwise you'll need a lawyer. Be the Advocate!
To much to think about.
But it is what it is!
Too much not to much.
Just my two cents..
It’s a trip to me to think that people think that he’s “crazy” or “dangerous” etc.. but in actuality, he’s like a time traveler sent back from the future in-order to let humanity know what we need to do to improve humanity progressively in a universal sense for the future. You’d have to experience the level of “trips” or “journey’s” that he’s been on to over-stand/inner-stand what he’s saying & it’s brilliant when you really think about it.
one trip, two trips. One journey, two journeys. Simple plurals.
Lol he’s just a guy who understands the world and the mind, nothing more. He was shown the truth of nature by natives in Mexico who allowed him to partake in their mushroom ceremony.
DR TIM!!😎😎🤗
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Now must stay, "Namaste"!
1:20:48 Is a trip just another illusion?
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What happened to UCLA's recording of George Lincoln Rockwell?
RUclips deleted it for violating their policies.
Psilocybin mushrooms is the thing for me
Are the things. Mushrooms are plural, so the verb needs to agree.
My comment at 20.27 is that in 70s 3 "miracles" or "anti miracles" happened. Wine to water. 1975. 1972 opposite Elm Street, a beam of light. 5 years ago here 2 pairs of prescription eye glasses vanished from my pocket. It is possible to "act" outside the material world/universe. There is a steep cost too. I'm not an "american". 1967? 12 years old. Unley highschool. Kitchener Street Netherby, co ed. 4 other highschols within 2 miles. lots of school drug use including LSD.
a couple years later a parent of fellow Unley highschool students did LSD research. The Beatles did songs about children and he jumped off a Cliff Ricahr UK pop star, and died. Time location? moon walk weeks..
The first thing he had to do was locate himself in the Space-Time Fabric of the entire Universe... That's some good shit !
mutations are random, so your lucky if you got the right ones
you're lucky if you survive long enough to reproduce
You're lucky, not "your lucky". You're=you are. Learn your own language.
Boomers shoulda listened, but they didn’t.
I am born in 1945, and you have no idea how glad I am that I didn't listen to fools like this one. Most who did are dead and gone
@@hippy1002 listen closer boomer
Eucharistic adoration better than LSD
To bad Leary wanted to change political structure of the USA.If he would have kept quiet about LSD like Adolus Huxley did , good research on psychedelics good have proceeded.
"Don't rush home and beat up on Mom and Dad. Go home and turn on Mom and Dad!"
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He speaks
With gaps
And pauses
As much as possible
So
I
Fell
Asleep
You're low IQ.
I've got to know one thing: was he tripping during this lecture? I sorta just assumed he was, but if anyone knows if he was that'd be great.
I do not think so. But what do I know?
His joke was that the colorless, odorless substance was a glass of water not lsd
reedca97 no he isn't
No. He wasn't. He is "lucid and sober". Fierce, brave. And that's the whole point.
'the phenomena of xmas cards' haha
DR. GORDIN WHY LISTEN TO MANSON
Tim would of been super excited to know his pioneer experimenting with LSD type drugs. Is now used in world wide medical experiments and cures. :)
Mike Hunt which planet are you living on?
@@waswaswad this guy is the proof of parallel universes.
LSD is not used in cures. THINK
Timothy Leary's dead? No, no, he's on the outside looking in.
Now I see why this man was was considered by Nixon the most dangerous man in America... wow!
Good point. Even though I (a right wijnger) didn't like Nixon all that much. Nixon got that right
@@hippy1002 What?
It should not be a class one narcotic. However, there has to be extreme regulation in scientific study that is quantify and closely monitored. If it is going to occur without legal consent it is the obligation of the government and those responsible to experiment in the clothes environment to potential mental health medicinal purposes they can be acquired from this where it is not being flippantly distributed on the streets and is understood, so our citizens are not injured in the future.
Anyone else hear George Carlin in these sentiments?
Well George at this time was doing LSD actually, he was a user, and he was tuned into what was happening around him so his comedy was very educational.
@@archilonshadowheart7 what proof do you have of that? He bought my book!
@@AlexSGabor His fucking mouth thats where! haha, look and you'll find it, i'm not searching through years worth of material to find it for you. While i'm here though i will say LSD was probably the one good thing George did, it was the cocaine that was the problem THAT you should easily be able to find out about as it relates to his ''holidays'' wherever that was i forget, was eerily similar enough to what Ronnie Wood did, as it relates to there wives and pissing off/disappointing there children. But if i do come across the bit about George talking about it i'll try link it to you.
