Psychedelic Salon 155
Timothy Leary-Some Thoughts About Change (1945-1985)

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations below are by Dr. Timothy Leary.]

âAs you well-know, I never wanted any credibility. Iâm more concerned with incredibility.â

âI believe in change. Iâm a change agent. I want to keep changing myself. ⦠Change is going to be the norm from now on, and weâre not changing from A to B, weâre changing in an explosive, multi-directional way.â

âYeah, there are forces which slow down change. Certainly, you are aware of the fact that every educational institution, from first grade up to the high altitude of The College of Marin, every institution thatâs supported by taxpayers and administered by politicians is carefully designed to keep young people serenely and productively stupid.â

âItâs necessary to have the conservatives, but itâs also necessary to have the mutants, the migrants, and the people with new ideas.â

âItâs always the intelligent that move. Itâs always the intelligent that migrate, because itâs simply smarter to move out than to stay back in the village and quarrel over cobblestone streets and neighborhood territory. Quarreling over territory is lower mammalian and lower primate [behavior], and itâs the smart, the evolutionary people who always move out.â

âNow they say that there was a counter-culture [in the Sixties]. There was no counter culture. This was a left-wing, partisan statement. There were 100 counter-cultures. There were as many counter-cultures as there were groups of friends and lovers meeting together to look into each othersâ eyes and smile. Thatâs the point of the Sixties, there was not one orthodoxy being replaced by another orthodoxy. ⦠You make your own world. Donât blame your parents and donât blame society. Figure it out for yourself.â

âYou would not have had the drug culture movement of the Sixties if you did not have the do-it-yourself psychology movement of the Fifties.â

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