| | | style="padding:15px;" |''‘Your role is quite simple. Become a cheerleader for evolution. That’s what I did and [[T. H. Huxley|my grandfather]] before me. These brain-drugs, mass-produced in the laboratories, will bring about vast changes in [[society]]. This will happen with or without you or me. All we can do is spread the word. The obstacle to this evolution, Timothy, is the [[Bible]].’'' | | | style="padding:15px;" |''‘Your role is quite simple. Become a cheerleader for evolution. That’s what I did and [[T. H. Huxley|my grandfather]] before me. These brain-drugs, mass-produced in the laboratories, will bring about vast changes in [[society]]. This will happen with or without you or me. All we can do is spread the word. The obstacle to this evolution, Timothy, is the [[Bible]].’'' |
| − | <div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[Aldous Huxley]] to Timothy Leary according to latter one's autobiographical account<ref>{{cite web |title=Timothy Leary 1920-1996 |author=Ado Krige |date= 29 Aug 2014 |publisher=WordPress |accessdate=13 Sep 2018 |url=http://www.hr7.co.za/2014/08/29/timothy-leary-1920-1996/|quote=Here is an extract of a conversation between Huxley and Leary: After he heavily induced himself with psilocybin, Huxley told Leary in a chilling conversation: ... The late British psychiatrist William Sargant wrote, “Aldous Huxley, in his writings and in talking to me personally, insisted that mescaline had taken him into the presence of God.” Leary declared, “I am a revolutionary, and the faster this system [the culture and the Christian ideals upon which it was built] goes down the happier I’ll be. }}</ref><ref name="Matthews2008">{{cite web |title=FRANKFURTSKÁ ŠKOLA A JEJÍ IDEOVÍ SOUDRUZI (Frankfurt school and its ideological comrades) |author=Timothy Matthews |translator=Mikuláš Spurný |url=http://www.tedeum.cz/4_2014/frankfurtskola_0414.htm |publisher=Te Deum (originally: The Wanderer) |date=11 Nov 2008 (originally)|language=Czech |quote=Také dr. Timothy Leary, který bádal a popularizoval halucinogenní drogy, nám dává nahlédnout do myšlení frankfurtské školy. Ve své knize Záblesky paměti uvádí svůj rozhovor s Aldousem Huxleyem, který řekl: „Až budou tyto drogy působící na mozek vyráběny ve velkém v laboratořích, přivodí hluboké změny ve společnosti. K tomu dojde v každém případě, ať s naší účastí, nebo bez nás. Všechno, co můžeme dělat, je šířit slovo. Hlavní překážkou v tomto vývoji, Timothy, je bible.“ Leary pak pokračuje: „Střetli jsme se zde s onou židovsko-křesťanskou oddaností jedinému Bohu, jednomu pravému náboženství a pouze jedné realitě, která je prokletím Evropy po celá staletí a Ameriky pak ode dne jejího vzniku. Drogy otevírající mysl mnohočetným realitám nevyhnutelně vedou k polyteistickému náhledu na universum. Cítili jsme, že nadešel čas pro nové humanistické náboženství založené na rozumném a tolerantním pluralismu a na vědou podloženém pohanství.“ |accessdate=13 Sep 2018}}</ref><ref name="Flashbacks">{{cite book |title=Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era : an Autobiography |author=Timothy Leary |publisher=Putnam |year=1990 |pages=44, 109 |isbn=978-08747-78700 |url=http://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=4fQMAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=obstacle |quote=we had run up against the Judeo-Christian commitment to one God, one religion, one reality, that has cursed Europe for centuries and America since our founding days. Drugs that open the mind to multiple realities inevitably lead to a polytheistic view of the universe. We sensed that the time for a new humanist religion based on intelligence, good-natured pluralism and scientific paganism has arrived.