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Visions of the Erotic Life - Timothy Leary Lectures 1969  
     
 

Recorded Lecture and Verbatim Transcript
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Disc 1
Track 1 Introduction:  The biochemistry of consciousness exploration
Track 2 Harmonizing psychedelic energies/tantric worship and the psychedelic marriage
Track 3 The over-conditioned cultural “down trip”—illness as a virtue
Track 4 Getting higher, with the “up trip”-turn on or turn off the body
Track 5 Atavistic and tantric models contrasted
Track 6 Homosexual aspects of the avatar presence
Track 7 Marriage relationships, levels of consciousness and the the tantric couple

Disc 2
Track 1 Understanding the soul and ancient rhythms
Track 2 Astrological affinities to the psychedelic lifestyle
Track 3 Eldridge Cleaver’s poem revealing 85 levels of consciousness
Track 4 Introduction to audience interaction
Track 5 Warning about mixing grass and acid
Track 6  Deconditioning sexuality from love
Track 7 Loving the one you’re with:  liberated sex, threesomes, onesomes
Track 8  “I don’t believe in money, dope oughta be for free”
Track 9  “We want to know how to live divine love”

Disc 3
Track 1 A psychedelic experience disclaimer: “some will be turned on, others turned off”
Track 2 Turning off and on “. . . it all has to do with time. . .”
Track 3 The two ways to drop out:  the male/ashram or female/tribal communities
Track 4 Stephanie removes her clothes on stage and challenges Leary
Track 5 The variance in hedonic levels and communication issues
Track 6 The “Dropped Out Life”- moving to the country, buying land
Track 7 Diversity in the ashram and the tribe contrasted
Track 8 Avoiding community friction with dope: staging festivals that “blow minds”
Track 9 The tribal model, personal freedom and interpersonal conflict

Disc 4
Track 1 The Tribal community and its children
Track 2 Hedonic uses of ritual and erotization
Track 3 Starting the “ Circus” Sargeant Sunshine speaks
Track 4 Sexual freedom, jealousy and fidelity in the psychedelic marriage
Track 5 Audience interaction:  getting married, education of children
Track 6 Hedonic levels and reading habits
Track 7 Leary’s gender biases questioned
Track 8  Polyamorous experiments and home births
Track 9 Summing up, making acid in the woods, drug purity, and time travel

 

 

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