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FLASHBACKS : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
SIGNED by TIMOTHY LEARY
By Timothy Leary
Published by Tarcher , Los Angeles /Houghton Mifflin, Boston Massachusetts
1983 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
This Book is a HARDCOVER in very good plus condition (previous owner inscription) with 397 pages and with 16 pages of black and white Photographs.
The dust jacket is in very good condition.
Signed by TIMOTHY LEARY on half title page.
CONTENTS
Prologue
Part 1 == Metamorphosis: The End of the Old
1. Search for the Key
2. Harvard Department of Visionary Experience
3. Reunion with Widow Douglas
4. Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico
5. Harvard Drug Research
6. Politics of Ecstasy
7. Secrets of the Beatniks
8. Getting High on Toil and Suffering
9. Literary Elites and Black Hope
10. Partner in Time
11. Prisoners to Prophets
12. Drugs Are the Origin of Religion and Philosophy
13. Hostile Territories
14. Miracle of Good Friday
15. The Ultimate Aphrodisiac
16. Ambushed by the Harvard Squares
17. The Hollywood Connection
18. Psychedelic Summer Camp
19. Farewell to Harvard
20. Earthly Paradise
21. Islands in the Sun
Part 2 == Paedomorphosis Juvenilization
22. Life on a Grounded Space Colony
23. Experiments at Millbrook
24. Pranksters Come to Millbrook
25. Himalayan Honeymoon
26. Wisest Man in India
27. Dissipative Structures
28. Busted at Laredo
29. The Peat Moss Caper
30. Altered States
31. Emergence of the Drug Culture
32. Brotherhood of Eternal Love
33. Cultural Evolution Versus Political Revolution
34. Twenty Four Steps to Freedom
35. The Exiles
36. Landlocked in the Alps
37. Captured in Kabul
38. Folsom Prison
39. Escape Plot
40. Kidnapped by the Feds
41. Freedom?
Epilogue
Notes
FROM THE COVER == "One morning, while I was ruminating in the shower about what kind of slogan would succinctly summarize the tactics for increasing intelligence, six words came to mind. Dripping wet with a towel around my waist, I walked to the study and wrote down this phrase: “Turn On, Tune In , Drop Out”
Later it became very useful in function as cheerleader for change.
Turn On meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to many and various levels of consciousness and specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end.
"Tune In meant interact harmoniously with world around you – externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives.
"Drop Out suggested an active, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. Drop Out meant self reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change.
"Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean `get stoned and abandon all constructive activity: "
Timothy Leary. Part man, part myth; part knight and part dragon. This is the adventure story only he can tell. From his conception "the night after alcohol became an illegal drug,” through his year as a cadet at west Point, from his career as award winning social scientist, to his twenty-year jail sentence for possession of half an ounce of cannabis marijuana, Leary recounts with candor and iconoclastic humor a most extraordinary life. Psychologist at Harvard. Candidate for governor of California. Spiritual seeker in India. Fugitive with the Weathermen. Exile in Algeria with Eldridge Cleaver. Prison escapee. Author of over 100 books and articles on psychological diagnosis, personal evolution, computers and consciousness, generational politics, and space migration. One of the most controversial figures of the twentieth century.
Flashbacks is also a veritable Who's Who of the sixties and seventies. Kerouac and Koestler, John and Yoko, the Kennedys, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Charles Manson, and G. Gordon Liddy. They're all here along with Afghani generals, Hindu gurus, Folsom Prison bikers, CIA agents, and Hollywood celebrities.
Whether you love him or hate him, his impact on American culture has been undeniable. A symbol of change and self-discovery for an entire generation, Timothy Leary's story is a history of our times.
MORE ABOUT == Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and Mescaline , Sacred plants were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard P Project, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Both studies produced useful data, but Leary and his associate Richard Alpert were fired from the university.
Leary believed LSD showed therapeutic potential for use in psychiatry. He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as "turn on, tune in, drop out", "set and setting", and "think for yourself and question authority". He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanist concepts involving space migration, intelligence increase and life extension (SMI²LE), and he developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book Exo-Psychology (1977).
Leary authored and co-authored over twenty books and was featured on more than a dozen audio recordings. He had an acting career that included over a dozen appearances in movies and television shows, over thirty appearances as himself in the same, and produced and/or collaborated in both multi-media presentations and computer games.
In June 2011 The New York Times reported that the New York Public Library had acquired Leary's personal archives, including papers, videotapes, photographs and other archival material from the Leary estate, including correspondence and documents relating to Allen Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Arthur Koestler, G. Gordon Liddy and other prominent cultural figures. Following an archiving period of up to two years, the material will be open to scholars.
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg asked Leary to participate in the experiments after hearing about the Harvard research project. According to Leary's autobiography, Flashbacks, LSD was given to 300 professors, graduate students, writers and philosophers and 75 percent of the test subjects reported the experience as one of the most educational and revealing experiences of their lives.
Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert founded the International Foundation for Internal Freedom in 1962 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This was run by Lisa Bieberman (now known as Licia Kuenning), a disciple of Leary and one of his many lovers.
Their research attracted a great deal of public attention and, as a result, many people wanted to participate in the experiments, but were unable to do so because of the high demand. In order to satisfy the curiosity of those who were turned away, a black market for psychedelics developed near the Harvard University Campus.
On September 19, 1966, Leary founded the League for Spiritual Discovery, a religion declaring LSD as its holy sacrament, in part as an unsuccessful attempt to maintain legal status for the use of LSD and other psychedelics for the religion's adherents, based on a "freedom of religion" argument.
(Although The Brotherhood of Eternal Love would subsequently consider Leary their spiritual leader, The Brotherhood did not evolve out of IFIF International Foundation for Internal Freedom.) On October 6, 1966, LSD was made illegal in the United States and controlled so strictly that not only were possession and recreational use criminalized, but all legal scientific research programs on the drug in the US were shut down as well.
During late 1966 and early 1967, Leary toured college campuses presenting a multi-media performance "The Death of the Mind", which attempted to artistically replicate the LSD experience.
Leary said the League for Spiritual Discovery was limited to 360 members and was already at its membership limit, but he encouraged others to form their own psychedelic religions. He published a pamphlet in 1967 called Start Your Own Religion, to encourage people to do so .
Leary was invited to attend the January 14, 1967 Human Be-In by Michael Bowen the primary organizer of the event. Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and uttered the famous phrase, "Turn on, tune in, drop out".
In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, Leary stated that slogan was "given to him" by Marshall McLuhan during a lunch in New York City.
Leary added that Marshall, "was very much interested in ideas and marketing, and he started singing something like, 'Psychedelics hit the spot / Five hundred micrograms, that's a lot,' to the tune of a Pepsi commercial.
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