tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post453395514633338090..comments2024-03-05T15:10:07.370-06:00Comments on A Building Roam: On the Lofty Potential of the Human BrainPQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-85346156730181021852013-03-27T02:37:49.639-05:002013-03-27T02:37:49.639-05:00The Psychedelic Salon is a great resource. I may ...The Psychedelic Salon is a great resource. I may have learned more from those McKenna, Leary, and RAW lectures than I did during my 4 years of university.BrentQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13348133246050450327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-21829565007540478522013-03-26T18:59:52.555-05:002013-03-26T18:59:52.555-05:00Great post! Thanks for mentioning my blog.
Both ...Great post! Thanks for mentioning my blog.<br /><br />Both Leary and Fuller inspire me a great deal.Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-52589991943586425442013-03-26T15:26:07.878-05:002013-03-26T15:26:07.878-05:00That's good to know, and I will try and approa...That's good to know, and I will try and approach him with a more open mind. <br /><br />I'm finding the global poverty class fascinating and partly because it challenges many assumptions. For one thing, it does not preach against overpopulation, and wonders if Malthus may be wrong. It's partly for a reason related to this post, which is that more brains mean more random possibilities for innovation.<br /><br />Paul is great, and perhaps has gotten in trouble a bit for his antic spirit. He has just come out with a book about the days of Alan Chadwick's time at UCSC, which you may find interesting now that you know the place, called There is a Garden in the Mind, which you can see a bit about <a href="http://ecotopia.org/dr-paul-lee-talk-about-his-book-there-is-a-garden-in-the-mind/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I haven't read it yet, but of course I am very familiar with its stories.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-58874940358782611772013-03-26T14:56:09.180-05:002013-03-26T14:56:09.180-05:00"Meanwhile, I wonder what Leary thinks an ord..."Meanwhile, I wonder what Leary thinks an ordinary Westerner with an ordinary amount of leisure should or could be doing with our brains."<br /><br />I think you're doing exactly what he would urge us to do: educate yourself through the miraculous extension of our nervous system that is the internet and continually increase your intelligence. <br /><br />The poverty and starvation of so many humans always makes me think of Buckminster Fuller's frequent assertion that there are more than enough resources in the world to feed and clothe everybody, it's bureaucracy and greed that gets in the way. <br /><br />It's alarming that there is absolutely no ceiling for how rich someone could be, no limits imposed on how much wealth and opulence you can acquire, and yet there is a very real natural limit to how poor you can be (barely scraping enough crumbs together to keep your body operating).<br /><br />I enjoyed the Paul Lee piece, he sounds like a funny guy.<br /><br />Having gone on a binge of absorbing Leary lectures/interviews/videos/articles the last month or so, I'll have a lot more to say about him in a forthcoming post, but for now I'll mention that the whole early-60s Harvard LSD situation is one of the things I actually find least interesting about him, despite that being where his fame and notoriety sprung. Amid the four decades of material, it's the late 70s to early 90s Leary that I find has the most interesting stuff to say. Biography-wise, it's definitely the early to mid-70s Leary that has the most intriguing storyline ("B-movie adventures" as he self-deprecatingly described those years). Overall, though, I'm finding him to be one of the most incredible people of the 20th century, endlessly fascinating and inspiring. PQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-28310133255085923432013-03-26T13:22:20.980-05:002013-03-26T13:22:20.980-05:00It will probably take me awhile to get to those Be...It will probably take me awhile to get to those Beautiful Minds videos, but I'll definitely keep them in mind.<br /><br />I seem to be coming at this from the other end of the spectrum, as I'm currently taking an online course on world poverty and being made very aware of the fact of how many brains, even as we speak are almost totally engaged in survival decisions by necessity. And you have to wonder what all those brains could do if dire necessity eased up for them even a little. Meanwhile, I wonder what Leary thinks an ordinary Westerner with an ordinary amount of leisure should or could be doing with our brains. <br /><br />I don't know if this has come up before, but my friend and a leader of a discussion group I go to here, Paul Lee, was in the Harvard Psychedelic group with Leary. A book came out a couple of years ago here, and was written up <a href="http://www.metrosantacruz.com/metro-santa-cruz/01.20.10/a&e-1003.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> with a photo of the group. Paul Lee is the guy in the hat.<br /><br />The height of psychedelia was just a little before my time, and I think it's aftermath always left me a little skeptical of it. There is a self-indulgent aspect to the drug trip that has made it suspect for me. I believe the early Harvard experiments were pretty pure, but that they devolved. Of course, a lot else was going on at that time too that may have contributed to that. seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-11727371347539154742013-03-26T10:19:05.481-05:002013-03-26T10:19:05.481-05:00Been listening to the Psychedelic Salon podcast wh...Been listening to the Psychedelic Salon podcast which has dozens of Leary lectures/interviews:<br />http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?cat=91<br /><br />Also, the Timothy Leary Archives is a great source:<br />http://archive.org/details/Tim_Leary_ArchivePQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1157342843002612388.post-51575235439884615562013-03-26T08:59:20.323-05:002013-03-26T08:59:20.323-05:00I'm pleased that the "Masks of the Illumi...I'm pleased that the "Masks of the Illuminati" reading group helped inspire such an interesting blog post. Where do you get the Tim Leary lectures you have been listening to?Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.com