Start Your Own Religion

by Timothy Leary

START YOUR OWN RELIGION embodies the Timothy Leary's core attraction—expansive religious (personal) freedom. Become the highest version of yourself! The purpose of life is religious discovery. return to the temple of God—your ow body. Get of out your mind and get high. Religious living is conscious here-and-now aliveness. He urges readers to drop out, turn on tune in. Drop out and detach from external social drams. Turn on with a sacrament that returns you on to your body. Tune in and be reborn. Leary's message thrilled the youth of the 1960s and it is still appealing today.

Genres: Philosophy, Religion

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 11, 2004

About the author

Timothy Francis Leary was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, modern pioneer and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."

Reviews

[Elliot · Rating 2 out of 5]

Shite. It’s like it was written for two year olds which given the subject matter is bizarre.

[Ian Evancho · Rating 4 out of 5]

hopefully i can meet tim leary in my next life

[Apollo Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

and I might

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you are trying to take LSD and be spiritual and don't like the government than maybe you'll like this book. Everyone else, don't waste your time. It's a bunch of trip ramblings about being God, avoiding normal society, government, etc. Mumble jumble ramble. Bah!

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Based on the hippie culture of the 1960s, Dr. Leary suggests that all religions are made up. He explains in the lifestyle of the hippie movement how to tailor a religion to fit your views on living life to justify your lifestyle.