' Timothy Leary... Poem by Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr

It was 1967...students in college-
following directives from their teacher.
The sky shook, the earth stood still,
Climate change or Nasa's launch?

Perhaps it was just an overdose
of Timothy Leary's majique.
No! No! , that wasn't how it was, he'd say,
if he were here today.

It was rainbows, prisms, spiral lamp-posts,
the edge of tomorrow in time for all hosts,
of Orbs and celestial Czars of the Mind
in cube or blotter it'll take you through time,

on a journey of hours through tunnels and towers,
teasing all senses that capture
and when you woke...you'd want to sojourn again.
The problem being...many never woke.



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''My advice to people today is as follows:
If you take the game of life seriously,
If you take your nervous system seriously,
If you take your sense organs seriously, I
f you take the energy process seriously,
You must turn on, tune in, and drop out''.

Timothy Leary/Doctor & Professor
of Clinical Psychology, USC, Cal. Berkley

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''And they gave this man a license to practice no less''!
Frank J. Ryan, Jr.