Yes, it is a Leary book. But it's also a really fucked up philosophy. interested? show me show me and ill tellll you alllll about it
Hmm.. I've yet to read this, but perhaps I should. I've not read any of Leary's work as of yet. However, the title certainly gets me thinking about how we, with our puny human brains (earthlings, pft!), have to invent other worlds (heaven/hell/nirvana/whatever) in order to give our lives a sense of meaning and direction. Well, I won't go off on that subject... if I did, I'd be here for hours.
by fucked up philosophy, do u mean its a bad philosophy or just kinda out there? Personally, the statement "your brain is god" makes a lot of sense since it is your brain which is responsible for every color you see or sound you here, and therefore responsible for your entire concept of reality. sounds like god to me. i mean, in order to believe in god, it is your brain which must believe it and when a person has a deeply, truly religious experience, it is still mediated and experienced by the brain. and science is proving more and more that the brain has a built in capacity for religious experience, or a sense of ego loss, being "one" with the universe etc. - this doesn't mean that all religious claims are bullshit, only that in the past, organized religions have focused the attention on an external authority. But if you look at the origins of any major religion (christ, buddha...) and past the dogma, they were trying to communicate what they had experienced in thier own mind. They were trying to show that happiness does not lie in external objects, but from within - that the human must not find god, but rather realize that he/she already is god. if life is what we are trying to understand in our search for god, then we have forgotten that we are already it. we are living - we are the essence of life. maybe a further definition (also by Leary) would be that DNA is god, since it is the structure responsible for directing the construction of your body AND brain. to do this is so incredibly complex, that our modern science has yet to come close in technology to creating something as intricate as a human, let alone the living element of consciousness... and all of this from a microscopic molecule shaped like a double helix. yeah.... leary's cool shit man.
