Talkshow hosts tried to grill Tim Leary

Discussion in 'LSD - Acid Trips' started by PeaceInTheStreets, Sep 17, 2009.

  1. IpsissimusFaustus

    IpsissimusFaustus Member

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    I like Leary personally, he seemed like a pretty decent dude, but the way he promoted LSD was vastly irresponsible. In fact, if Leary had kept a little lower profile, acid might not be so demonized today. At least I'd hope it could be studied more readily. I'm all for the use of psychedelics as a personal tool or sacrament (whatever you want to call it), but saying everyone should turn on, tune in, and drop out is foolish. I bet at least a third of the world is not mentally sound enough to handle such a powerful drug at all.
     
  2. sunfighter

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    And Leary was a lot more responsible than Kesey, who conducted the Acid Tests. Certainly, there were some acid casualties.
     
  3. toastacidblocks

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    fuck tim leary, he's (was) a pretentious fag.
     
  4. PeaceInTheStreets

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    I know your joking man... right? I mean look at your name. An acid head that hates on Tim Leary... is that possible?
     
  5. Geprodis

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    Linkletter's daughter did use LSD, but it was almost a year before she killed herself. Linkletter says her depression started when she did LSD and it led to her death. I feel bad for any parent who loses a child to suicide, but it wasn't LSD that caused her death.

    One thing about Leary - I know something he liked way more than LSD: fame. I think Leary did more harm than good - and I think his motivation was fame rather than enlightenment.
     
  6. cataclysmic cognition

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    I think Tim Leary was a brilliant man, but he had a huge ego. I thought acid was about attaining a state of ego dissolution.
     
  7. porkstock41

    porkstock41 Every time across from me...not there!

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    Leary seemed kinda like a madman at the beginning of the video
    but he seemed to have won me over by the end
     
  8. PeaceInTheStreets

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    Well if it was all for ego he sure did pretend he believed in the power of LSD very well. He definitely stated points clearly. I respect your opinion but I don't believe it was for fame. He had fame but the type of fame that was looked down upon by most. He was idolized by the ones who believed in experimenting with substances and changing their minds. Society looked down upon him, arrested him, and was even called the most dangerous man in the US.
     
  9. explorer83

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    I've noticed a duality to this aspect of LSD and other psychs in that after getting rid of the ego, the human conciousness has the possibility of pushing back and making you "proud" of knowing something that not many other people know and kind of boost your ego. Why do you think people brag about taking outrageous doses, etc.
     
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