Timothy Leary

From The Maze Where Realities Converge - the psychedelic encyclopedia of reality from The Ultimate Comment

Timothy Leary was the main spokesperson for LSD and the psychedelic lifestlye during the 1960s. He was mates with Robert Anton Wilson. He was a lecturer in psychology in Harvard until he got expelled for giving acid to loads of students and staff. He conducted experiments in giving psilocybin to prisoners, which was found to reduce rates of occur re-offending from 70% to 10%. His books include 'The Politics of Ecstasy', 'Info-Psychology' and 'The Psychedelic Experience'.

Leary developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness based on his research of psychedelic experiences and psychology.

Turn on, tune in, drop out

Like Aleister Crowley, Timothy Leary made the mistake of advertizing a sensible and liberating philosophy under a motto that begs to be misunderstood.
Turning on means realizing that therre can be more to existence than what conventional life can offer. This can be done by means of psychedelic experience or other transcendent experience.
Tuning in means integrating the insights of transcendent experience into one's life and mode of existence.
Dropping out means releasing oneself from that which binds, whether mundane obligations, rigid beliefs or any other inner or outer limits. This is like Klesha smashing in Tantra, freeing oneself of sanskara in Buddhism or deconstructing the ego in Chaos magick.

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The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead