A STAR-STUDDED HEARTFELT TRIBUTE!
Dr. Timothy Leary, Ph.D -- at once one of the most beloved and reviled, one of the most unifying and polarizing of all figures to come to prominence during the turbulence of the 60s and 70s. From his days as a Harvard psychology professor to his incarceration in Folsom Prison (in the cell next to Charles Manson), from his fierce public advocacy for the intelligent use of psychedelic drugs to his interest, beginning in the 80s, in computers, the Internet, and space colonization, Leary’s was an intellect that never stood still, a life that never was anything close to conventional. No matter what you think of him, his significance in 20th century history, in the science of the mind, in the American counter-culture, and even in popular culture, is undeniable.
In 1999, five years after Leary’s death, Robert Forte, editor of Entheogens and the Future of Religion, brought together a veritable who’s who of psychedelic writers, musicians, artists, scientists and academics to look back on Leary’s colorful life. Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In includes interviews with and contributions from the likes of Terence McKenna, Hunter S. Thompson, Winona Ryder, William S. Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Dr. Andrew Weil, Allen Ginsberg, and many more.