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Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and author known for strongly advocating psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from "bold oracle" to "publicity hound". According to poet Allen Ginsberg, he was "a hero of American consciousness", while writer Tom Robbins called him a "brave neuronaut". President Richard Nixon disagreed, calling Leary "the most dangerous m…
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entertainment · American psychologist (1920–1996) · psychologist · writer · actor · also Timothy Leary, Timothy Francis Leary, Dr. Timothy Leary, Leary
Born 22 October 1920 · Died 31 May 1996 · Q211731
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2026· 3 entries
“the challenge of the psychedelic chemicals is not just how to control them, but how to use them.”
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The Guardian: International Freak by M Syd Rosen review – the British Timothy Leary
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2015· 1 entry
Susan Sarandon brought some of his ashes to the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada, and put them into an art installation there
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2011· 1 entry
The New York Times reported that the New York Public Library had acquired Leary's personal archives, including papers, videotapes, photographs and other archival material from the Leary estate, including correspondence a
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1999· 2 entries
In 1999, a letter from 22 "Friends of Timothy Leary" sought to soften impressions of the FBI episode.
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A letter from 22 "Friends of Timothy Leary" sought to soften impressions of the FBI episode
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1997· 1 entry
And remained in orbit for six years until it burned up in the atmosphere
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1996· 12 entries
Died 1996-05-31.
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Recorded the album Right to Fly with Simon Stokes, which was released in July 1996
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“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
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“At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.”
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“The universe is an intelligence test”
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“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
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“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
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“I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.”
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“El PC es el LSD de los 90.”
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“In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.”
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“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.”
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Months before his death, Leary appeared in the feminist science fiction feature film Conceiving Ada
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1995· 1 entry
Leary had a cameo at the end of the video for alternative rock group Blind Melon's song "Galaxie"
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1994· 1 entry
Leary appeared as himself in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Elevator", and also appeared in an episode of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr
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1992· 1 entry
In front of hundreds of Neo-Pagans, Leary declared, "I've always considered myself a Pagan
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1989· 2 entries
Appeared together on stage in a dialog called The Inner Frontier hosted by the Association for Consciousness Exploration, the same group that had hosted Leary's first Cleveland appearance in 1979
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Appeared with Robert Anton Wilson in a dialog called The Inner Frontier for the Association for Consciousness Exploration, a Cleveland-based group that had been responsible for his first Cleveland appearance in 1979
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1988· 1 entry
Leary held a fundraiser for Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ron Paul
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1982· 1 entry
As ex-cons debating a range of issues, including gay rights, abortion, welfare and the environment
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1979· 1 entry
Last Gasp published the one-shot edition Neurocomics: Timothy Leary
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1978· 1 entry
Married filmmaker Barbara Blum, also known as Barbara Chase, sister of actress Tanya Roberts
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1976· 1 entry
Governor Jerry Brown released Leary from prison
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1973· 2 entries
Was sent to Folsom Prison in California and put in solitary confinement
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El Perfecto Comics was organized by Aline Kominsky and published by The Print Mint to raise funds for the Timothy Leary Defense Fund
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1972· 1 entry
Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell, persuaded the Swiss government to imprison Leary, which it did for a month, but it refused to extradite him to the US
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1971· 1 entry
The couple fled to Switzerland, where they were sheltered and effectively imprisoned by a high-living arms dealer, Michel Hauchard, who said he had an "obligation as a gentleman to protect philosophers"; Hauchard intende
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1970· 1 entry
Leary received a ten-year sentence for his 1968 offense
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1969· 2 entries
Leary joined John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their Montreal bed-in, and Lennon subsequently wrote Leary a campaign song called "Come Together"
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The Supreme Court concurred with Leary in Leary v
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1968· 1 entry
Leary was arrested again in Laguna Beach, California, this time for the possession of two marijuana "roaches"
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1967· 3 entries
And gave birth to Ganden Thurman that year
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Called Start Your Own Religion to encourage people to do so
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The event was directed by Ted Markland of Bonanza
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1966· 5 entries
Just months after the subcommittee hearings, LSD was banned in California, and by October 1968, it was banned nationwide by the Staggers-Dodd Bill
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Leary reorganized the IFIF/Castalia Foundation under the name the League for Spiritual Discovery, a religion with LSD as its holy sacrament, in part as an unsuccessful attempt to maintain legal status for the use of LSD
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Sentenced to 30 years in prison, fined $30,000, and ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment
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Folkways Records recorded Leary reading from his book The Psychedelic Experience, and released the album The Psychedelic Experience: Readings from the Book "The Psychedelic Experience
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“He was a government agent entering our bedroom at midnight. We had every right to shoot him. But I”
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1965· 6 entries
When he was arrested for marijuana possession
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Leary took his two children, Jack and Susan, and his girlfriend Rosemary Woodruff to Mexico for a month-long vacation to rest and write an autobiography
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“learned more about ... [his] brain and its possibilities ... [and] more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than ... in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research”
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Leary co-edited The Psychedelic Reader
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At a New York City art exhibit, and invited her to Millbrook
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Leary said that he had "learned more about
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1964· 1 entry
Leary, Alpert, and Ralph Metzner coauthored The Psychedelic Experience, based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
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1963· 3 entries
Reporting that Leary had left campus without authorization and "failed to keep his classroom appointments"
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Gave Leary and his associates access to a sprawling 64-room mansion on an estate in Millbrook, New York, where they continued their psychedelic sessions
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Leary was terminated for failing to attend scheduled class lectures, though he maintained that he had met his teaching obligations
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1962· 1 entry
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, to carry out studies in the religious use of psychedelic drugs
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1960· 1 entry
Leary became convinced that mushrooms are beneficial to mental health
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1958· 1 entry
The National Institute of Mental Health terminated Leary's research grant after he failed to meet with a NIMH investigator
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1957· 2 entries
Life magazine published "Seeking the Magic Mushroom", an article by R
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Published The Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality, which the Annual Review of Psychology called the "most important book on psychotherapy of the year"
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1955· 1 entry
Leaving him to raise their son and daughter alone
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1950· 1 entry
Leary received a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley
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1947· 1 entry
And their son Jack arrived two years later
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-10-22.
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