Tim Leary and friends: How to operate your brain
This is an experiment
of mind formation
information
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 are dealing with a complexity
of information
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 of our brain
there is a galaxy of information
which is
incomprehensible to our linear minds
This
contrasts and compares perfectly
with the chaos with out
We are 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 the disorder
We want form
We want rules
Yes...
Throughout the human history there have been people
religious leaders
political leaders
who have given you order
They'll 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
Float
Open your eyes
Turn off your mind
Unfocus
and let the waves of chaos
roll over you 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
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
and 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
Operate it for yourself
Around 3000 years ago
a group of human beings
in Athens, Greece
developed
a new philosophy
A basic religion
of humanity
It's called humanism
Socrates said:
"The aim
of human life
is to know thyself"
Create and design your own order
in the chaos
Socrates did not give commandments
Socrates did not impose order
Socrates asked questions
He encouraged
his friends
to speculate
to design
to create
to interact
Your 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"
That
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
reform
the chaos
within
Throughout human history
as our species has faced
the frightening
the terrorizing
the fact
that we do not know
who we are or where we are going
in this ocean of chaos
There's been the authorities
the political
the religious
the educational
The authorities
who have attempted to
comfort us
by giving us
order
rules
regulations
informing
forming their minds
their view of reality
To think for yourself you must question authority
and learn
how to
put yourself
into a state of vulnerable
open mindedness
Chaotic
Confused
Vulnerability
To inform yourself
to think for yourself
question authority
operate your mind
question authority
Then came Marshall McLuhan
in the 1950s
McLuhan said:
in a socratic sense
that 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
Imprinting them on our brains
by education
by religion
by politics
by the authorities
McLuhan said:
If you wanna change your mind
change the media
change the words you use
change the mode of communication
Change the medium
change yourself
change
your society
In the 1960s
a new mode of communication developed:
television
The kids growing up in the 1950s
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
Reprogram your brain
McLuhan 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
a state of open mindedness
a pleasant
vulnerability
in which
we will inform
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's been 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 you learning how
to design your own realities
Warning
Warning
Warning
Warning
Who controls your screens
controls
programs
your mind
Your eyes
are the windows of your brain
The eyes
are extensions of your brain
The eyes
are made 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 60s we said
"Power to the people"
In the 90s
in the digital multimedia 90s
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 marvel 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
The 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 a language of a 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 the screen
our minds
are
bedazzled
Our minds are softened
Our linear, sharp logical thinking
is...
is...
gentled
And we're communicating brain to brain
We're 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
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 the 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 McLuhan
made the prophecy
he told us
that the aim of evolution
is for us to use media
to create
what we all want:
A global village
the language
that 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 electron
of radiowaves
of rhythm
Now we have
digital communication
We can create our fantasies
We can create our rhythms
Design
on screens
New language will develop
Global language
not based on letters
not based on grammars
The language which we all understand
based on clusters and waves
of light
and sound
We all understand
We all celebrate
We all glory
In the light
Illumination
The contact
The intersection
interaction
around the world
The language of form
We will create a language
of
international
global
brain link up
Anyone
in any culture
watching the screen
will get the general picture
There is one global village
There's
one
global
human spririt
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 are just now learning to communicate
brain to brain
soul to soul