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LEARY LIBRARY LEARY LIBRARY CHAOS& CYBERCULTURE Your Brain is God Timothy Leary, PhD, Timothy Leary with William Gibson, William Burroughs, Winona Ryder & Others 112 pp • $14.95 978-1-57951-052-7 Timothy Leary’s “cyberpunk manifesto” describes a New Breed that loves technology and uses it How the Harvard-Milbrook psychedelic research moved from the scientific to the religious to revolutionize communication while having fun creating the cyberdelic politics and culture of arena after Leary and Alpert came to understand that the US Constitution does not protect the 21st Century. Leary was a leading figure in cyber culture, much as he was a leading figure in scientific exploration.The brain had replaced the gentials as the forbidden organ that must not be touched or the consciousness revolution of the 1960s. Chaos and Cyber Culture brings together over 100,000 turned on by the owners so the only way in which consciousness-change experiences could be discussed was in terms words of provocative, futuristic writings and cogent conversations in a graphic format with over 100 of philosophic-religious. —Timothy Leary illustrations. 0-157951-1470, 292 pp • $24.95 The Intelligence Agents Timothy Leary, in his own chaotic style, recapitulates evolution from the first organism in which life a collection of memos, articles, pictures, etc. written in “future history” reflecting life on planet earth during Leary’s lifespan. Change Your Brain A work of social, moral, religious and scientific satire, including articles by and about people who Timothy Leary are changing the meaning of freedom all over the world. This is the fifth and final volume of Dr. 112 pp • $12.95 Leary’s ‘Future History Series’ with lots of fun pictures and ideas for your brain! 978-1-57951-017-6 A superbly, creatively paradoxical book. This book doesn’t just set forth, dogmatically and For Timothy Leary, drugs are useful tools to reprogram your brain circuits—while having exclusively, a set of ideas held by the author to be ‘objectively true’, it puts forward a set of ideas a good time in the process. How to Change Your Brain is a compilation of Leary’s earliest which enter into paradoxical (critical) relationships with each other, stimulating the reader to take up work at Harvard on “re-imprinting” your brain and the outrage it provoked in stodgy a critical position towards the book hirself. If intelligence rests on a critical attitude, then this book will increase your intelligence. Philosophy as art and dance. corners of professional and academic psychology. Filled with inside stories and Leary’s 240 pgs • $17.95 • 978-1-57951-148-7 keen observations of hyprocracy which he reveals with his characteristic humorous cynicism. High Priest Timothy Leary, PhD, Foreword by Allen Ginsberg ISBN 978-0914171805 $19.95 Start Your Own Religion Chronicles Timothy Leary’s experiences on 16 early, formative psychedelic trips before LSD was illegal. Timothy Leary The “high priests” include Allen Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Ralph Metzner, Huston Smith, and Preface: Scoop Nisker Frank Baron. Each chapter includes an I Ching reading and a chronicle of a trip, along with marginalia of 978-1-57951-073-2, 240 pp • $14 comments and quotations, and illustrations. You and your friends can do anything that the great religions and empires have done in the name of their Gods. You can choose your God to be smart, compassionate, cute and goofy. Create a cult comprised of Leary is a hero of American consciousness. —Allen Ginsburg your family and friends, then develop a personal mythology and write your own New Testament. Religious, Collector’s Edition signed by Timothy Leary and numbered $100.00 mystical visionary possession states are powerful and wonderful. They open the doors of perception, polish our sensory lenses, and shake up the autonomic nervous system. The Politics Turn On, Tune In, of Ecstasy Drop Out CyberPunks Search for Alternatives Timothy Leary Timothy Leary Foreword Jeffrey CyberFreedom the True to Involuntary Foreword by Tom Robbins, Mishlove, PhD Timothy Leary Aphrodisiac Death 152 pp • $16.95 192 pp • $12.95 Timothy Leary Intro by R.U. Sirius 978-1-57951-084-8 Timothy Leary 222 pp • $16.95 978-1-57951-009-1 124 pp -$12.95 1 pp • $12.95 Change Reality Screens! 978-1-57951-088-6 978-1-57951-031-02 Leary at his best, beckoning with humor 978-1-57951-087-9 Reboot your brain—often! Sex is the Exploration of human and irreverence, visionary of individual No more pious wimpy empowerment, personal responsibility and Our brains are only in operation when they are highest form of consciousness during the “Summer talk about death. Time spiritual awakening. slamming bytes and bits of information back communication. of Love.” Ramifications of and forth—multimedia communication. Brains Imaginaiton governs sexual desire. to talk cheerfully and joke sassily about psychedelic experience. Playboy Timothy Leary—in his own inimitable way— want to hook up with other brains. Includes Explores the anxieties taboos around personal responsibility for managing the interview revealing the sexual power of LSD; an outline of has become the twentieth century’s The Cyberpunk Manifesto by Christian A. sex. The brain is the ultimate organ of dying process. Dying is the most fascinating Kirtchev who calls cyberfreedrom sekers to pleasure—if you know how to use it. the neurological theory that became Leary’s classic eight- grand master of crazy wisdom…. experience in life. Design your own death! . action. Leary says, Think for yourself; qustion Leary explains how. circuit model. —Jeffrey Mishlove authority. Chaos is good. Chaos creates infinite possibiities. RONIN Books-for-Independent-Minds Bookstore RONIN Books-for-Independent-Minds Bookstore <http://www.roninpub.com/Index-store.html> <http://www.roninpub.com/Index-store.html> LEARY LIBRARY Lilly Library The Fugitive Psychedelic Prayers & Other The Quiet Center Center of the Cyclone Philosopher Meditations 978-0-914171-84-3 , 144 pp • $12.95 John C. Lilly, MD John C. Lilly, M.D. Timothy Leary Timothy Leary, PhD, w/ Ralph Metzner, Blends sicence and philisophy to Lilly’s experiences in “far-out spaces” and $12.95 discovering new truths and escape the how such spaces are programmed with 978-1-57951-039-6, 192 pp. Rosemary Woodruff Leary, Michael Horowitz Leary’s only book of poetry. Manual to higher deluge of our frantic world. The result is self-meta-programming. Goes behind the Busted for pot in 1965, Timothy consciousness inspired by Lao Tse’s Tao Te provocative “isolation experience”. This scenes into Lilly’s exploring inner space. Offers a scientific explanation of how the Leary was sentenced to 25 years in Ching (Way of Life). Includes six recently book explores the center of the cyclone prison. He escaped, and thus began an mind operates in the entheogenic state. almost farcical odyssey: the former rediscovered poems, photos and drawings through personal experiences in the $14.95 • 240 pp • 978-1-57951-038-1 West Point student and Harvard cover of the German edition by H.R. Giger and Isolation Tank. professor was now an acid-tripping photograph of Leary in India, and essays by fugitive. In this delightfully irreverent account, Leary describes his time in Algeria and Switzerland, Michael Horowitz, Rosemary Woodruff Leary, The Scientist: Metaphysical Autobiography where he was sheltered by an arms dealer; his exploits with the and Ralph Metzner who was with Leary in India when the book was John C. Lilly, MD, Foreword by Timothy Leary Weathermen and Eldridge Cleaver, who tried to hold him hostage; written. Hardcover Keepsake Edition $20.00 Lilly tells his behind-the-scenes story of his astonishing discoveries—from his early experiments and his capture and return to the U.S. mapping the brains of monkeys and communicating with dolphins to his awesome breakthroughs with consciousness-expanding drugs and isolation tanks. The Politics of Self-Determination A Peeping Tom at the Keyhole of Eternity.