Timothy Leary - Timothy Leary Timothy Leary (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, and drug campaigner. As a proponent of the drug LSD during the 1960s, he coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out." Leary was a psychology professor at Harvard University in the 1950s. While on vacation in Mexico, he tried hallucinogenic psilocybin-bearing mushrooms while participating in a Native American religious ritual, an experience that would vastly alter the course of his life. Upon his return to Harvard in 1960, Leary and his associates, notably Dr. Richard Alpbert, began conducting research into the effects of psilocybin and later LSD with graduate students. Dr. Leary argued that LSD, used with the right dosage, set (what one brings to.
Leary biscuit - Leary biscuit A Leary biscuit is a snack consisting of a cracker, cheese, and a marijuana bud. It is heated in a microwave oven to activate the tetrahydrocannabinol (the active ingredient in cannabis) and cause a cannabis "high" in the eater. Timothy Leary was reportedly fond of these concoctions, even in the later years of his life, and thus they are named for him. See also: Alice B. Toklas brownie.
Ken Kesey - band, The Warlocks, later known as the Grateful Dead), black lights, fluorescent paint, strobes, and other "psychedelic" effects, and of course LSD (often slipped surreptitiously into a punch). When the publication of his second novel Sometimes a Great Notion in 1964 required his presence in New York, Kesey, Cassady, and others in a group of friends they called the "Merry Pranksters" took a cross-country trip in a school bus nicknamed Further. This trip, described in Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (and later in Kesey's own screenplay "The Further Inquiry") included many stops along the way for audience-participation acid tests, now including raps by Cassady. In New York, Cassady introduced Kesey to Kerouac and to Allen Ginsberg, who in turn introduced them to Timothy Leary. Kesey and some of.
John C. Lilly - was a prominent member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers that arose in the late 1960’s and early 70’s . Ram Dass, Werner Erhard and Timothy Leary were all frequent visitors to his home. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Career Summary 2 Career History 3 Influence on Hollywood 4 Later Vision 5 References 6.
H. R. Giger - bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship. His paintings often display fetishistic sexual imagery and are considered disturbing by some. Some of his paintings also feature Satanic imagery, though Giger himself is not known to be a Satanist. He is largely inspired by Salvador Dali and was a personal friend of Timothy Leary. He has also created furniture designs, particularly the Harkonnen Capo Chair for an unproduced movie version of the novel Dune that was originally slated to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowski (many years later David Lynch directed the film, using none of Giger's designs). Giger has also applied his biomechanical style to interior design, and several "Giger Bars" have sprung up in such diverse locations as Japan. His art has greatly influenced tattooists and fetishists worldwide. H.R. Giger.
Human Be-In - creators of the San Francisco Oracle, which first hit the streets in September 1966, made at the Love Pageant Rally; the playful name combined humanist values with the scores of Sit-Ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the last vestiges of entrenched Segregation, starting with the Woolworth's lunch counter "sit-in' of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Human Be-In was announced on the cover of the first issue of the San Francisco Oracle as "A Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In." Speakers at the rally included Timothy Leary in his first San Francisco appearance, who set the tone that afternoon with his famous phrase "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" and Richard Alpert soon to be more widely known as 'Ram Dass', and poets like.
G. Gordon Liddy - Graduating in 1957, he went to work for the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. Also in 1957 he married Frances Ann Purcell. He left the FBI in 1962 and worked as a lawyer in New York City and Dutchess County, New York. In 1966 he organized the arrest and unsuccessful trial of Timothy Leary. He ran unsuccessfully for the post of District Attorney and then for the House of Representatives in 1968. But he used his political profile to run the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon in the 28th district of New York. In 1971, after serving unsuccessfully in several positions in the Nixon administration, Liddy was moved to Nixon's 1972 campaign, the Committee to Re-elect the President, also known as CREEP, in order to extend the scope and reach of.
