Who Is Timothy Leary

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All About Timothy Leary

 

Timothy Leary is considered by some to be one of the greatest men of his generation. He wrote over 40 books, was a professor at Harvard University in Psychology and had roles in many Hollywood movies. Perhaps his most important role was as the father of the Sixties countculture and the hippie movement.

Timothy Leary at a Glance 

Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."

Timothy Leary Resources on the Web 

Timothy Leary's Home
The material on the site was taken down a few years ago and not much has been put there to replace it.
Timothy Leary
Russian site with lots of material
Sean Kearney's IncreasingIntelligence.com
This site begins with the question 'Are you smart enough to get smarter?' and tries to furnish some answers - from Leary as well as other sources. In addition to its intelligence increase theme, this is the most constantly updated source of what's happening on the web with the Leary legend.

Timothy Leary Videos on YouTube 

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Timothy Leary Blog Posts from Google 

Conceiving Ada - Free Movies
The supporting cast adds to the film's distinctiveness: Timothy Leary (yes, the Timothy Leary, the LSD guru), is Sims, Emmy's spectral cybervision of a mentor, and the inimitable Karen Black appears as the mother of both Emmy and Ada. ...
Psychology and Buddhism in Today’s Society
For too long has valuable global ancient knowledge, been relegated in the west because of the failings of Timothy Leary etc. and misguided popular opinion. If these practises and their systems can be correlated confirmed and transposed ...
Nick Tharcher and Linda Miller's Original Falcon Press is flourishing!
We have also just released a new, 2 CD audio set called Angel Tech Talk in which Antero discusses the 8-Circuit Brain Model made famous by Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson. And speaking of Antero, we've found his astrological ...
LSD: The Beyond Within
Long before Timothy Leary urged a generation to ?tune in, turn on and drop out,? lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, was being used by researchers trying to understand the human mind. This documentary is a fascinating look at the story ...

Timothy Leary Flickr Photos 

Timothy Leary Zen Style by bruceeisner

Photo from Leary's later life

drtim by Grudnick the Flatulent

Timothy Leary in discussion at Towson University, Maryland

Leary for President: Question Everything by smallworldpodcast

Ah, street art.

I saw Timothy Leary speak at Virginia Tech . . . and it was awesome. by ClintJCL

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Timothy Leary 1966 by terr-bo

Turn On Tune In Drop Out by terr-bo

Albert Hofmann & Timothy Leary by Avatar05

Bruce Eisner and Timothy Leary by bruceeisner

At party in 1994 in San Fransisco

Timothy Leary with Balloon by bruceeisner

Picture from 1996 on Leary.com

Timothy Leary picture from the Seventies by bruceeisner

1968_TimLeary Mosaic0002 by j.buck

Timothy Leary [and wife?] mosaic.

leary1aa by bruceeisner

Tim Leary as a teen by bruceeisner

Timothy and Rosemary Leary 1968 Laugua beach by bruceeisner

Timothy and Rosemary Leary 1968 Laugua beach photo taken during the time Leary s...

Free Timothy Leary Books You Can Read on the Web 

The Intelligence Agents, by Timothy Leary, Ph.D.
he Intelligence Agents, by Timothy Leary, Ph.D.full text (free membership required)
Erowid Online Books : "The Psychedelic Experience" by Leary, Metzner, & Alpert
The full text of 'The Psychedelic Experience', by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, & Richard Alpert (Ram Dass).

