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Your Brain Is God
Timothy Leary
You are a God . . .
Timothy Leary and his psychedelic research team
quickly discovered that being scientists—not even Harvard scientists—could
shield them from the strong taboo against "brain-change." They discovered
that hanging your brain and expanding your mind with magical plants is against
the law. The brain has replaced the genitals as the forbidden organ that must
not be touched or turned on by the owner. Fortunately there is one
loophole—the religious metaphor. While there is nothing in the Bill of Rights
to protect scientific freedom, there is a First Amendment protection of Freedom
of Religion.
Live like one.
The moment of decision came during a wild all-night
LSD session when Richard Alpert went up to Leary, eyes popping, and announced,
"The East! We must go back to the wisdom of the East!" At first Leary was
reluctant because, like many of us, he responded negatively to the word "God."
Like Galileo and so many other scientists and philosophers before them, they
were in uncharted territory. So religion it would be! Only Timothy
was insistent that there would be no kneeling down, no dogmas, no holy men,
no followers, no churches, no public worship, and no financial offerings.
L
ive your highest vision.
YOUR BRAIN IS GOD is Leary’s summa theology.
It is an activist, do-it-yourself theology. As a kind of scientific paganism,
God is defined in terms of the technologies involved in creating the universe
and engineering the eight stages of evolution, which he called the Eight Crafts
of God. The ritual use of sacraments—LSD and essences of entheogenic plants—accelerates
activating the divinity within and experiencing the eight crafts.
YOUR BRAIN IS GOD tells how to:
Prepare for a session
Embrace ego loss
Handle physical symptoms
Imprint the Taoist experience
Evaluate psychedelic "experts"
Be a psychedelic guide
Enjoy psychedelic prayers
Turn on, turn in, drop out
Grow with the flow.
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