Dr Timothy Leary was here last week, lecturing at UC Berkeley. The news arrived that his appeal had been rejected by the New Orleans court and he will have to go back to jail again. Dr Leary didn’t let anybody know about this (I found out from the only person in the room when the news came on the phone); Tim continued to radiate humor, cheer, and optimism. Arlen had a conversation with Tim, in which she expressed gratitude for the example he had given us during the last three years of his confinement. “You convinced us that it is possible to transcend suffering,” she said, “and that helped us more than anything else in the first weeks after Luna’s death.” Tim said, “That’s the whole point of all my work on brain change!” He hugged her excitedly. “That’s it! You’ve got it! Positive energy is as real as gravity. I’ve felt it.” Two hours later, at the door, Tim was stopped by one of our guests with a final question before he left. “What do you do, Dr. Leary, when somebody keeps giving you negative energy?” Tim grinned that special grin of his that so annoys all his critics. “Come back with all the positive energy you have,” he said. And then he dashed off to the car, to the airport, to the next lecture… and to God-knows-what fate in the fourteenth year of his struggle with his legal system. And so I learned the final secret of the Illuminati.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:51:18 +0000
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