Timothy Leary, Cary Grant, and Me

A L O H A !

They warned us: 

we would never "be the same."

You might say that of living itself.

So, sensing their lies

and limits

we sailed psychedelic seas,

waves of sense, of light,

of meaning.

We kissed far shores

of reality.

Even today

Weird juxtapositions,

 conjunctions of sights

recall those voyages.

You may call it 

"Flashback"

I call it grace -

The world shows its faces

it's graces in smears of light 

and love.

It  can all be a bit much

for good old Normal Mind!

Take the poor dear by the hand,

patting same comfortingly.

It all WILL be

O. K.

Horizon Gazing 

is a capitol cure 

to reassure.

The Sky is a sigh 
of confidence,

and eternal love

" Learning how 

to operate a soul

 figures to take time. "

              Timothy Leary

" My intention in taking LSD 
was to make myself happy. 
A man would be a fool 
to take something that 
didn't make him happy. 

We deceived ourselves by calling it therapy,
but we were truly interested in 
how this chemical could help humanity. "
                                                Cary Grant

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Gosh I was young

but I was there:

Irvine Auditorium
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at the Univ. of Pennsylvania

1970 when Timothy Leary

spoke to 2,500

about the new frontiers

of mental exploration

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He thought that 

the US President,

Congress,

educational leaders,

all needed to know

the Psychedelic experience

in order for society,

for Humanity,

to reach the next

beckoning evolution.

At the after event,

I took my I Ching
Link

from my backpack

and cast a reading for 

the good doctor.

"You are going to jail."

The oracle was pretty clear.

I felt obligated, as teens are,

to inform him.

The president never

explored LSD

(to the best of my knowledge)

but Timothy Leary DID

spend lots of time in jail.

Just saying. . . .

Let Your Freak Flag Fly!

&

Thank YOU

for tripping here!

Your Pal,

                                  cloudia

" Cary Grant was the first mainstream celebrity to espouse the virtues of psychedelic drugs. Grant was one of the biggest stars Hollywood had to offer when he jumped headlong into . . . endorsement of subconscious exploration, arguably, created more interest in LSD than Dr. Timothy Leary. . . the fantasy of countless Midwestern women. He convinced wholesome movie starlets like Esther Williams and Dyan Cannon to blow their minds. When Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping interviewed him, Cary Grant was telling happy homemakers that LSD was the greatest thing in the world. "

He tripped on LSD more than 100 times, 

prescribed by his psychiatrist.

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