44:00
I think Tim changed after Vacaville. He became a bit dogmatic and seemed to embrace the concept of Transhumanism, or the seeds of it. One thing that sticks with me though was his 2 Commandments:. Thou Shalt Not Alter the Consciousness of thy Fellow Man. Thou Shalt Not Prevent Thy Fellow Man From Altering His Own Consciousness.
We were Buddha's at birth until our innocence was taken. Now, it's time to take it back!
🤗😁😀💖😉😊
Nobody is born innocent. mankind is fallen. Read the headlines if you need proof
There are more red fruits in California than any other place in the USA.
Red fruit? You mean pomegranates, strawberries, etc.? Why would you listen to a lecture by Tim Leary if you feel this way?
Does anybody know why NASA took this guy's ashes to outer-space?
+Chad du Messie Not all his ashes, says Wikipedia, but only 7 grams of them, along with the Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's ashes, and 25 or so other lesser-knowns', mostly rocket scientists. Some kind of honour, I guess. After 6 years in orbit, it all descended to the atmosphere and burned away. Amazing to hear Leary's voice after all these years. Never listened to him till decades and decades after he spoke.
Didn't want to further pollute the world
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rain cloud.
All mankind has sinned, and we all fall short of the Glory of God (every one of us). and the penalty for sijn is death. but the gift of God is eternal live. yu see, we cannot save ourselves, but God loved the world (and you) SO much that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life. There is heaven. There is hell. There is darkness, there is light. There is the world and satan, and there is God almighty. Choose this day, who you will serve, and may God give you wisdom. When Christ died, he paid the penalty for your sin.. ALL of it, but we need to trust in him, and believe on him
I choose Jesus. This man is an agent of Satan, and probably the CIA, FBI too.
Yeah, religious people assume that only religious experience is truly meaningful. Of course, they would probably claim they take it on faith that this is the case, or that they have personally experienced this kind of experience as being the only truly meaningful one, or that it is a truth that has been revealed to them. Leary's 'religion' is no different in this fundamental belief of the religious. But most human beings would surely disagree. This is because human beings look back on their lives and find what was truly meaningful to them were the human connections they made -- with family, friends, loved ones, etc. -- and whatever they were able to accomplish in their lives in terms of their achievements. They will also look fondly upon the fun and joyful experiences they had in life that were important to them. Religious experience surely has it's value, but to claim that it is only truly meaningful experience a person can ever had is absurd -- in fact, it's BULLSHIT !
(I think Nietzsche more or less said the same)
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oh i thought it was FORMULA 29? straight from LONDON....
Interesting. Unfortunately he would later - after his time in jail - drop all talk about spirituality and 'God' and distance himself from everything hippie. Instead becoming something of a self-parody and harmless joker
bodhi heeren you wont make it without a sense of humour
he was a cool dude to bad
+bodhi heeren Facing LIFE in prison what would you do?
Yeah! Why did he do this? The first few talks that I had ever heard from Leary were of his later years, and I found him to be clownish; a dude full of "bad jokes." I just heard this talk today and I find it incredible! Why did he turn into a clown?
Adam Mueller I think when you have everyone against you, you just go crazy haha
you need a guide? im joking lol you should probably have a guide or sitter. I love being alone myself.
A socialized robot or a drug-filled zombie ? Some choice !
It's got to be more like Preligion due to the fact that religious today are not cutting the proverbial mustard. WE=mc2 must muster our Selves to Drop over ☔ the🌈Rainbow!
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how is this in 1967 if he references ronald regan
Ronald Reagan was the Governor of California in 1967
Reagan was governor of CA at the time.
Ronald Reagan was then governor of California! "Reagan won the election by nearly one million votes. During his two terms as governor (1967-75), " etc. It's all online.
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A man so dangerous even MEXICO kicked him out 😁
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Why do you not need Timothy Leary to tell you life has no meaning, beginning or end?