Uma Thurman - Buddhist upbringing. Her Swedish mother Nena was introduced to her first husband, Timothy Leary, by Salvador Dali, whom she divorced after less than a year before marrying Uma's father Robert, a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University. "Uma" is the name of a Hindu goddess of light and beauty. Uma Thurman left school at the age of 15 to pursue an acting career in New York City. In 1990 she married actor Gary Oldman, but divorced him two years later. In 1998 she married actor Ethan Hawke, whom she had met at the set of Gattaca, and gave birth to a daughter Maya Ray. Thurman became a pop culture legend when, at an Oscar Awards ceremony, talk show host David Letterman lampooned her name by pretending to introduce her.
Eight - Eight (八 pinyin ba1) is considered a lucky number in Chinese culture because it sounds like the word "prosper" (發 pinyin fa1). There are eight musicians in an octet. Eight babies delivered in one birth are called octuplets. The first set of eight surviving babies, the Louis-Chukwu Octuplets, were born in 1998. On The Simpsons, Apu and his wife Manjula have a set of octuplets. All spiders, and more generally all arachnids, have eight legs. An octopus has eight tentacles. In Buddhism, the Eightfold Path is the way to spiritual progress. Timothy Leary identified a hierarchy of eight levels of consciousness. October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar, August is currently the eighth month. Eight cannot be said by a wizard on the Discworld and is also the number.
Diane Di Prima - Prima spent the early 1960s in Manhattan, where she became part of the Beat movement. She edited The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre and founder of the Poets Press. In 1966, she moved to Millbrook to join Timothy Leary’s psychedelic community there. Later Life and Work In the early 1970s, she moved to California, where she has lived ever since. Here, she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism, Sanskrit, Gnosticism and alchemy. She also published her major work, the long poem Loba in 1978, with an enlarged edition in 1998. She teaches and continues writing, having published thirty-five books of poetry. Her selected poems, Pieces of a Song was published in 1990 and a memoir, Recollections of My.
1969 in music - February 15 - Vickie Jones is arrested for impersonating Aretha Franklin in a concert performance. Jones' impersonation was so convincing that nobody in the audience asked for a refund. February 17 - Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan record together in Nashville, Tennessee. Only one song, "Girl from the North Country", would be released from these sessions. February 18 - Lulu and Bee Gee Maurice Gibb are married in England March 1 - During a performance at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested for exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness. March 9 - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is canceled by CBS March 12 - The 11th Grammy Awards are presented March.
1988 in Canada - - The Supreme Court rules that the Quebec Charter of the French Language is unconstitutional December 21 - The Quebec government reinstates the language laws using the notwithstanding clause Svend Robinson, a Member of Parliament since 1979 announces that he is gay Maher Arar immigrates to Canada David Lam becomes Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Calgary hosts the 1988 Winter Olympics CHUM media buys the building at the corner of Queen and John streets in Toronto as their headquarters. Conrad Black gains control of the The Spectator The War Measures Act is replaced with the Emergencies Act. Figure skater Kurt Browning completes the first ever quadruple toe loop in competition Arts and literature New works Timothy Findley - Stones Morley Callaghan - A Wild Old Man on the Road Jeffrey Simpson.
Aleister Crowley - with a mystical initiatory system derived in part from the Golden Dawn. Chief among the precepts of Thelema is the sovereignty of the individual will: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" is, as it were, the system's first commandment. Crowley's idea of will, however, is not simply the individual's desires or wishes, but also incorporates a sense of the person's destiny or greater purpose: what he termed the Magick Will. Much of the initiatory system of Thelema is focused on discovering one's true will, true purpose, or higher self. The second commandment of Thelema is "Love is the law, love under will"—and Crowley's meaning of "Love" is as complex as that of "Will". It is frequently sexual: Crowley's system, like elements of the Golden Dawn before.
