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This collection of essays, written by the poster boy of 1960s counterculture, describes the psychological journey Timothy Leary made in the years following his dismissal from Harvard, as his psychedelic research moved from the scientific to the religious arena. He discusses the nature of religious experience and eight crafts of God, including God as hedonic artist. Leary also examines the Tibetan, Buddhist, and Taoist experiences. In the final chapters, he explores man as god and LSD as sacrament.
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Four months after my being fired from Harvard University the Association of Lutherans Psychologists. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Half &Half,
By Tim (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Your Brain Is God (Paperback)
This book is filling with wonderfully insightful concepts about the nature of humans perception of reality. For anybody who is truely interested in psychology You Brain is God, or any Leary book for that matter, is a good bet. Leary's ideas led me, as a high school student, to change the way I think, view the world scientifically, and to determine my major in college. My only critque is that Leary uses his ideas as a basis for forcing the use of LSD on the public. About half the book focuses on the use of LSD as a religious sacrament. If you're into that part of the book, you'll love it in it's entirety. Otherwise, pick around it and enjoy.
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Are you a god?,
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This review is from: Your Brain Is God (Paperback)
That is the question this book wants you to ask yourself. From a fundamental standpoint religions which aim at self improvement are the best in my opinion. This book is not really about religion though. Leary writes about his early exploration into psychedelics and the proper preperation for a session. He also breaks things down to their simplest level and discusses how we can lose ego and rebuild our thoughts.Some of the questions he poses made me think, and some made me feel like the world made sense. I am not big into the psychodelic drug scene, I am sure if I were I would rate this at 5 stars though.
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Guild as psuedo-scientific shaman of sorts,
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This review is from: Your Brain Is God (Paperback)
Honestly, I think that Leary was being extremely daring tackling the subject of psychadelics in the manner which he did. Also though, this book runs through a brief history of the beginning of his working with psychadelic experiences in the sixties, and offers an outline for reproducing and guiding such experiences. Not only htat though, but his "summa Theologica" is transmitted in the psycho-philosophical banter on spiritual questions. In my opinion leary has seriously done his part in making spirituality and science one and the same. He has been accused of being overly radical and highly speculative, - even by me - but this is precisely why I respect his work as much as I do. Personally, I do not use psychotropic drugs, but I am indescriminately into Dreams as a medium for psychadelic experiences. In my opinion Leary describes poetically, and precisely, the most efficient method for guiding a session that is psychological in nature, be it psychadelics, journeying, self-analysis, etc. In my opinion the personal and comfortably set setting and atmosphere should be adopted by professional psychological doctors. Of corse, that's just my opinion, what do I know?
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