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Your Brain Is God
Product: Your Brain Is God
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Manufacturer: Ronin Publishing
Book written by: Timothy Leary
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Product Description: Your Brain Is God
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9781579510527
ISBN: 1579510523
Label: Ronin Publishing
Manufacturer: Ronin Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2001-06-09
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Studio: Ronin Publishing
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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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Summary: This book isn't what I thought it would be?
Comment: I bought this book a while ago so I'm not sure what my initial hopes were, but they were dashed immediately (I could tell this book wasn't for me by the start of the 2nd chapter).
Essentially my main problem was that the author assumes you are a LSD user or that you are wishing to dabble in LSD. Because the point of this book is based upon this assumption.
Basically he talks briefly about the reason for setting up his own *religion* and then goes off and talks about the best environment for doing drugs like LSD to reach a state of awareness?
I don't want to do LSD, I wanted to read a book about opening your mind (I knew that Timothy Leary was a LSD icon but by the title of his book I assumed that there would be some substance to the content). Reading the book was a bit pointless for me, it seems strange that to make this realisation of our true oneness and to try to re-connect with our infinite consciousness we would require the help of a CIA funded drug - this type of thinking is beyond me?
I can't stand how certain people from the 60's seem to think they are some kind of revolutionary icon by taking LSD and pronouncing how good and evolutionary the drug is and how it will open peoples minds to the illusion of the matrix (life is but a mere hologram our brains interpret).
Just remember that the CIA (Central Intelligent Agency) were importing and testing the effects of LSD at the start of the 50's with the intent on releasing it as a mass produced product on the youth of America! So no you are not revolutionary, you were just a guinea pig for the CIA, and they suckered you good.
Besides this ignorance from the author of the true sources behind the LSD drug and its importation into America the book is ok - its readable for a while. Not really a book for me I guess.
My main gripe is the pompous ignorant attitude towards LSD and the way the author does nothing but talk about the best environment to take the drug. This book took me a couple of hours to read and did nothing for me.
If you want an eye opening book then read "...and the truth shall set you free" - by David Icke (it is his most accessible book for newbies to his work).
I'd advise people who do not take drugs to stay away from this book as it wont effect your life at all, and for those who do take drugs, you shouldn't need a book (even of this small size) to tell you how best to take drugs and the environment you do it in, this should be common knowledge that if you take drugs at a fair ground then chances are you are going to have a bad trip and if you take drugs in the tranquility of nature in a field then you are probably going to have a better experience and more spiritual time.
For me the book was rubbish.
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Summary: Acid flash back in the pan...
Comment: ...the brain pan, that is. Tee hee. (Giggling is a form of deep wisdom and ecstatic worship.)
As you well know, your brain is the pan of God. Here are the facts, folks:
LSD sends the entire skin of its user all the way to the interior, so that a very dense Chakra can form--that at least is the traditional theory of hallucinogenics. We do this inner-skin formation in order to be similar to me at my highest, which will make you understand an overridingly important lesson, namely that these are, in fact, the kind of hallucinogenics that can make some arrangement for what one might consider a precise gallon of jade, thereby causing us to spend our lives in trying to achieve at least that much wisdom.
Yogis have performed the proper lifelong experiments to help you achieve this wisdom with or without hallucinogenic drugs. Timothy was such a yogi and has left a testament to show you how your kundalini energies do NOT have a choice in this matter: You will definitely need the drugs to get there. My friend and I once compared the LSD experience to the nuclear bomb, because it is so mind-blowing. Tee hee. Don't worry: The medical authorities can always treat you after you have been analyzed uncomprehensively and compared as far as possible to a merry form of more massive murders. LSD is something to regard with great respect, because it is the on-ramp to the Road of the Gods, and as such, it has value. It is, as one yogi elegantly put it, the red-eye flight into the night of light, which is nothing more than the Godhead of your own head. Tee hee.
Therefore, I cannot necessarily advise against this "safer" procedure. But, unlike some guidance-givers, I do not protect myself with the advantages derived from modern medicine, even though you might think me negligent for not doing so. If you feel you absolutely must employ them in order to feel that you are reaching your maximum comfort potential, just remember that these experimental doctrines are NOT the tool of reality, for reality does not exist. Very well, then, I recommend this training to the respectful re-searcher as a special tool. And listen, young re-searchers: You can occupy yourselves with these fascinating doctrines, which are currently incorrect. Other goals will hide the dense theories of science in order to show that the road you have entered leads to a meeting with the coefficient of their eyes. In light of this, I have a closely affectionate quotation for you from the great Leadbeater: "We must be aware that we are divided into mortal errors that want to subsume us." At a glance we will see that LSD gives us, as far as possible, enough concrete material for the great Leadbeater to use. And if you are as attentive as Leadbeater, you will receive an image that looks like the cells inside your own godlike brain and see the very atoms at their limits, dancing merrily through the synapses without interruption. It is at this point that you immediately say to them that you see a god, and the god is you. With that, you make it possible for the god in your mouth to perform maintenance on you as he learns just how much his subjects are unable to carry out any kind of physical peace. The feeling of volume will be included inside you, equal to one incredibly felt experience--an experience you will take with you into infinity. That happens to be a very beautiful thought. So, as a generous gesture, I would like to conclude this review with an equally beautiful quotation by the great Aleister Crowley, but I don't remember it and it doesn't matter anyway.