}}</ref> | + | <div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[Aldous Huxley]] to Timothy Leary according to latter one's autobiographical account<ref>{{cite web |title=Timothy Leary 1920-1996 |author=Ado Krige |date= 29 Aug 2014 |publisher=WordPress |accessdate=13 Sep 2018 |url=http://www.hr7.co.za/2014/08/29/timothy-leary-1920-1996/|quote=Here is an extract of a conversation between Huxley and Leary: After he heavily induced himself with psilocybin, Huxley told Leary in a chilling conversation: ... The late British psychiatrist William Sargant wrote, “Aldous Huxley, in his writings and in talking to me personally, insisted that mescaline had taken him into the presence of God.” Leary declared, “I am a revolutionary, and the faster this system [the culture and the Christian ideals upon which it was built] goes down the happier I’ll be. }}</ref><ref name="Matthews2008">{{cite web |title=FRANKFURTSKÁ ŠKOLA A JEJÍ IDEOVÍ SOUDRUZI (Frankfurt school and its ideological comrades) |author=Timothy Matthews |translator=Mikuláš Spurný |url=http://www.tedeum.cz/4_2014/frankfurtskola_0414.htm |publisher=Te Deum (originally: The Wanderer) |date=11 Nov 2008 (originally)|language=Czech |quote=Také dr. Timothy Leary, který bádal a popularizoval halucinogenní drogy, nám dává nahlédnout do myšlení frankfurtské školy. Ve své knize Záblesky paměti uvádí svůj rozhovor s Aldousem Huxleyem, který řekl: „Až budou tyto drogy působící na mozek vyráběny ve velkém v laboratořích, přivodí hluboké změny ve společnosti. K tomu dojde v každém případě, ať s naší účastí, nebo bez nás. Všechno, co můžeme dělat, je šířit slovo. Hlavní překážkou v tomto vývoji, Timothy, je bible.“ Leary pak pokračuje: „Střetli jsme se zde s onou židovsko-křesťanskou oddaností jedinému Bohu, jednomu pravému náboženství a pouze jedné realitě, která je prokletím Evropy po celá staletí a Ameriky pak ode dne jejího vzniku. Drogy otevírající mysl mnohočetným realitám nevyhnutelně vedou k polyteistickému náhledu na universum. Cítili jsme, že nadešel čas pro nové humanistické náboženství založené na rozumném a tolerantním pluralismu a na vědou podloženém pohanství.“ |accessdate=13 Sep 2018}}</ref><ref name="Flashbacks">{{cite book |title=Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era : an Autobiography |author=Timothy Leary |publisher=Putnam |year=1990 |pages=44, 109 |isbn=978-08747-78700 |url=https://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=4fQMAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=obstacle |quote=we had run up against the Judeo-Christian commitment to one God, one religion, one reality, that has cursed Europe for centuries and America since our founding days. Drugs that open the mind to multiple realities inevitably lead to a polytheistic view of the universe. We sensed that the time for a new humanist religion based on intelligence, good-natured pluralism and scientific paganism has arrived.}}</ref> |
| | | style="padding:15px;" |''‘[W]e had run up against the [[Judeo-Christian]] commitment to one [[God]], one [[religion]], one reality, that has cursed [[Europe]] for centuries and [[America]] since our [[founding fathers|founding]] days. Drugs that open the mind to multiple realities inevitably lead to a [[polytheistic]] view of the [[universe]]. We sensed that the time for a new [[humanist]] religion based on intelligence, good-natured [[pluralism]] and [[scientific]] [[paganism]] has arrived.’'' | | | style="padding:15px;" |''‘[W]e had run up against the [[Judeo-Christian]] commitment to one [[God]], one [[religion]], one reality, that has cursed [[Europe]] for centuries and [[America]] since our [[founding fathers|founding]] days. Drugs that open the mind to multiple realities inevitably lead to a [[polytheistic]] view of the [[universe]]. We sensed that the time for a new [[humanist]] religion based on intelligence, good-natured [[pluralism]] and [[scientific]] [[paganism]] has arrived.’'' |