Psychedelic Salon 196
Timothy Leary vs. Notre Dame (1968)

PROGRAM NOTES:

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

âOf course, what the politicians debate about is really irrelevant because theyâre in basic agreement. They believe in the system. They just want the power to run it. So they give us the illusion about fighting fiercely about words and tactics and promises, but we know, donât we, that thereâs no choice there.â

âWhatâs it all about? Whatâs life all about? Why are we here? To build bigger and bigger machines? To do things faster and faster and think more and more? In fifty years everyone will know what Iâm telling you tonight. That the only reason for being here is to get on this glorious adventure of finding the Divine, unraveling the great conscious mystery story. Thatâs the only point, ecstatic being, that is, get high and stay high.â

âDope is going to be the religion of the future.â

âYou just canât drop LSD the way you slug a beer. Itâs much too intricateâ

âOnce you start playing around with reality you are never the same.â

âMost of you arenât ready to take psychedelic drugs now because you havenât done much work on the yoga of the senses. To put it in a word, most of you are senseless.â

âIt may not come as a surprise to an audience of Catholics that the sensory realm has, since the dawn of human history, been recognized as one of the great sacramental approaches to the divine. And any religion that has lasted for any time at all has utilized the sensual experience as a way of turning on the beholder, getting him high, getting him ameliorated to a god-intoxicated state.â

âIf you donât have a sacred place stick to beer.â

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