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Summary: Dissapointed And Offended!
Comment: Timothy Leary was and remains a very controversial icon of the counterculture movement. Though his research involved the use of widely stigmatized psychedelic substances, his legacy marked the progressive movement towards realizing the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. I genuinely admire his philisophical inquiries and beliefs however was greatly disapointed with this book. I FEEL AS THOUGH THIS BOOK WHOLLY MISREPRESENTS TIMOTHY LEARY AND IN FACT CONDESCENDS HIS WORK. THE BOOK IS LITTERED WITH GRAMMATICAL ERRORS, PUNCTUATION ERRORS, MANY SPELLING ERRORS, AND FRANKLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE JARGON. I MUST SAY THAT I WAS EXTREMELY DISSATISIFED WITH THIS PURCHASE TO THE EXTENT THAT I CONTACTED RONIN PUBLISHING, INC. OVER IN OAKLAND CALIFORNIA BY PHONE AND REQUESTED THE NAME OF WITH WHOM I WAS SPEAKING. When the voice on the line asked what I wanted I replied that I had purchsed "Your Brain is God" and that I wished to make a complaint because of how poorly edited the book was. THE REPLY WAS DISTINCTLY, "Go Shove Yourself Up Your ***!" and I was hung up on. I was extremely offended and do not consider Ronin an quality publisher. Nor do I recommend this book.
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Summary: What Your Brain Is and What Your Brain Ain't
Comment: The title of this book is rather misleading. I do not feel that the brain is God as much as it is an inlet as well as an outlet to all that there is in God. Just like a radio cannot play music without a transmitter a brain cannot think without the Mind. The brain and the Mind are not the same things. If the brain could think, it would keep on thinking after death, but the brain is merely an instrument the Mind uses.
The use of psychedelics can give one a glimpse into the Higher realms of consciousness. They can give one a peek to the depths of the soul but they cannot ultimately do the spiritual work that is necessary in evolving those glimpses and those peeks into full blown experiences. Alan Watts called pyschedelic drugs a microscope that one uses to see things that one hasn't seen before, but after one uses the microscope then he/she needs to work on what was seen and put away the instrument that allowed one to see them in the first place. This is a very important metaphor and should not be dismissed casually.
I believe that EVERYTHING can be used for a better life but we must be open to the "better" in the first place. There is NO MAGIC BULLET that will do this. There is no drug, no experience, no physical situation or circumstance that will ultimately tie up all loose ends and make everything wonderful and beautiful only the consciousness and the awareness of the individual can decide that.
I love Mr. Leary. I miss him. I'm sorry that his physical presence is no longer here. He was truly an individual and the world needs more people who not only stand on the edge, but sometimes go over the edge in order to prove that it's not the unknown we're to be afraid of, but in fact, it's the known.
Mr. Leary's The Politics of Ecstasy is a much better book. Even if you don't agree that psychedelics can give you a glimpse into a brighter, more promising life, Leary's enthusiam and joy for the subject will keep you greatly entertained.
May you prosper abundantly on your Spiritual quest for Truth and enlightenment.
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Summary: Philosophy through confrontation with oneself...
Comment: As substance induced psychedelia became almost a sweeping religion in the 60s certain great minds emerged that tried to conceptualise the goings on of that era and form them into new philosophies made of an amalgam of Eastern teachings, ancient western cosmotheories and modern realisations.
Among the many in that effort was T.Leary. Most of his books are known to the lay public as nothing more than acid-promotion but the truth is that they are excellent philosophical endeavours of the trippiest kind.
"Your brain is god" is a primary example of that. Allthough a mere 100 pages it summarises emphatically the vision those 60s luminaries had for ourselves. To realise that we are, or can be, gods. A much misunderstood concept to be sure, but one that has enormous merit in it not in an anthropocentric sense but more from a "know thyself" point of view.
Knowing thyself is of course no simple matter (if it were we wouldnt be on the verge of self-extinction). There have been many approaches and many philosophies over the eons that have tried to accomplish just that with various degrees of success. Leary came to that "field" through the confrontation with one's one brain that certain substances can provoke. His realisations might not sound like new discoveries to those few that are well philosophy-broken but his style and his way of formulating his beliefs are almost inimitable.
There's more to be taken from this book of Leary's than from many other bulky tomes that well known philosophers have written. Because, make no mistake here, he was unquestionably a philosopher and a darn good one. Leary has a way of condensing things in a modern 20th century type of way that will intrigue even the more focus-challenged out there.
My favorite quote from this book, is one that you can write a whole new book about in itself:
"...the smarter you become the smarter your world becomes".
A great "lil" book for those that are never content with the number of doors opened in their minds.
One objection that some might have is the later chapters of the book when Leary is basically giving out methodology on the use of acid. This is the time he comes from and this is the path he used. This though, does in no way mean that he promotes it as an absolute path. Life isnt one street. It would anyway be totally hypocritical of him to omit those chapters when he was known as the acid-guru. You should simply concentrate on taking out what's valuable for you, whatever that might be. And there's a lot of that here.
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