Altered state of consciousness - practice of certain rituals (e.g. prayer) and disciplines (e.g. yoga). Naturally occurring altered states of consciousness include channeling, dreams, premonitions, euphoria, and limerence. Also see Claudio Naranjo Aldous Huxley Carlos Castaneda Timothy Leary John C. Lilly: http://www.johnclilly.com/ Charles Tart dreaming trance out of body experience.
Spoken-word - a musical background, but emphasis is kept on the speaker. Important artists: Henry Rollins Timothy Leary Jello Biafra Allen Ginsberg Bill Hicks Alix Olson Saul Williams.
Weathermen - against the United States government, changing its name to the "weather underground organization", adopting fake identities, and pursuing covert activities only. These initially included preparations for a bombing of US military noncommissioned officers' dance at Fort Dix. But when three Underground members died in an accidental explosion while preparing the bomb in a Greenwich Village, New York City safe house, other cells reevaluated their plans and decided to pursue only non-lethal projects. The group released a number of manifestos and declarations, while conducting a series of bombings, attacking the U.S. Capitol, The Pentagon, police and prison buildings, and the rebuilt Haymarket statue again, among other targets. They successfully broke LSD advocate Timothy Leary out of prison and transported him to Algeria. They remained largely successful at avoiding the police. In the.
Summer of Love - when the hippie movement came to full fruition. The actual beginning of this "Summer" can be attributed to the Human Be-In that took place in Golden Gate Park on January 14 of that year. Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and the Jefferson Airplane all participated in the event, a celebration of hippie culture and values. John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas took twenty minutes to write "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair... If you come to San Francisco, Summertime will be a love-in there.' The song was designed originally to promote the upcoming Monterey Pop Festival, in June. Scott McKenzie's cover of the song was released in May 1967 [1]. Later that summer, thousands of young people from around the nation.
Reptilian humanoid - children, and also tales of Serpents of Wisdom enlightening Humankind (such as the story of Gukumatz). Cecrops, first King of Athens was said to have been half man, half snake. In Pythagoras' life there may have been events related to serpents, particularly winged and speaking serpents, as well as a massive beast called Python, a giant serpent for which he may have been named. Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and Philip K. Dick all have called themselves Pythagoreans. However, Wilson is known for stating (often half-seriously) various forms of conspiracy theory, Dick's possible mental illness is covered in more detail below, and Leary is widely known to have consumed copious amounts of hallucinogens. Modern claims David Icke and others claim that many people see reptilian humanoids or dinosauroids, and that beings.
Richard Alpert - his controversial research program which studied the effects of LSD. Alpert worked closely with Dr. Timothy Leary at Harvard, where the two conducted many experiments on the effects of LSD. The pair were dismissed from the university in 1963 due to their controversial research. They relocated, and continued their experiments at a private mansion in New York (see LSD). In 1967, Alpert travelled to India, where he became heavily involved in meditative practice and yoga. After meeting and becoming a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba, a Hindu guru in Uttar Pradesh, he changed his name to Ram Dass, meaning servant of God. Upon his return to the United States, Alpert founded several organizations dedicated to expanding spiritual awareness and promoting spiritual growth. References Be Here Now (1971) Doing Your Own Being.
Robert Anton Wilson - and Wilson were working as editors there.) In Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), he made Discordianism, Sufism, futurism, the Illuminati and other esoteric or counter-culture philosophies accessible to larger audiences. He is also a proponent of Timothy Leary's eight-brain circuit model and neurosomatic/lingustic engineering, which he writes about in Prometheus Rising (1983) and Quantum Psychology (1990), books of practical techniques to break free of one's "reality tunnels," though he is a vociferous critic of James Randi's efforts to break the reality tunnels for which Wilson feels affection. With Leary he helped promote the futurist ideas of space migration, life extension, and intelligence enhancement technologies); he is a more cogent and persuasive exponent of Leary's "imprinting circuit" theory of psychological development than Leary was himself. Other fictional books.
