
Smiling Dr. Leary in the late 1970s
from the cover of Exo-Psychology.
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Howl-loose-sin-ate! Here
Dr. Timothy Leary
appears riding Cuba facing South Carolina, showing his "mothy" butterfly wings over
the Atlantic and seeming to look into the heart of the matter with "NMR" rather
than X-ray vision. He is smiling over "the straw that broke the camel's back" and
a Mexican "stick shift" joke he is looking at. I recently marketed my books in
Manitoba and Ontario, and so the cloudy image has me sucking in profile with a wig on
over Manitoba and Ontario, wearing a dunce cap, probably because my books are
expensive and lately new titles and editions have been scarce. However, with
my
unified quantum field
theory, it seems I am going to beat them with a stick. Below this Canadian
scene is a camel in high heels in Texas that seems to be broken in back.
This seems to be synchronized with "22", the number of the Cloud Vision,
which signifies boy-boy activity. I display this sort of humor in my now-lost back
pages on TV Cosmology.
I note that Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert wrote the preface
to
The Joyous Cosmology
by Dr. Alan Watts. The scene reminds me of the song: "Doctor, Doctor, give me the
news...I got a bad case of loving you..." Dr. Leary seemed to turn on my ethereal
projector and took me over temporarily from outer space during a pair of
LSD trips in 1969,
as described in my now-lost essay on
my psychedelic period
from 1967-1973. I have described other cloud visions involving Dr. Leary and Dr. Alpert
(as Ram Dass) in now-lost WeatherVisions6.
Ram Dass also appears in
WeatherVisions1.
You can also find me in
Timothy
Leary's Neurocomics, which shows me with a
"gem green" crown of emeralds, a theme repeated in
lsd blotter art.
Furthermore, I am also found as a
green
hand reaching for his brain on the cover of Your Brain is God by Timothy Leary.
I corresponded with Dr. Leary in the 1980s some, and received letters together with
brochures on products like
Mind-Mirror
Software from his online Software Deli. A letter from Dr. Leary would include something
like an offhand remark on the color of a flowerpot in the northwest corner of the apartment,
something amazing, something remarkable! How did he know that!?!
Here Timothy Leary appears at the same time during the year that
the Wing-Robe of
Orion is rising in the early morning hours for The Return of Orion
(or perhaps
The Return of the Jedi). The
complete butterfly form of Orion reminds us, among other things,
of a published book that has entered the Eternal. In the mythic scheme of things, it seems
to me that it was written by Canis Major, perched on the throne of Puppis, guiding Argo
Navis by the rudder-star "Canopus". Lepus the Hare seems to run across the sky carrying
that book on his hands, on which one wing corner of Orion seems to balance, as if
he were carrying it away from "Sirius" in Canis Major. I note that "St. James the Greater"
is another name for Orion according to
STAR NAMES by Richard Hinkley Allen (Dover),
and that the sucking figure in the weather satellite photo is near St. James Bay.

Timothy Leary with Allen Ginsberg
and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1963.
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Dr. Leary wrote
High Priest,
which has begun to feature more green in the cover art, lately,
including a green Sun burning around his portrait. In the Cloud Vision above,
a Pope-like figure extends his hand toward Lake Michigan. Above it, the old Jim Green
"succor" image has changed into a fox stroking the back of his hand from St. James Bay,
or has become a bottom with 2 fingers in it. (Spirit Joke:
There's nothing
like a dame with a stick shift and 4 on the floor.) Interesting that
appearing with Leary the clouds seems to have cast me as an angelic soul in his show
instead of as a normally forbidding male. I was a sucker for Leary's "lsd", it seems.
The previous camel
image has morphed into this image of the Pope in a characteristic pose. Leary
appeared in a parish priest costume in a photo together with Allen Ginsburg and
other psychedelic history figures including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and attended a
Roman Catholic school.