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Visions of the Erotic Life - Timothy Leary Lectures 1969  
     
 

Understanding the psychedelic marriage

Leary refers to the energy-sharing male-female relationship interchangeably as a psychedelic marriage, a spiritual marriage, a neurological marriage, or a tantric marriage.

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Sound bite:  Disc 1 of 4, Track 7, 00:00-00:22

The psychedelic marriage is the attempt to reach union at all levels of consciousness; to work out harmonies of increasing energy intensities.

Sound bite:  Disc 1 of 4 Track 7 6:41-6:59

And of course when you’re in the presence of such a couple, if you’re alert to these hedonic matters, it’s a very powerful experience, because you are literally dealing with a double merged entity which all biochemistry tells us is more than the addition of its contingent parts.

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