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.

Robert Forte studied the history and psychology of religion at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz. He served on the board of directors of the Albert Hofmann Foundation and is the editor of Entheogens and the Future of Religion.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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
Anita Hoffman

My Meetings with Timothy Leary
Albert Hofmann

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

Letters 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's Stanley

Stolaroff on Leary
an interview with Myron Stolaroff

The Most Kind Man I Have Ever Known
Danny Sugarman

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