Brenda Laural Remembers Timothy Leary 

Remembering Timothy Leary by Brenad Laura The San Francisco Chronicle on May 31, 1996. Excerpt Follows

I first met Timothy Leary when I was a producer at Activision, trying to keep up with his wildly complex ideas about a videogame based on cinema and interpersonal psychology. On my first trip down to LA to work with him he met me at the airport, striding down the concourse dressed in white pants, a white sweater, white sneakers and white hair, and whisked me off in an old pea-green Mercedes with broken seat belts. (The second time I came down I had to call him from the airport for directions. "Get to the Beverly Hilton," he said, "and then you just come whirling and swirling up the hill.") There were always dozens of people at Tim's house - mostly young, sometimes famous, always burning with energy and fiercely fond of the old man. At the end of that first hard day's work, Tim broke some brownies out of the freezer. "Dr. Leary," I said, "are those, uh, marijuana brownies?" He looked at me in mock astonishment. "I'm Timothy Leary," he explained.
Brenda Laural remembers Timothy Leary
But Timothy Leary didn't die of split chromosomes, marijuana lungs, or incurable drug-induced insanity. He died of an old man's disease, just plain old prostate cancer. He also drank too much alcohol and smoked too many cigarettes. He went to West Point, did you know that? - and built a patio on his house in Berkeley in the 50s with his own hands, for the kids to play on. Eerily standard American stuff.

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I met Tim Leary once back in the late 70's (?) when he spoke at SWTSU, San Marcos, TX (LBJ's alma mater). Linda Jones, a friends old lady was his driver and she brought him by for a little "refreshment" after his speech. He said he had to limit what he talked about and said that all the space (pre SMILE) stuff was just metaphor for human development and getting high. A very cool dude. Leary, Hoffman and Owsley are my holy trinity.

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Joi Ito Remembers Timothy Leary 

Joi Ito Remembers Timothy Leary in a post on his blog
10 years since Timothy Leary's death May 31, 2006. Here is an excerpt.

I met Timothy Leary in Tokyo in the summer of 1990. Tim was excited about virtual reality and had told his friend David Kubiak in Kyoto to help him track down "young Japanese kids who know about virtual reality". I wasn't a VR expert, but I was into computer graphics, games and the rave/club scene. I had also just opened a nightclub in Tokyo. David, who lived in Kyoto, directed Tim to me and several others in Tokyo and we hooked up with him at a bar.
Joi Ito remembers Timothy Leary
I hijacked the situation. After dinner I grabbed Tim and took him on a whirlwind tour of the Tokyo club scene. His visit happened to coincide with the time in my life when I was more tuned in to the Tokyo club scene than any other time in my life being the operator of one of the weirder nightclubs in Tokyo. I tried to explain how the Japanese youth were interpreting the rave and cyberpunk cultures. Tim got excited and we continued our dialog. He called these new funky Japanese kids "The New Breed". He changed the "tune in, turn on, drop out" to "tune in, turn on, take over." We talked a lot about neoteny, the retention of child-like attributes in adulthood, which he felt was exhibited in the culture of the Japanese youth at the time.

When I met Tim, I had been exposed to a lot of his work through his early writings and through the writings of people like Robert Anton Wilson. When I asked him whether he had actually talked to aliens as Robert Anton Wilson says in Cosmic Trigger, Tim explained that it was all a joke. A big joke. All that stuff about magic numbers and talking to aliens was a joke. Tim had an interesting relationship with the New Age culture that he helped create in the 60's but his interests had moved on to cyberspace and the next generation of youth. Tim was practical and analytical while also being an amazing performer and communicator. Above all, he was almost always very funny. He called himself a "performing philosopher."

When my mother moved to Los Angeles and I decided to base myself partially out of LA, Tim picked us up at the airport in LA and immediately threw a party for us at his home in Beverly Hills. That weekend, he insisted that we (mom, sister and myself) drive with him to San Francisco so he could introduce us to his friends there. He called Queen Mu, the publisher of Mondo 2000 and asked them to organize a party at the Mondo house. At that party, my sister met Scott Fisher, who she eventually married. We also met Mark Pauline of Survival Research Labs and probably 80% of the people I know in San Francisco. I have a feeling I might have met John Perry Barlow there as well. Tim also took me to the offices of The Well and introduced me to Stewart Brand. In one week, Tim had introduced us to his amazing network and had "plugged us in". I would not be where I am today if it were not for Tim's generosity in making his entire network available to us.

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