- Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions
| Born: | 22 October 1920 Comment | | When did Timothy Leary die? / Died | 31 May 1996 | | How many years did Timothy Leary live? / Lived | 75 years | | Zodiac sign: | Libra |
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Timothy Leary facts
- Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment
- Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), was fired from Harvard University on May 27, 1963 for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate student
- Leary was planning to leave Harvard when his teaching contract expired in June, the following month
- He was fired, for "failure to keep classroom appointments", with his pay docked on April 30
- Leary believed that LSD showed potential for therapeutic use in psychiatry
- He used LSD himself and developed a philosophy of mind expansion and personal truth through LSD
- He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as "turn on, tune in, drop out", "set and setting", and "think for yourself and question authority"
- He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanist concepts involving space migration, intelligence increase, and life extension (SMI²LE), and developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book Exo-Psychology (1977)
- He gave lectures, occasionally billing himself as a "performing philosopher"
- During the 1960s and 1970s, he was arrested often enough to see the inside of 36 different prisons worldwide
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