Changing the "Game"

In meditating on mind-body consciousness, I've been going back to human potential thinkers, including Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Baba Ram Dass), Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Werner Erhard, Esalen, Harvey Jackins, and, yes, L. Ron Hubbard, and, when I'm brave enough, related writers, such as Robert Anton Wilson--not to join a cult, just to think about American cultural history.

This loose movement was thoroughly enmeshed in Eastern Buddhist and Yoga practice, as was its predecessor, the "New Thought" esotericism of the nineteenth century, which included H. L. Blavatsky's Theosphy, as well as slightly earlier practices, such as Swedenborgianism and Mesmerism.

Leary was revolutionary not because of any simplistic advocacy of psychedelic drugs. His theory of society and the individual, or culture and consciousness, prefigures post-modern insights in this field.
 

"Leary’s new doctrine rests on the notion that all cultural behavior is simply a “game” that we play. Each game—­psychology, religion, politics—has specific roles, rules, and goals. [Consciousness-expanding drugs are crucial because they allow the user to see beyond the game and its rules.] Leary’s description of human behavior as an elaborate game anticipates postmodernism’s suggestion that all forms of culture and language are simply social constructions that can be manipulated for various ideological ends (“the nationality game. It is treason not to play. The racial game. The religious game”). Leary’s rejection of all social constructions is followed by a rejection of the myth of the self: “the most treacherous and tragic game of all. The game of individuality, the ego game. The Timothy Leary game. Ridiculous how we confuse it, overplay it. Our own mystics and the Eastern philosophers have been warning us about this danger for centuries.”

His project was "deconditioning" by "unplugging the ego, the game machinery, and the mind (that cluster of game concepts").

See:
http://disinfo.com/…/change-behavior-timothy-learys-first…/…http://disinfo.com/2014/08/change-behavior-timothy-learys-first-article-psilocybin/

And see:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620552353/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1620552353&linkCode=as2&tag=disinformation&linkId=V3TYLE4D5HK2EVOB