That ought to be enough to make you tune this idiot out. but if you don't believe in God, or know his Son; life might not have any meahing
questions from mororns who think they have an intellectual highground. ego
I can run real fast in my tennis shoes
Frank
Lol you think your school/class would ask any better questions? I bet many of them had the potential to get PhD's in any subject they wanted to get it in... If this was my school 95% would have no idea what he was talking about and the questions asked from the pupils would be " Which drug would you prefer the most if LSD and THC was not an option" and like " Do you drink Lean? "
[ I am assuming they're all 15-17 year olds]
Lil rappers taking over the world man
at 1:15:15 ... That's a deep question even Leary had to think/feel for a moment there
Srsly.. The question that follows is also legit.. If I were 15-16 I would also ask if he had trouble to verbalize after taking too much LSD...
We were much,much smarter 50 years ago.. Today we have been utterly dumbed down globally.
If they/we were at Learys level, globally, we would all be Buddhas and no war would exist on this planet because everyone would be enlightened and only paradise and utopia would be the way..
The comment thread on this is at least as interesting as the lecture itself. Leary is an idiot, a saint, a deviant, a genius and, my favorite,the devil talking about god (maybe the devil's favorite subject). Some say it is more relevant now than then, others say it was stupid then and more so in retrospect. Maybe he was a CIA agent, maybe Ginsberg and Kesey were as well. I have always thought that Kesey was picked out by he CIA as someone who might go rogue and steal the fire. Convenient for the CIA since they could preserve plausible deniability in their role as potential protagonist of the "psychedelic revolution". The CIA covertly funded the rise of abstract expressionist painting just a decade before. Clever folks in the deep state, always have been. Point is, CIA op or no, the psychedelic revolution DID bring wondrous things into the world dispute the blood on the hands of its carrier, as did abstract expressionism. There is a profound lack of both humor and irony whenever people talk about guys like Leary. People don't see that even a broken clock is right twice a day. They don't see that as much of a monster as Manson, for example, was, he still had things to say about the world outside that were worth listening too. Other way around, Jesus was perhaps the finest human who ever walked the planet but people have done and continue to do monstrous things in his name. So here is a question; if a mass murderer also had the cure for cancer, which would he be remembered for? Hail Eris.
He was just another foolish antichrist. No substance to this guy whatsoever. many died early because they listened to this bas-ard
He destroyed many lives. Damn him.We where so young and naive. We beloved in him.
Looks like something sure destroyed your spelling!
Unconvincing.
Never trust anyone under 40!
CIA hire
@Ross Harris..And???
irish mob sucks.
This is passe
what has supplanted it?
for a heavyweight like leary hes sure a boring speaker!
Your opinion. We listened to him live and he wasn't a bit boring because it was relevant to us. You probably never tried anything more mind expanding then Marmite.
"than Marmite", not then. Ambushed by predictive text.
What utter new-age rubbish
"New-age" from the 60's and 70's...smh🫣😳🙄
He made a fortune out of the desperate
The fact that you think this was somehow about money says a lot about you and how ignorant you are.
@@generationofswine-ge5rw he just typed out what he read or saw on the internet, believe me the copies never stops.. they never think for themselves therefore the shit they say is always so shallow there is little to no argument behind it
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This proof that people that go to University are not necessarily bright : imagine listening to this pyscho-babble and believe it
I guess you don't get it, eh?
Guess you haven't turned on then
Don't be a square man.
You mean "and believing it". At least my generation still knew something about English grammar, instead of relying on moronic emojis, text abbreviations like LOL and a ridiculously overused and limited vocabulary based on "cool", "awesome" and "dude". DUH.
@judeirwin2222
I find it ironic that you point out the new generation's use of vernacular as an example of intellectual degeneration.
The very language you speak and type with was, once upon a time, an incredibly different collection of vocalizations. Old English blended with German, French, and many others to form what we now know as Modern English.
This is the mentality that Leary was talking about. An abrasiveness towards the new, the fascinating, and the novel.
After all, language is just a crutch that we as humans must use to overcome the barriers of understanding. Behind every word, we impart meaning. Behind every symbol, a story.
I think Leary was on to an idea, but he didn't quite have it. Perhaps along the way he lost himself, and that's why his speech pattern is obtuse and awkward.
There's something real there, but discerning it's truth the hazy mirrors of culture and common thought is difficult.
Hence the catch phrase. Turn on, tune in, and drop out.
This guy is funny. He should start a podcast. 🥸
Too bad most of the stuff doesn't make any sense
Just because YOU can't comprehend it doesn't mean it makes no sense.
Too bad YOU ARE too ignorant to understand... . .
How old were the students anyone knows maybe? Anyone could make a shot ?