Read from the bottom up. Every infant begins at “The Newborn”; every adult arrives at least at “Centralized Socialism” (although the Control Center or major input may be back at “The Toddler” or “The Fighting Child” or in any slot). So-called geniuses, mystics or weird people with wild (psionic) talents are post-larval and may reach any slot from “Centralized Socialism” to “Cosmic Fusion.”
“Some people know you only through that 60s
slogan, `Turn on, tune in, drop out.’ I think a
lot of people don’t really understand what you
meant by dropping out.” “Everybody understood.
Just look at the source.” “All right, here’s
words. Fifteen years ago at a futurist conference
you called yourself a Neo-Technological Pagan.
What did you mean by that?” “Neo has all the
connotations of the futurist stuff that’s coming
along. Technological denotes using machines,
using electricity or light to create reality.
There are two kinds of technology. The
machine–diesel, oil, metal, industrial
technology. And then the Neo-Technology, which
uses light. Electricity. Photons. Electrons.
Pagan is great. I love the word. Pagan is basically
humanist. I grew up in a Catholic zone, and pagan
was the worst thing you could say. Of course, I’d
never met a pagan in Springfield, Massachusetts,
going to a Catholic school. `Where do these pagans
hang out? I wanna be one.’” “Was there any
specific thing that made you turn from
Catholicism?” “Yeah, Paul, there was a period, I
know exactly what it was, I was 15 or 16, I was
being sexually molested in my high school and
actually totally seduced by a wonderful sexy girl,
much more experienced than I. And, whew! She
opened it up! The great mystery of sex. Wow! At
that time I was going routinely to confession on
Saturday afternoon. But I had a date with Rosemary
that night. Sitting there in the dark church. Then
you go in and say, `Bless me, father, for I have
sinned.’ Absolutely, totally hypocritical! They
want you to confess and repent while I have every
intention in the world of being seduced by this
girl tonight.”
“Are you any closer to understanding the mystery, or
further from it?” “Well, Paul, I watch words now.
It’s an obsession. I learned it from Marshall
McLuhan, of course. A terrible vice. Had it for
years, but not actually telling people about it. I
watch the words that people use. The medium is the
message, you recall. The brain creates the reality
she wants. When we see the prisms of the words
that come through, we can understand. Do I
understand the mystery?” “I guess the ultimate
mystery is inconceivable by definition. But have
you come any closer to understanding it?”
“Understand? Stand under! I’m overstood. I’m
understood.” “The older I get, the deeper the
mystery is.” “The faster.” “Let’s get to a
specific mystery. The mystery of you. Because
everybody sees you through their own perceptions.
How do you think you have been most understood?”
“Well, Paul, everyone gets the Timothy Leary they
deserve. Everyone has their point of view. And
everyone’s point of view is absolutely valid for
them. To track me, you have to keep moving the
camera, or you’ll have just one tunnel point of
view. Sermonizing there. Don’t impale yourself on
one point of view.”
By Paul Krassner
The first rule of every law-and-order system is to trivialize-daemonize the dangerous concepts of Self, Individual Aims, and Personal Knowledge. Thinking for Your Selves is heretical, treasonous, blasphemous. Only devils and Satans do it. Creative thinking, committed out loud, becomes a capital crime. It was Three Strikes and You’re Out for several hundred thousand Protestant dissenters during the Inquisitions of the Roman papacy-not to forget the witch-burnings performed by the Protestants when they took charge of the Chaos-control department.
You cannot stay “turned-on” all the time. You cannot stay any place all the time. That’s a law of evolution. After the revelation it is necessary to drop-back-in, return to the fake-prop TV-studio and initiate small changes which reflect the glory and the meaning of the “turn-on”. You change the way you move, the way you dress, and you change your corner of the TV-studio society! You begin to look like a happy saint! Your home slowly becomes a shrine. Slowly, gently, you start seed transformations around you. Psychedelic art. Psychedelic style. Psychedelic music. Psychedelic dance.
- Timothy Leary (1920-1996) Start Your Own Religion – “How to Tune In”
Aleister Crowley said: “There are three ways to increase your intelligence:
1. Continually expand the scope, source, intensity of the information you receive.
2. Constantly revise your reality maps, and seek new metaphors about the future to understand what’s happening in the present.
3. Develop external networks for increasing intelligence. In particular, spend all your time with people as smart or smarter than you. We assume that you are the Intelligent Agent from your gene-pool, so you will seek Intelligence Agents from other gene-pools who will stimulate you to get smarter.”
Paul2eD: How did I wind up with Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill on my iPod & her Walking the Witch on my laptop; both playing at the same time? WTF?
BobDobbs_: @Paul2eD My friend made this video: The Black and White Stripes 2 0 http://bit.ly/4Avvbz
R_A_W: Greg Archer: ‘The Vampire’s Assistant’ and 10 other reasons why we really dig vampires in 2009 http://bit.ly/G3nsq
Paul2eD: @BobDobbs_ @R_A_W The two of you aren’t helping.
LaoTzu: Something cloudy and unclear / Before existence and non-existence, / Before heaven and earth / I do not know its name / So I call it TAO
BobDobbs: Hello Kitty “Anatomy” series http://bit.ly/HorMK
DrLeary: @Paul2eD Be cool. Don’t Panic. Chaos is good. Chaos creates infinite possibilities.
Bill Maher: Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Because It Will Make Rush Limbaugh “Explode” (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/w3moO
Henry Miller: I am a man who pisses largely and frequently. This, they say, is a sign of great mental activity.
Steve Antczak: Moses parted the Red Sea, Oppenheimer split the atom, but “Bob” cut the crap.
