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"None of Dr. Leary's most important studies have either suffered refutation or enjoyed confirmation, because enacted law, statues enacted after and because of Dr. Leary's research - makes it a crime for any other psychologists or psychiatrists to replicate such research. I know you've heard that the Inquisition ended in 1819, but in many areas of psychotherapy and medicine, the U.S. government has taken up where the Vatican left off." Robert Anton Wilson

The U.S. government is responsible for not only stopping many social movements, but has been very proactive in allowing large drug companies to dictate the standard of healing in our country. Leary used a very controversial clinical practice of take hallucinogens with his patients in order to see clearly into the patients reality. Since then, the government has created many institutions that are responsible for shutting down any medical practices outside of the trillion dollar western medical industry. Western medicine has no value in true healing - true healing comes from within. Just like Leary believed that the brain has the ability to create its own reality, I believe that our bodies have enough strength to be its own healer. Western medicine is built on a foundation of 'covering up symptoms' instead of actually curing the illness. The same goes for mental illness. Western medicine prescribes pharmaceuticals when a person has delusions, or depression. Pharmaceutical drugs only cover up the existing condition, and possibly creating a snowball effect, thus the patient develops more ailments. Leary's philosophy included overwhelming a persons mind with information in order to 'reprogram' the brain. Thus
fixing the problem, instead of just covering it up.

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