Word: psychedelicized
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Sir: The article on the prison sentence and fine imposed on Timothy Leary [March 18] presents only one side of this complex debate. Research on consciousness-expansion drugs, which are safer than alcohol and less addicting than nicotine, must be allowed to continue. We cannot afford to legislate out of...
At the moment Leary is at his home in Millbrook, New York, where he directs activities of The Castalia Foundation, are institution devoted to research on "psychedelic," or "mind-broadening," experiments, such as those induced by certain drugs. "This was a heresy trial," Leary said yesterday, "but in the long...
Leary was dismissed from his Harvard lectureship in 1962 for absenting himself from classes without University permission. He and Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, who was dismissed at the same time, had been conducting experiments with psychedelic drugs.
Leary is a surprisingly staid fellow and doubtless disappointed many in his hip audience last Thursday night at PBH. His one concession to that sensibility was an outrageous amoeboid tie, but his tweediness in other respects would have endeared him to any Clubbie, had there been one in attendance. Close...
The psychic habits of our society are responsible for the "anthill quality of modern life," according to Leary. People who take the games they play seriously are ants, and the only way out of this psychic provincialism is an expanded consciousness. Psychedelic drugs are a sure-fire way to bust...