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Psychedelic Prayers: And Other Meditations

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Written while Leary was visiting India in 1965 and finished the following year, Psychedelic Prayers is an adaptation of Book 1 of the Tao Te Ching. With a new Introduction by Ralph Metzner, Leary's Harvard colleague, this book of poetry and meditations is being published in its first new edition in 25 years. Illustrations/photos.

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 1997

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Timothy Leary

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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."

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November 2, 2010
This is where I thought that Tim Leary would tend to overstep his limits, A Book as great as the Tao Te Ching shouldn't be re-arranged into some kind of bastardized psychadelic version. He was fluent in eastern philosophy and should have known better than to do something like this, I bet he only did it to capitalize financially. But anyways... The real Tao would be perfect for you if you wanna read something like this while in a psychadelic state of mind
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January 5, 2014
I read this in 1973 and it had a profound influence on my life.
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June 28, 2025
მე ის ტექნიკა ვერასდროს ვიპოვე ახლა და ამ წამს რომ უნდა დავრჩე და წარსულზე სინანულს და მომავალზე შიშს რომ უნდა შევეშვა . ამ წიგნს რომ ვკითხულობდი კი თითქოს ამ მომენტში დავრჩი , და მშვიდად გავჩერდი.
რა სასიამოვნო იყო.
ფხიზლად ვიყავი.
ბუნებაში ვიდექი.
წიგნი ყდით არ აირჩევაო, ამ წიგნის შესახებ თუ არ იციან, ნამდვილად აირჩევა და მერე ზუსტად გაამართლებს.
ის რომ ლოცვები შევიგრძენი ასეათი კარგი, შესანიშნავი თარგმანის დამსახურებაა.
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May 21, 2016
The most treasured book in my library. Signed by the author to me.
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