Timothy Leary

inception the counterculture rallied around one man, a Harvard professor turned psychedelic guru named Timothy Leary. Leary’s high minded ideals and crowd-pleasing personality led him to become one of the main faces of the movement, and helped its other personalities develop their own ideals as well. Thus, it can be said that Timothy Leary’s explorations with psychedelic drugs led him to encounters with notable figures of sixties’ counterculture, creating a series of exchanges where radical philosophical and progressive ideas were introduced into American…

building data that supported the therapeutic side of LSD, they were forced to stop their research. Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert of Harvard University, refused to follow the new LSD regulations. They were soon relived from teaching at harvard but they still educated the public about the spiritual and therapeutic effects of this drug. In 1938, Dr. Albert Hoffman, a chemist working at Sandoz Laboratories…

its liquid form, it can also be administered by intramuscular or intravenous injection.The effects of the drug were not known until 1948 due to the fact that no one could explain it’s mystifying effects. It was introduced commercially in 1947 by Sandoz Laboratories under the trade-name Delysid as a drug with various psychiatric uses. In the 1950s, officials at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency thought the drug might be applicable to mind control and chemical warfare; the agency's MKULTRA…

He was once called “America’s most dangerous person”, by Richard Nixon. Leary debated with Professor Jerome Lettvin at MIT about LSD. Leary begins the debate with an example of an anti-drug PSA. He states that an unnamed chemical is highly addictive. That once one starts to use this drug, they are addicted for their entire life. He goes on to say that it’s so addictive that if one stops ingesting this chemical one will die from withdrawal. Then he explains that if one ingests too much of this…

terms with a traumatic memory by creating a bridge between reality and the memory. With this bridge in place, the patient can safely cross into the territory where the trauma occurred and come to terms with the distressing moment without having to endure further mental anguish. The idea of LSD has been romanticized. People ingest this powerful chemical in hopes of discovering ancient secrets or to unlock knowledge hidden deep in the unconscious. LSD distorts the reality and perspective of an…

necessarily an escape from reality for the early partakers, but rather… effort at mind expansion”(10). He consumed drugs by going on to an unrealistic, magical adventure in his mind and new perspectives. Reading Jitterbug Perfume resembles going on the greatest hallucinatory fantasy trek of the readers life. He takes the reader inside his mind to mind warping places, for instance, unbelievable characters in different times, with a twist of 60 's psychedelic drug experience. The expressive…

The thing that makes a memory worthy of being in the yearbook is one that makes you happy. It needs to be something that makes you smile when you see it in the yearbook years from now and today. You can be 60 years old and sitting with your husband and children looking back in your high school yearbook and see all the great memories that you made at your high school. You can see your homecoming memories like dressing up each day and having the homecoming parade, homecoming football game memories…

The complex history of LSD was quite unpleasant. The military and CIA were taking advantage of LSD as an interrogation weapon. I do not feel using LSD upon other individuals is the correct strategy in the military, CIA, or for other purposes. Moreover, individuals in the late 1950s such as, various movie stars relied heavily upon this drug rather than yoga or meditation. I was surprised that the government wanted to insure individuals were not misusing regulated substances but there are…

During 1938 in Switzerland, a man by the name of Dr. Albert Hofmann, discovered Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in the pharmaceutical-chemical department of Sandoz Laboratories. Hoffman hoped that this drug could be used to stimulate circulation and respiration, though this idea fortunately failed. He soon had forgotten about the new found drug, and didn’t utilize it for the next five years. In 1943, he continued to observe the drug, and by accidentally ingesting LSD he later experienced some…

In 1943, while World War II raged on, in the neutral country of Switzerland, a chemist by the name of Albert Hofmann was working at the Sandos Pharmaceutical Companny’s Bazo Laboratory. At this time Hofmann was looking for a cure for migraine headaches. What he discovered though, would change his life and the world as he knew it. Lysergic acid dielthylamide, commonly known as LSD, is one of the most potent psychedelic drugs known to man. Hofmann synthesized LSD from from ergotamine, a chemical…