Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary was one of the most famous countercultural icons of the 1960's. In 1957, the Harvard psychologist experienced a "profound transcendent experience" while taking hallucinogens in Mexico. No longer content with his work in personality assessment, Leary began advocating the psychotherapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. His "experiments" with LSD often involved students and wild "tripping" parties, which eventually led to his dismissal from Harvard. With patronage from heirs of the...See more
Timothy Leary was one of the most famous countercultural icons of the 1960's. In 1957, the Harvard psychologist experienced a "profound transcendent experience" while taking hallucinogens in Mexico. No longer content with his work in personality assessment, Leary began advocating the psychotherapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. His "experiments" with LSD often involved students and wild "tripping" parties, which eventually led to his dismissal from Harvard. With patronage from heirs of the Mellon fortune, Leary continued his experiments and prolific writing career at a rambling estate in upstate New York known as Millbrook. In 1967, Leary spoke at a San Francisco "Be-In," where he coined the phrase "Turn on, tune in, and drop out." Labeled as "The Most Dangerous Man in America," Leary had many run-ins with the law and served several prison sentences. He died of prostate cancer in 1996; the following year seven grams of his ashes were launched into space aboard a Pegasus rocket. See less
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Timothy Leary book reviews
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Politics of Ecstasy
the real man behind the 1960s counterculture
by john , Nov 6, 2015
This book is amazing. As you read the brief glimpse of the LSD turn on reawakens!
The personal and infrapersonal way in which timothy O'Leary writes makes the reader feel as if he is talking ... Read More
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The psychedelic experience; a manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead
The classic guide to tripping
Leary uses the Tibetan book of the dead as his source of inspiration when making sense of that which lies beyond reason, the psychedelic experience, itself a branch of religious mysticism. Turn on, ... Read More