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Timothy Leary

    October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996

    Timothy Leary was an American writer, psychologist, and futurist, celebrated as a pioneer in psychedelic drug research and advocacy. An enduring icon of the 1960s counterculture, he is most renowned for promoting the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. Leary famously coined and popularized the catchphrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out," encapsulating his philosophy on consciousness expansion and societal detachment.

    Timothy Leary
    High priest
    Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality
    The Intelligence Agents
    Chaos and Cyber Culture
    Classroom Vibe
    The Psychedelic Reader
    • 2021

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      The Social Dimensions of Personality - Group Process and Structure
    • 2021
    • 2021

      Timothy M. O'Leary is a firm believer that decisions about improvements, whether they be for a teacher or school, need to be based on fact, not fancy. In Classroom Vibe he uses data to demystify why some classrooms are primed for learning while others aren't and explains why strategies for change in schools often fail. In breaking down the atmosphere of the classroom as experienced by the students – the 'classroom vibe' – he gives teachers practical steps for improving theirs.The author argues that when teachers focus their improvement efforts on the 'vibe' in each of their classrooms and school leaders focus on supporting their teachers in this endeavour, everyone benefits. He provides a clear framework that highlights how the culture of a classroom can determine whether important teaching strategies will succeed or fail.

      Classroom Vibe
    • 2014

      Chaos and Cyber Culture

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      4.2(16)Add rating

      America's most dangerous man -- according to Richard Nixon -- and the Pied Piper of Youth is BACK! This book is about designing Chaos and fashioning your personal disorder: On screens with cyber tools from counterculture perspectives with informational chemicals (Chaos drugs) while delighting in cybernetics as guerrilla artists who explore de-animation alternatives while surfing the waves of millennium madness to glimpse the glorious wild impossibilities and improbabilities of the century to come. Enjoy it! It's ours to be played with! Chaos & CyberCulture conveys Timothy Leary's vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and the empowerment of computers and other technologies. Leary's last great work, this book includes over 100,000 words in 40 chapters and 80 illustrations, as well as conversations with William Gibson, Winona Ryder, William S. Burroughs, and David Byrne. Timothy Leary, the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru of the '60s counterculture, has reemerged as an icon of the new edge cyberpunks.

      Chaos and Cyber Culture
    • 2011

      This is Dr Leary's only novel designed to provide a psychedelic television experience to the reader. There are four ongoing soap-opera mini-dramas. These are interwoven with commercials, special parody announcements, and mini-documentaries. The viewer is encouraged to flip from channel to channel (chapter to chapter). The central plot is the Quixotic saga of an evolutionary agent, Dylan, a confused but sincere minstrel. He has been assigned to a primitive planet in the latter years of the Roaring 20th Century to perform those small but precise jiggles needed to cause chaos in the old, outmoded gene-pools, thus allowing creative individuals to start exploring and settling the next habitats. Dylan's mission is none other than to rediscover what woman really wants. During his extraordinary life, Dr Leary was known as a world-renowned psychologist, a student at West point, a defrocked Harvard professor, a hero, a relentless champion of brain-change, a counterculture guru, a stand-up philosopher, a prisoner of the U.S. Federal Government, a developer of computer software, friend to such notables as Aldous Huxley, William S Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, described as "the most dangerous man in America" by President Richard Nixon, and he was an inspiration for millions of freedom-loving and free-thinking people throughout the world.

      What Does WoMan Want?
    • 2008

      This timely book, Timothy Leary's "cyberpunk manifesto," is his future-vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and empowerment via computers and brain technologies. Cyberpunks brings together some of Leary’s most provocative writings, along with selections from interviews and conversations with a variety of writers and thinkers. Individual chapters include “How I Became an Amphibian,” “Personal Computers; Personal Freedom,” and “Navigational Game Plane.” “How to Boot Up Your Bio-Computer” typifies Leary’s outrageous yet surprisingly grounded ideas, linking pagan, nature-based rituals with a “collective boot-up” of the brain through stimulation from certain natural plants. Together, these pieces describe a new breed of human being who embraces technology, uses it to revolutionize communication and evade and annoy Big Brother, while at the same time achieving personal success, attaining political power, and above all, having fun.

      Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens
    • 2007

      The Fugitive Philosopher

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      3.5(33)Add rating

      Busted for pot in 1965, Timothy Leary was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He escaped, and thus began an almost farcical odyssey: the former West Point student and Harvard professor was now an acid-tripping fugitive. In this delightfully irreverent account, Leary describes his time in Algeria; how he was sheltered by an arms dealer in Switzerland; his exploits with the Weathermen and Eldridge Cleaver, who tried to hold him hostage; and his eventual capture and return to the United States. The book includes black and white illustrations throughout.

      The Fugitive Philosopher
    • 2007

      The Psychedelic Experience

      A manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      3.7(228)Add rating

      The Psychedelic Experience, Created By The Prophetic Shaman-Professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer And Richard Alpert, Is A Foundational Text That Serves As A Model And A Guide For All Subsequent Mind-Expanding Inquiries. In This Wholly Unique Book, The Authors Provide An Interpretation Of An Ancient Sacred Manuscript, The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, From A Psychedelic Perspective. The Psychedelic Experience Describes Their Discoveries In Broadening Spiritual Consciousness Through A Combination Of Tibetan Mediation Techniques And Psychotropic Substances.

      The Psychedelic Experience