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Timothy Leary - How to operate

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Timothy Leary,
Genesis P-Orridge
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How to Operate Your Brain, is a 29 minute, guided, electronic
(spoken/musical) meditation. In it, Dr. Leary tries to impart to the
listener essential aspects of his visionary LSD experiences. While it
may have been intended for use with drugs?to provide some of the
positive "set" and "setting" that he saw as essential for a good "trip"?it
stands alone as a profound, guided meditation. In it, you will hear
some of the central, sacred principles of Yoism.

Genesis P-Orridge collaborated extensively with Dr. Timothy Leary

during 1992-93 producing video and audio-scapes for "Lectures" on
"HOW TO OPERATE YOUR BRAIN" as live improvisations, as well
as contributing political and cultural "rants". This in turn led to him
being invited on numerous occasions to deliver his own unique spoken
word revelations at Arts Centres and Universities across the United
States and in Belgium, Germany, Scandanavia, Canada, and Mexico.

Transcript:

This is an experiment in mind formation, in-formation, forming,

controlling, operating your mind and your brain, using digital
techniques to overload, scramble, confuse, unfocus your mind.

The natural state of the brain is chaos. We're dealing with a complexity
of in-formation. The first thing to do is to overwhelm your focused
mind, your linear mind, by overloading signals, digital patterns,
clusters of photons and electrons which produce a pleasant state of
confused chaos. This is the state of the brain when it is ready to be
informed, that is, to be reprogrammed.

The human brain contains one hundred billion neurons, each neuron is
as powerful as a large computer, and each neuron has around ten
thousand connections with other neurons. Within our foreheads there is
a chaos, inside our brains there is a galaxy of information, which is
incomprehensible to our linear minds.
of in-formation. The first thing to do is to overwhelm your focused
mind, your linear mind, by overloading signals, digital patterns,
clusters of photons and electrons which produce a pleasant state of
confused chaos. This is the state of the brain when it is ready to be
informed, that is, to be reprogrammed.

The human brain contains one hundred billion neurons, each neuron is
as powerful as a large computer, and each neuron has around ten
thousand connections with other neurons. Within our foreheads there is
a chaos, inside our brains there is a galaxy of information, which is
incomprehensible to our linear minds.

This contrasts and compares perfectly with the chaos without. We're
living in a universe, which has one hundred billion galaxies, each
galaxy with star systems, planets, a complexity, again, which to our
minds right now is chaotic, incomprehensible.

Chaos is beautiful. Now many times we are afraid because we want

order. We can't deal with the confusion and disorder. We want form.
We want rules. Yes, throughout human history there have been
people?religious leaders, political leaders?who will give you order.
They will give you rules and commandments.

But chaos is basically good. Relax. Surf the waves of chaos and learn
how to redesign your own realities. Sit back. Flow. Open your eyes.
Turn off your minds. Unfocus, and let the waves of chaos roll over
your brain. Float. Drift, Zoom. Design. Create new order, your order,
your style from chaos.

Yes. Yes. Chaos. Yes, yes, chaos . . .

The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question
authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities.
Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate
aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning
how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos.

The religious leaders, the political leaders want to give you orders to
run your life, to determine how you think. The basic goal is to operate
your own mind. Think for yourself.

Around three thousand years ago, a group of human beings in Athens,

Greece, developed a new philosophy, a basic religion of humanity that
is called humanism. Socrates said that the aim of human life is to know
thyself. Create and design your own order from chaos. Socrates did not
give commandments. Socrates did not impose order. Socrates asked
questions. He encouraged his friends to speculate, design, to create, to
interact their own versions of reality. Socrates said the way to perform
philosophy is in small groups, raising questions, learning from each
other, changing, changing your mind, growing together, thinking
together.

The religious leaders said "You can?t say that, Socrates. The gods are
in control. Who are you to say you have a self? How dare you think
you can know? The Gods determine. Sacrifice to the gods; obey the
gods." Socrates said, "No. Look within." For that, they gave Socrates
the hemlock, because he dared to tell people, "Think for yourself.
Question authority.?

To think for yourself, you must learn how to reprogram, reform,

inform your own brain. To do this, to take responsibility for your brain,
it is necessary to question everything that you have been taught, to
question authority, to learn to take the brave step of taking
The religious leaders said "You can?t say that, Socrates. The gods are
in control. Who are you to say you have a self? How dare you think
you can know? The Gods determine. Sacrifice to the gods; obey the
gods." Socrates said, "No. Look within." For that, they gave Socrates
the hemlock, because he dared to tell people, "Think for yourself.
Question authority.?

To think for yourself, you must learn how to reprogram, reform,

inform your own brain. To do this, to take responsibility for your brain,
it is necessary to question everything that you have been taught, to
question authority, to learn to take the brave step of taking
responsibility for operating your brain. For designing, redesigning,
reforming the chaos within.

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening,

terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are or where we are going
in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities?the political, the
religious, the educational authorities?who attempted to comfort us by
giving us order, rules, regulations, informing?forming in our minds?
THEIR view of reality. To think for yourself, you must question
authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-
mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

Think for yourself. Question authority.

Then came Marshall McCluhan, in the 1950's. McCluhan said, in the

Socratic sense, "The medium is the message." The words you use, the
modes of communication you use determine the realities you inhabit.
Most of our lives, most of us live in realities determined by others,
imprinted in our brains by education, by religion, by politics, by the
authorities. McCluhan said, "If you want to change your mind, change
the medium." Change the words you use. Change the mode of
communication. If you change the medium, you change yourself. You
change your society.

