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Timothy Leary
(aka Timothy Frances Leary)
(Writer)
[1920 - 1996]
Profile created June 21, 2007
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  • Evolutionary Agents (2004) by Beverly A. Potter and Timothy Leary
    This heady illustrated collage is supposedly written by past and future "agents" but is actually authored by Leary himself. Memos addressed to "All Evolutionary Agents on Planet Earth" and Leary's theories of terrestrial and postterrestrial "circuits" guiding human destiny complete the picture. In Leary's view, DNA will evolve to take humankind from Earth to space, with a simultaneous advance in intelligence. This vision of a positive, paradisiacal future is one of the most challenging in countercultural thought.

  • Musings on Human Metamorphoses (2003)
    In these collected essays, Timothy Leary explains his belief that humans are morphing into space beings. He describes eight circuits of human metamorphosis, analyzing in depth the consciousness — and its purpose — manifested by each change. Fifteen chapters cover a range of topics from "Spinning Up the Genetic Highway" to "Neurogeography of Terrestrial Politics" to "Twelve Stages of Post-Cultural Evolution." In each of these insightful pieces the author describes the complicated psychological metamorphosis that precedes the launch of humans into space beings. This collection of Leary’s early work at his imaginative and provocative best had an enormous impact on psychology and the humanist movement.

  • The Politics of Psychopharmaco (2001)
    In this brief, lively book of reminiscences, the man Allen Ginsberg called a hero of American consciousness describes his transformation from bohemian professor to avatar of the new age. In his typically wry, provocative style, Timothy Leary gives firsthand accounts of his interrogation before Congress, Robert F. Kennedy's LSD use, his own flamboyant campaign for governor of California, and much more.

  • Politics of Self-Determination (2000)
    Visionary Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary became the charismatic leader of the '60s counterculture. Remembered as a pioneer of research and experimentation with psychedelic substances, he was also an author, lecturer, political dissident, and media magnet whose wit and charm captured the world's attention. In this collection of essays from Leary's early career, he presents his concept of personal responsibility for the effects of one's behavior. According to Leary, self-determining people don't blame their parents, their race, or their society; they accept responsibility for their actions, which in turn determines the responses they get from the world. These writings had an enormous impact on the humanistic psychology movement and libertarian redefinition of the doctor-patient relationship. Ronin's new offering gives readers a fascinating glimpse into Leary's ground-breaking work in this area.

  • Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In: Appreciations, Castigations, and Reminiscences (1999) by Robert Forte
    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, provides 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.


    Includes Appreciations, Castigations, and Reminiscences by Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Weil, Hunter S. Thompson, Huston Smith, Ram Dass, William Burroughs, Winona Ryder, and Others.

  • Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1999)
    Touching on topics ranging from religion, education, and politics to Aldous Huxley, neurology, and psychedelic drugs, the poem and ten vintage essays collected here articulate Timothy Leary's freewheeling, freedom-loving philosophy of life.

  • The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand:  Intelligence is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac (1999)
    Timothy Leary (1920-1997) was one of the most controversial figures of the 1960s, the man who urged a generation to turn on, tune in, and drop out. Now, nearly two years after his death, this manuscript has emerged comprising his best writings about sexuality. Beginning with an account of his first sexual encounter -- his own conception -- Leary takes readers on an exploration of the link between sexuality and the mind. Each short chapter contains either a traditional or novel approach to what Leary called "improving your navigational control over your pleasure cruises," including Hindu methods for stimulation via hypnogogic yantras, chemical aphrodisiacs, and neurolingual tricks for arousal.

  • Design for Dying (1998) by Timothy Leary R. U. Sirius
    Irreverent, thought-provoking and hilarious, Leary's parting shot pioneers new ways to die and new ways for the living to think about death. Urging us to take control of our deaths (and even to determine when and how we will die). Leary relates his own plan for "directed dying," a death we plan and orchestrate to reflect our own lives and values.

  • El Trip de La Muerte (1998)

  • Intelligence Agents (1996)
    A work of social, moral, religious and scientific satire, including articles by and about people who are changing the meaning of freedom all over the world. The fifth and final volume of Dr. Leary's 'Future History Series.' Lots of fun pictures and ideas for your brain.

