Leary uses the opportunity to present himself as a philosopher of hope and freedom, making clear that his primary research has been into the nervous system, exploring possibilities for reprogramming the mind. The revolution cannot be physical, Leary suggests, it must be neurological, it must be hallucinatory. It is and will be a revolution of consciousness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us!
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Seuss published over 60 books. Carl Sagan was one of the most well-known scientists of the s and s. He studied extraterrestrial intelligence, advocated for nuclear disarmament and co-wrote and hosted 'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Leary relished both roles. Starting early in life, he delighted in tweaking conventional wisdom, using humor and his charisma as a speaker as his main weapons.
His life mirrored the eras in which he lived, even while he raged against them. He found a place in whatever was going on around him. Timothy Francis Leary was born in Springfield, Mass. Douglas MacArthur. Following the family tradition, Leary entered the U. Military Academy at West Point in He soon became embroiled in a controversy over a drinking party on a troop train, openly confessing his participation.
Under pressure, he left the academy in While a graduate student at UC Berkeley, Leary questioned accepted theories of personality. As he rapidly moved up in his field, his personal life was in turmoil. On his birthday in , he and his two small children discovered his wife in their car, locked inside the garage with the motor running. But the seemingly stereotypical professor again took on the establishment.
That the brain can be reprogrammed. Upon returning to Harvard, Leary began a series of experiments in which his subjects, including students, took psilocybin and later LSD. As word spread about his work, Leary was sought out by Bohemian and literary luminaries, some of whom had already tried psychedelics. With these well-known people involved--Ginsberg declared that world conflict would end if only President John F.
Leary began traveling and lecturing widely, his credibility boosted by his Harvard credentials. He enjoyed his first brushes with Hollywood-style celebrity. Leary was stopped in Texas with a small amount of marijuana and was convicted on several charges. While the verdict was on appeal, the Millbrook house was raided; Leary was roused from bed and arrested by G. In , he threw over Millbrook for Hollywood and married his third wife, Rosemary Woodruff. The campaign was interrupted when Leary was convicted on a new marijuana charge in California and sentenced to 10 years in prison; he was still awaiting 10 years on the Texas charge.
I was a year-old man facing life in prison for encouraging people to face up to new options with courage and intelligence. Gordon Liddy, John Mitchell, J.
Edgar Hoover and other cynical flouters of the democratic process. Would you have let men like these keep you in prison for life for your ideas?
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