“You can be anyone, this time around,” echoes the husky voice of 60s trip-trailblazer Timothy Leary, as kids play on arcade machines that fade into the grinning face of the “good doctor” himself. “You’re the first generation in human history to know how to control your own nervous system.” As the soundtrack hits heady new heights of grooviness, a troupe of long-haired youngsters dancing through sunny fields appear on screen. “Change your own reality,” he smiles, as the music swells.
This is a promotional segue for retro game Mind Mirror – part psychology-lite self-help exercise, and part esoteric voyage into the “bio-energetic” realms and beyond. It’s the one and only published game written and designed by Timothy Leary, an ex Harvard professor, many-time outlaw and prolific dabbler in all things psychedelic. (more…)
Source : rockpapershotgun.com
