THIS GUY WAS A DOPER AND NO ROLE MODEL.
HE WAS HUGE IN THE 1960s COUNTERCULTURE DAYS.
AS A VOLUNTEER IN THE MIDDLE EARTH BAD TRIP CENTER, I SAW THE HELL OF PEOPLE'S RESULTS OF TAKING PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS IN PERSON.
THIS POSTING IS JUST TO SHOW HOW SOME OF THE ELITE SPENT THE 1960s
"Timothy Leary's Dead" (1996) is an unusual documentary about the counterculture guru, who became well-known for his phrase: "Turn on, tune in, drop out." Director Paul Davids charts the life of the rebel Harvard professor who transformed his own and the others' life using LSD trips as spiritual tools.
After leaving the halls of academia, Leary founded a community of like-minded individuals - League for Spiritual Discovery, which aimed for spreading of new psychedelic consciousness. He claimed that it was his influence that led the Beatles to experiment with drugs and come up with the acid inspired "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
Davids uses TV and newsreel footage to capture this prankster's experiences as a prisoner, an underground fugitive, a pop icon, and in late period a devotee of the Internet.