“Tim said, ‘That’s the whole point of all my work on brain change!’ He hugged her excitedly. ‘That’s it! You’ve got it! Positive energy is as real as gravity. I’ve felt it.’
Two hours later, at the door, Tim was stopped by one of our guests with a final question before he left.
‘What do you do, Dr. Leary, when somebody keeps giving you negative energy?’
Tim grinned that special grin of his that so annoys all his critics. ‘Come back with all the positive energy you have,’ he said. And then he dashed off to the car, to the airport, to the next lecture…and to God-knows-what fate in the fourteenth year of his struggle with the legal system.
And so I learned the final secret of the Illuminati.”
From Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (New York: Pocket Books, 1978), 253.
April 22, 2010 at 1:03 pm |
That’s hard to do.
April 22, 2010 at 1:50 pm |
Indeed. Perhaps that’s why it is so rare and elusive. And incalculably valuable…
April 22, 2010 at 4:33 pm |
You can find out if you have it:
http://altmedicine.about.com/library/weekly/bl_quiz_positive_energy.htm
I scored pretty low because it was “yes” or “no” with no “sometimes” option. I guess there’s no room for relaitivity in the positive energy quotient.
April 22, 2010 at 9:11 pm |
There’s no “sometimes” or “in an altered state of consciousness” option. The survey is indeed Cartesian, simplistically dualistic and fairly lame. Love is the network — that is neither on or off, it just is.
April 23, 2010 at 3:10 pm |
I have enough trouble with just turning the other cheek.
April 26, 2010 at 8:39 am |
A Buddhist might argue that Leary was a Bodhisattva, if he could really do that, and at the same time promote the sort of liberation produced by psychedelics (which becomes a dependency in the case of some).
April 26, 2010 at 10:43 am |
Yeah, a Buddhist might argue this (although, do Buddhists really argue?) And perhaps he or she would even be right…