How To Operate Your Brain
How To Operate Your Brain
| 04 November 1994 (USA)
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How to Operate Your Brain, is a 29 minute, guided, electronic (spoken/musical) meditation. In it, Dr. Leary tries to impart to the listener essential aspects of his visionary LSD experiences. While it may have been intended for use with drugs to provide some of the positive "set" and "setting" that he saw as essential for a good "trip", it stands alone as a profound, guided meditation. In it, you will hear some of the central, sacred principles of Yoism.

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Comwayon

A Disappointing Continuation

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FrogGlace

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

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Jenna Walter

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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Janis

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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Graeme Kilshaw (EduCube)

When we learn to unlearn our conditioned ways of thinking, we begin to discover how wrong humanity has been in the past, and how right we can become if we change in the present moment and evolve into a digital future. This video inspires an evolution in consciousness, catalysing changes in the mind, opening up the possibility for a global language of light to emerge, the language of the friendship cube. A new language is developing, a language of photons, of light waves… light waves representing thought forms… ideas travelling around the world creating solutions. We live in a global nexus of ideas and the portal into a digital future, a future of visual binary communication, that portal is the friendship cube. And the cube is our companion in this evolution of consciousness. After a certain stage, we will be thinking in binary code, and we will be capable of uploading visual binary neuro-signals to computers… possibly even extending human memories into databases that can be carried by robotic bodies. The possibility for trans-humanism and cybernetic consciousness exists as a result of the friendship cube and the technology of visual binary communication. I look forward to the day when I communicate using visual binary light signals. Speaking in sound will no longer be necessary when we evolve into space-born, light beings. This evolutionary re-birth for humanity is a long-prophesied day that I hope to live myself, and maybe even meet the ghost of Timothy Leary in that new world.

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joey-206

This post is in response to a previous post with the title "weak effort." I'm the director of the movie so I won't state my opinion here and I will rate it 5 to be fair. The movie is based on the multimedia lecture Dr. Leary performed around the world in the early 90s. The previous post states, "Leary's script does not really contain much of interest." Here is a quote from the movie. See for yourself whether you find this interesting or not:"Then came Marshall McCluhan, in the 1950's. McCluhan said, in the Socratic sense, 'The 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, imprinted in our brains by education, by religion, by politics, by the authorities. McCluhan said, 'If you want to change your mind, change the medium.' Change the words you use. Change the mode of communication. If you change the medium, you change yourself. You change your society."

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gothiqua9

This video is obviously intended to be viewed by a select crowd that is interested in self awareness via not only "normal" means but, via alternative avenues as well. The video came out during the "Cyber-Punk" / Rave movement and is Fantastic if viewed under the right conditions. Those who possess the sheep mentality will not likely understand the concept of this video.Every metaphor approximating the visionary experience is optical: illumination, revelation, insight, perspective, reflection. This video works from that perspective. The human brain is starved for electronic stimulation; the human brain is addicted to light. The brain is designed to design realities.

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barrettfan

This is a very unusual movie, if you can call it that. The whole thing is Timothy Leary telling the viewer over and over to think for your self and to question authority. All the while, weird spiraling lights and flashing images are being mixed in with Timothy Leary's hypnotizing words. It is like some kind of reverse brain washing video. It almost has the affect of a mild drug, and would probably intensify any consumed drug. All in all, I would recommend this movie. Although it is unusual, to say the least, some of the things said actually make sense. In fact, if you do come across a copy, let everyone you know see it.It may change their life... or, just waste a half an hour of it.

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