The Timothy Leary Project: Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment

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The first collection of Timothy Learys (19201996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase turn on tune in drop out Leary cultivated interests that ranged across experimentation with hallucinogens social change and legal reform and mysticism and spirituality with a passion to determine what lies beyond our consciousness. Through Learys papers the reader meets such key figures as Allen Ginsberg William S. Burroughs Ken Kesey Marshall McLuhan Aldous Huxley John Lennon and Yoko Ono and Carl Sagan. Author Jennifer Ulrich organizes this rich material into an annotated narrative of Learys adventurous life an epic quest that had a lasting impact on American culture.