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In a 1974 news conference, Allen Ginsberg, Ram Dass, and Leary's 25-year-old son Jack denounced Leary, calling him a "cop informant", "liar", and "paranoid schizophrenic". [126] No prosecutions stemmed from his FBI reporting. In 1999, a letter from 22 "Friends of Timothy Leary" sought to soften impressions of the FBI episode.
Leary was an advocate for the use of the drug, enjoying its spiritual benefits, with one of his catchphrases being "Turn on, tune in, drop out." A re-recorded version of the song, with different lyrics, "Legend of a Mind (Timothy Leary Lives)" appears on the 1996 album Beyond Life With Timothy Leary.
The disc features three "raps" by Leary backed with psychedelic music. The purpose of the album was to raise funds for Leary's political candidacy for Governor of California . The album includes musical contributions from Jimi Hendrix , Stephen Stills , John Sebastian , and Buddy Miles recorded during an all-night jam session at the Record Plant .
Timothy James Leary (born December 23, 1958) is an American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher. Amateur career. Leary posted a 10–2 record in his ...
John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) [1] was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer, and inventor.He was a member of a group of counterculture thinkers that included Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and Werner Erhard, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home.
Peggy Hitchcock was director of Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert's International Federation for Internal Freedom (IFIF)'s New York branch, and her brother Billy rented the estate to IFIF (later re-named the Castalia Foundation). [9] Leary and the group he gathered around him lived at the estate and performed research into psychedelics there.
Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967, Leary spoke at the Human Be-In , a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out".
"Photographs (You Are Taking Now)" contains a sample of writer Timothy Leary from the audiobook The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The sample itself is Leary talking the listener through a trip on LSD. [4] The use of samples is something that Richard Russell, the song's producer is well known for.