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Tim Leary: DON’T TAKE LSD… (V 0.2.1)
Dr. Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) in Documentary CBC: “How To Go Out of Your Mind: The LSD Crisis” (1966) “” We always have urged people: Don’t take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don’t take it unless you have someone that’s very experienced with you to guide you through it. And don’t take it unless you are ready to have your perspective on yourself and your life radically changed, because you’re gonna be a different person, and you should be ready to face this possibility. “” (3:40) XKP & Mr. L – “Thee Spirit Ov Thee Molecule” (~5′ of 6’13″) written, produced & mixed by Craig Ellenwood; Dr. Leary’s voice recorded by Genesis P.Orridge. (7:44) Love Spirals Downwards “KYKEON” (~2′ of 4’51″) — both from album “50 Years of Sunshine”, Silent Records 1993 === === === ” Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for astronomy. ” — Dr. Stanislav Grof ” The future may teach us to exercise a direct influence, by means of particular chemical substances, on the amount of energy and their distribution in the mental apparatus. It may be that there are still undreamt-of possibilities of therapy. ” — Sigmund Freud (1938) (Unbeknownst to Dr. Freud) LSD was first synthesized in 1938. ” LSD offers unique opportunities: for HEALING of emotional and psychosomatic disorders, for POSITIVE PERSONALITY TRANSFORMATION …
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Cybernetics & Entheogenics: From Cyberspace to Neurospace
Another great essay by Peter Lamborn Wilson in which he attempts to bridge the divide between cyberspace and neruo space accelerated with the use of hallucinogenic drugs.
The term “Neurospace” I learned from the Kiev artist Vladimir Muzehesky, through Geert Lovink. What I immediately thought he meant by it was a comparison of that space which is posited as belonging to the computer with the neural space or the inner-body experience, that comes, for most of us, largely through psychedelic drugs–neurospace as the space of hallucinations, for example. I would like to compare and contrast, as they used to say in school, cyberspace and neurospace. There are similarities and differences.
I remember some years ago, when virtual reality suddenly appeared with a big whizbang on the scene, going to a conference in New York where Timothy Leary, God bless him, appeared with Jaron Lanier and couple of other cybernauts. Tim was wearing the goggles, he was on stage and he said, “Oooh, I have been here before.” So right from the start there was this connection set up between virtual reality and the LSD experience–or as some us prefer to call it “the entheogenic experience,” which is just a fancy way of not using the word psychedelic because it alerts the police. Actually, “entheogenic” means the birth of the “Divine Within.” I am able to use this term that is meaningful for me even though I am not a theist in the strict sense of the word. I dont think you have to believe in God to understand that there can be an experience of the Divine Becoming Within.
Link: Cybernetics & Entheogenics: From Cyberspace to Neurospace
