(at his ‘los angeles’ home)
(‘age 68’)
by ‘philip H bailey
(‘via e-mail’)
(own work / CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=825337
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(’22 OCTOBER 1920′ – ’31 MAY 1996′)
(died @ ‘age 75’)
(‘prostate cancer)
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*”timothy francis leary” was an american (‘psychologist’ / ‘writer’) known for advocating the exploration of the ‘therapeutic potential’ of ‘psychedelic drugs’ under ‘controlled conditions’*
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(‘leary’ conducted experiments under the “harvard psilocybin project” during american legality of ‘LSD’ + ‘psilocybin’, resulting in the “concord prison experiment” and the “marsh chapel experiment”)
(leary’s colleague ‘richard alpert’ (aka ‘ram dass’) was fired from ‘harvard university’ on ’27 may 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’ + ‘personal truth’ via ‘LSD’)
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(he popularized ‘catchphrases’ that promoted his ‘philosophy’, such as…)
“turn on, tune in, drop out”
“set + setting”
“think for yourself + question authority”
(doesn’t sound very ‘original’)
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(he also wrote + spoke frequently about ‘transhumanist’ concepts involving (‘space migration’ / ‘intelligence increase’ / ‘life extension’ (aka ‘SMI²LE’))
(he developed the “8-circuit model of consciousness” in his 1977 book exo-psychology)
(he gave ‘lectures’, occasionally billing himself as a “performing philosopher”)
(during the ‘1960s’ + ‘1970s’, he was arrested often enough to see the inside of 36 different prisons worldwide)
(‘president richard nixon’ once described ‘leary’ as “the most dangerous man in america”)
“when did he ‘declare’ this?”
“what a ‘badge of honor’!”
(*cue elvis visiting nixon*)
(before making racist remarks to his black backup singers)
(and telling his ex-girlfriend to ‘lay off the pot’)
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