  • Concrete & Buckshot: William S. Burroughs Paintings (1996) by Benjamin Weissman and Timothy Leary

  • Acid Dreams (1994) by Bruce Shlain and Martin A. Lee
    Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account-part of it gleaned from secret government files-tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early l950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs. Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture; here LSD had a profound impact and helped spawn a political and social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg , Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Timothy Leary, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history.

  • Chaos & Cyber Culture (1994) by Michael Horowitz, Timothy Leary, and Vicki Marshall

    Timothy Leary's Chaos and CyberCulture is his futuristic vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority , independent thinking, individual creativity, and the empowerment of computer and other brain technologies. This cyberpunk manifesto describes a new breed that loves technology and uses it to revolutionize communication and tweak Big Brother while being successful, achieving political power and having fun. Timothy Leary is a leading figure in the consciousness revolution of the 1960s.

    Chaos and CyberCulture brings together his provocative, futuristic writings, lively interviews and cogent conversations with a variety of writers and thinkers. Chaos and CyberCulture defines the emergence of the New Breed of the Information Age, who are creating the cyberdelic politics and culture of the 21st Century.

    Chaos and CyberCulture is a substantial work (over 100,000 words) consisting of over forty chapters and conversations with leading figures. There are eight main sections and a epilogue.

  • HR GIGER ARh+ (1994) by H. R. Giger and Timothy Leary

  • Change Your Brain (1988)
    This book tells the inside story of Leary's early LSD research at Harvard. Known throughout the world as the guru who encouraged an entire generation to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," he draws on wit, humor, and skepticism to debunk the power of psychotherapy and to advocate reprogramming the brain with psychedelics. Discussing how various drugs affect the brain, how to change behavior, and how to develop creativity, he also delves into psychopharmacological catalyzing, fear of potential, symbol and language imprinting, and brain reimprinting with Hinduism, Buddhism, and LSD.

  • Your Brain Is God (1988)
    This collection of essays, written by the poster boy of 1960s counterculture, describes the psychological journey Timothy Leary made in the years following his dismissal from Harvard, as his psychedelic research moved from the scientific to the religious arena. He discusses the nature of religious experience and eight crafts of God, including God as hedonic artist. Leary also examines the Tibetan, Buddhist, and Taoist experiences. In the final chapters, he explores man as god and LSD as sacrament.

  • Info-Psychology (1987)
    Dr. Leary explores the real issues of our time. Space Migration, Intelligence Increase and Life Extension in this "Manual on the Use of the Human Nervous System According to the Instructions of the Manufacturers."

    "The Info-Worlds our species will discover, create, explore and inhabit in the immediate future will not be reached from launch pads alone, but also through our personal computer screens."

  • Flashbacks (1983)
    See also Flashbacks: An Autobiography s (1983) by Timothy Leary with Robert W. Harris

  • Changing My Mind, Among Others: Lifetime Writings  (1982)

  • The Game of Life (1977)

  • Neuropolitics: The Sociobiology of Human Metamorphosis (1977)

  • Exo-Psychology : A Manual on The Use of the Nervous System According to the Instructions of the Manufacturers (1977)

  • What Does Woman Want? (1976)

  • Confessions of a Hope Fiend (1973)

  • Mystery, Magic & Miracle: Religion in a Post-Aquarian Age  (1973) by Edward F. Heenan, Jack Fritscher, and Timothy Leary

  • The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)

  • High Priest (1968)

  • Start Your Own Religion (1967)
    The articles in Start Your Own Religion, written at the height of the psychedelic era, embody Timothy Leary's core philosophy — unlimited personal freedom. Encouraging the youth of the 1960s to return to the temple of God — their own bodies — and live consciously in the here-and-now, Leary's ideas, including urging people to turn on, tune in, drop out, brought him legions of devoted followers and a host of enemies in the American government. Irreverent yet thought provoking, the ideas that revolutionized an earlier generation remain motivational principles.

  • Psychedelic Prayers & Other Meditations (1966)

  • Psychdelic Prayers After the Tao Te Ching (1966)

  • The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (1963) by Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, and Timothy Leary

  • Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality: A Functional Theory and Methodology for Personality Evaluation (1957)

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