Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary was an American psychologist who became the leading advocate for psychedelic drugs in the 1960s counterculture.
A Harvard professor turned LSD evangelist, he coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out." His name evokes both the era's utopian experimentation and its excesses.
Nixon called him "the most dangerous man in America."
Psychedelic hallucinogen
- acidLow-pH chemical compound
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
- set and settingMental state plus surroundings
- tripPlanned travel somewhere
hallucination · ego death · consciousness expansion · mind-expanding · altered states · DMT · mescaline · ayahuasca
Countercultural youth of the sixties
- Summer of Love1967 counterculture convergence
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- WoodstockLandmark 1969 music festival
- beatniksFifties countercultural rebels
anti-establishment · free love · commune · nonconformity · rebellion · sixties · Haight-Ashbury · Ken Kesey
Prestigious Cambridge university
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
- professorSenior university teacher
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- experimentsTests of a hypothesis
dismissal · psychotherapy · clinical trials · personality · behaviorism · cognitive science · tenure · faculty
Flight from captivity
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- exileBanishment from homeland
- AlgeriaMaghreb nation, largest African
- SwitzerlandAlpine republic, perpetually neutral
Afghanistan · arrest · extradition · FBI · Nixon · Folsom · smuggling · capture
Self-penned life narrative
- Tibetan Book of the DeadBuddhist death transition scripture
- lecturesFormal instructional talks
- essaysShort nonfiction prose pieces
- writingsComposed textual works
LSD
Psychedelic hallucinogen
- acidLow-pH chemical compound
- psilocybinHallucinogenic substance from fungi
- set and settingMental state plus surroundings
trip · hallucination · ego death · consciousness expansion · mind-expanding · altered states · DMT · mescaline · ayahuasca · magic mushrooms
hippies
Countercultural youth of the sixties
- Summer of Love1967 counterculture convergence
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- WoodstockLandmark 1969 music festival
beatniks · anti-establishment · free love · commune · nonconformity · rebellion · sixties · Haight-Ashbury · Ken Kesey · Allen Ginsberg
Harvard
Prestigious Cambridge university
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
- professorSenior university teacher
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
experiments · dismissal · psychotherapy · clinical trials · personality · behaviorism · cognitive science · tenure · faculty · dissertation
escape
Flight from captivity
Switzerland · Afghanistan · arrest · extradition · FBI · Nixon · Folsom · smuggling · capture · informant
autobiography
Self-penned life narrative
- Tibetan Book of the DeadBuddhist death transition scripture
- lecturesFormal instructional talks
- essaysShort nonfiction prose pieces
writings · publications · memoir · manifesto
- Sixties IconsBeatles, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Jackie Kennedy
- Counterculture IconsKen Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Huey Newton, Angela Davis
- Ivy League AlumniBarack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George W. Bush
- Provocative WritersCharles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Marquis de Sade
- PsychedeliaLSD, acid, psychedelic posters, tie-dye, hallucination
- LSDacid, blotter, tabs, trip, microdot
Timothy LearyNancy Reagan
Richard Nixon · DEA · Drug Enforcement Administration · prohibitionist · J. Edgar Hoover
Timothy LearyB.F. Skinner
Behaviorist psychologist, conditioning researcher
behaviorist · materialist · rationalist · ascetic · Carl Sagan
Timothy LearyRichard Nixon
J. Edgar Hoover · Billy Graham · Ronald Reagan · square · conformist