Ebook: Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In

Timothy Leary's dead / John Perry Barlow -- An unfinished (R)Evolution / Frank Barron -- To Tim from John / John Beresford -- Briefly / William S. Burroughs -- Inviting in Tim Leary's ghost / Caroline W. Casey -- Tim Leary: a personal appraisal / Walter Houston Clark -- Ram Dass remembers Tim / an interview with Ram Dass -- Observations on my friend and hero / Tom Davis -- Road man / Maynard Ferguson -- Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary / Allen Ginsberg -- Changing his mind / Nina Graboi -- Memories of Tim / Anita Hoffman -- My meetings with Timothy Leary / Albert Hoffman -- Prophet on the Lam / Michael Horowitz -- Jaaz #7 for Tim Leary / Robert Hunter -- Letters / Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard -- The rule of love / Michael Kahn -- St. Timothy on the freeway / Ken Kesey -- Letter to Timothy / Carolyn Kleefeld -- A game of mind tennis with Timothy Leary / Paul Krassner -- A word from the control group / an interview with Jaron Lanier -- The Archaic revival / an interview with Terence McKenna -- From Harvard to Zihuatanejo / Ralph Metzner -- The Esalen institute, Sacred mushrooms, and the game of golf / an interview with Michael Murphy -- Euphorion returned / Claudio Naranjo -- A few memorable moments / Mimi Raleigh -- Farewell/greetings to Timothy Leary / Thomas Riedlinger -- Godfather / Winona Ryder -- Climbing Jacob's ladder / Zalman Schaehter-Shalomi -- LSD: let's save democracy? / an interview with Philip Slater -- Timothy Leary and the psychedelic movement / an interview with Huston Smith -- Owsley's Leary / an interview with Owsley Stanley -- Stolaroff on Leary / an interview with Myron Stolaroff -- The most kind man I have ever known / Danny Sugerman -- Let's do lunch / Jeremy Tarcher -- Mistah Leary, he dead / Hunter S. Thompson -- The Harvard crimson story / an interview with Andrew Weil -- Notes about Dr. Timothy Leary / Robert Williams -- The unreachable stars / Robert Anton Wilson -- Illusions / Rosemary Woodruff.;A memorial volume to one of this century's most colorful and pioneering figures in the consciousness movement A wide array of individuals from all stages of Leary's life provides a comprehensive view of the man and his impact on American culture One of the most influential and controversial people of the 20th century, Timothy Leary inspired profound feelings--both pro and con--from everyone with whom he came into contact. He was extravagant, grandiose, enthusiastic, erratic, and an unrelenting proponent of expanding consciousness and challenging authority. His experiments with psilocybin and LSD at Harvard University and Millbrook, New York, were instrumental in propelling the nation into the psychedelic era of the 1960s. From the 1980s until his death in 1996 he fully embraced the possibilities of freedom offered by the developments in computer technology and the instant communication made possible by the Internet. The essence of Leary's life has often been reduced to the celebrated formula of "Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out." The wider implications of this esoteric call to communion have been lost, just as the multifaceted nature of Leary's personality was obscured by the superficial spin put on his life and ideas. In this book a wide array of individuals from all stages of Leary's life, friends and foes alike, provide a more complete view of the man and his impact on American culture. It is still too early to know how posterity will judge the man and his ideas, but Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In shows that Leary was often so far ahead of his time that few could follow the extensive range of his thought.