A Brief Biography of Timothy Leary

The Pied Piper Of Psychedelic 1960s died at his house in Beverly Hills at the age of 75. Timothy Francis Leary was born on October 22, 1920 in Springfield Mass and was an only child. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1959, he joined the mental faculty at Harvard. At Harvard, Leary began to administer doses to other faculty members, graduate students, and even prisoners. Learys LSD experimentation promoted the university to issue on him. In 1963, Leary was dismissed from Harvard. His new outlaw status enabled him to freely continue his use of drugs. With a few friends, Leary left milliampere and headed for an estate in New York that became their new headquarters for drug research. It turned out to be more like a hippie commune where people could come and go as they pleased while guests meditated and took drugs. On October 6, 1966, LSD was declared extralegal but that did not seem to damper his spirit. As the age of tumult and change raged on, Timothy Leary showed up all all over the map and alongside a cast of some real famous people at the time. He partied and tripped with Arthur Koestler, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Robert Lowell, Maynard Ferguson and William S. Burroughs. He was arrested by G. Gordon Liddy and sang with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

As a fugitive, he lived in Algeria with Eldridge Cleaver. During late 1966 and early 1967, Leary toured college campuses to spread the psychedelic creed attempting to replicate the LSD experience and get people to turn on, tune in, drop out.# In his long and extravagant populace career, Mr. Leary was an accomplished clinical psychologist at Harvard University, a dabbler in Eastern mysticism, a fugitive and convict, a writer, software spring and an promoter of cybernetics. After being dismissed at Harvard, he slowly became an icon for the counterculture. Except for the two years he spent as a fugitive and the three and a half years he spent in prison, he... If you extremity to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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