In the 1960's, a new mode of communication developed: television.

The kids growing up in the 1950's learned how to tune in, turn on, fine
tune, turn off, select, determine what hits your eyeballs. You control
your eyeballs and your eardrums. You direct, manage the media that
program your brain. McCluhan said, "Who controls the media is
programming your mind and programming your brain."

We are using in this tape the new media of digital, multimedia,

audiographic overload, attempting to create the state of open-
mindedness, pleasant vulnerability in which we will in-form and
imprint the messages of The Sponsor: "Use your head. Learn how to
operate your brain."

To operate your brain you must understand how to use your eyes. "Oh
say, can you see?" Oh say, can't you see what is being done to your
eyes? Who controls your eyeballs, controls your mind, imprints your
brain. Oh say, can?t you see that the messages that hit your eyeballs in
modern television are creating realities, imprinting messages from the
sponsors who are not usually interested in your learning how to design
your own realities.

Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Who controls your screen

controls the programs in your mind. Your eyes are the windows of
your brain. The eyes are extensions of the brain. The eyes are made up
of hundreds of layers of neurons, rods, cones. Your eyeballs deal with
one energy: It's light. Through your eyes come illumination, vision,
perception, enlightenment, illumination. Your eyes are the windows of
your soul. Who controls your eyeballs programs your brain. Learn how
modern television are creating realities, imprinting messages from the
sponsors who are not usually interested in your learning how to design
your own realities.

Warning! Warning! Warning! Warning! Who controls your screen

controls the programs in your mind. Your eyes are the windows of
your brain. The eyes are extensions of the brain. The eyes are made up
of hundreds of layers of neurons, rods, cones. Your eyeballs deal with
one energy: It's light. Through your eyes come illumination, vision,
perception, enlightenment, illumination. Your eyes are the windows of
your soul. Who controls your eyeballs programs your brain. Learn how
to dial, fine tune your eyeballs. Learn how to unfocus your eyes, dilate
your pupils, learn how to open up to illumination and light, and then
refocus and redesign your own inner order, your own designs, your
own language.

In the 60's, we said. "Power to the people." In the 90's, the digital
multimedia 90's, we say, "Power to the pupil."

Illuminate. Enlighten. Envision. Light waves. Sound waves. Light

waves. Open eyes. Open mind. Open your brain. Learn how to send
messages using electrons. Your brain loves light. Who controls your
eyeballs programs your mind.

We are also passing on, in this demonstration, the message of Ralph

Waldo Emerson, the first and probably the greatest American
philosopher who said, "Divinity lies within." Don?t look to the
churches or to the big marble institutions. Your divinity lies within.
You must learn to operate your brain, operate your soul. Learn how to
communicate brain to brain, soul to soul with other people. Your
divinity lies within.

The brain is designed to design realities. If you operate your own brain
skillfully, you can learn to design your own realities, learn how to
communicate in the language of the brain: electrons and photons. We
are doing this now. We are sending messages from our brains, using
the vehicle of electrons and photons, to your eyeballs. As we watch
this screen, our minds are bedazzled, our minds are softened, our
linear, sharp logical thinking is gentled, and we are communicating
brain to brain. We are using the electron, computer circuits, to feed
each other's brains with light.

This is the first paragraph, the first attempt, the first child's primer in
how to communicate using both the orderly left brain and the chaotic,
confusing language of photons and electrons. The brain is a photovore.
Your brain, my brain, our brains live on light. Just as the body needs
air and carbohydrates, our brains are starved for light, for illumination,
for revelation.

Use your head. Learn how to operate your brain. The brain is designed
to design realities.

Marshall McCluhan made the prophecy. He told us that the aim of

evolution was to use media to create what we all want: the global
village, the language, which can be understood by every human being,
by every brain. The basic language of humanity, the language of the
brain, lights, sounds, rhythms, pulsating your bones, moving your
body. We all know this language. We can all sing and dance this
language of electrons, of radio waves, of rhythms.

Now we have digital communication. We can create our fantasies. We

can create our rhythms, design on screen. A new language will
develop, a global language, not based on letters, not based on
Marshall McCluhan made the prophecy. He told us that the aim of
evolution was to use media to create what we all want: the global
village, the language, which can be understood by every human being,
by every brain. The basic language of humanity, the language of the
brain, lights, sounds, rhythms, pulsating your bones, moving your
body. We all know this language. We can all sing and dance this
language of electrons, of radio waves, of rhythms.

Now we have digital communication. We can create our fantasies. We

can create our rhythms, design on screen. A new language will
develop, a global language, not based on letters, not based on
grammars, the language which we all understand, based on clusters of
waves of light and sound. We all understand. We all celebrate. We all
glory in the light, the illumination, the contact, the intersection, the
interaction from around the world, the language of form. We will
create a language of international, global brain linkup. Anyone in any
culture watching this screen will get the general picture. It's one global
village. It's one global human spirit, one global human race. As we link
up through screens, linked by electrons and photons, we will create for
the first time a global humanity, not separated by words or minds or
nationalities or religious biases.

Now listen to The Message from The Sponsor: "There is one, global
human race."

We're just now learning to communicate brain to brain, soul to soul.

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