To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and it's author, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the effects of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s while teaching at Harvard, where he not only encouraged but instituted their experimental use among students and faculty. What began as research into human consciousness turned into a mission to alter consciousness itself. This volume looks at how Leary transformed himself from serious social scientist into counterculture shaman, embodying the idealism and the hedonism of an age of revolutionary change.
- ISBN10 0151005001
- ISBN13 9780151005000
- Publish Date 1 June 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harcourt Publishers,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 704
- Language English