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Timothy Leary was a severe drug addict. His mind was modulated, derogated and eroded by his perpetual self-inflicted chemical destruction. I despise him for his advocating of drug use as such a highly educated, and followed individual. I especially despise him because I agree with some of his philosophies, “Think for yourself; question authority. Throughout human history, our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos. It has been the authorities, political, the religious, education authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations; informing; forming in our minds, their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority, and learn how to put yourself in vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic confused vulnerability, to inform yourself.”

Why does it take people years of drug use to come to this level of realization and philosophical enlightenment? Perhaps the loss of the higher level functionality of the brain bestows upon people a primal sense of the universe around us, a chaotic and frightening universe with few answers. Perhaps he was an intelligent man to begin with and he would have yielded more potential had he not damaged his neurons by constantly saturating his extra-neural spaces with excesses of neurotransmitters like dopamine. Rather than using religion, government or authorities as a source of answers and subsequent comfort, he used drugs as a source of answers and comfort, and was actually quite the hypocrite.

Thinking is hard. It is really hard to form or modify pathways in the mind under normal conditions. It takes lots of repetition, and that repetition is usually not fun. Most of the masses would rather breathe through their mouths as they drool in front of the TV while their microwavable dinner heats up in uneven patterns after an 8 hour thoughtless, mundane work day; rather than read philosophy or try to force their mind into performing actions that it has never performed before. Drugs are a lazy way for mouth breathing dropouts to force their minds to change patterns. Drugs usually work by causing the mind to incorrectly release neurotransmitters which stay longer and travel well beyond their originally intended destination neurons, causing the mind to act in undefined and never experienced patterns which some people mistake as ’expansion’ of the mind. However, the excess presence of neurotransmitter chemicals for extended periods of time is often detrimental to the neurons themselves; they become damaged and eventually die. Though someone on drugs may stumble across new concepts, they also kill brain cells. Subsequent uses will yield less and less concepts as the mind becomes more damaged on each iteration. As the cliché goes, drugs kill your brain.

So, how do we expand our minds without destroying them? Use your brain and don’t do drugs! Don’t believe ‘facts’ just because your parents, church leader, president, or college professor may proclaim them. Most importantly, don’t think that you know everything. With an infinite universe, and with a finite mind, the math works out to us knowing [constant / infinity * 100 = 0%]. As soon as we come to the realization that we have a void of knowledge, we can begin filling it and truely expand our minds.

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