Wednesday, 15. August 2007
Topic: DRUGS - on August 15, 2007 at 12:04:00 PM CEST
Dr. Timothy Leary’s Footprint
There are few individuals who have had the impact on all of humanity that Dr. Timothy Leary exerted. Certainly there are a number of people who have altered our understanding of the material world, who have sparked civil movements, or technological innovations that have rerouted or offset tragedy and the cycles of history. But Leary pulled people into contemplation of their own experience, and redefined what Western Culture thought of as ‘religion’ entirely. He showed that perspective altered experience, and this was a message too volatile for the institutions and the administrations of the sixties and seventies to digest.
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