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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Timothy Leary, William James, Alexander Shulgin, Terence McKenna, Patrick K. Kroupa, Andrew Weil, John C. Lilly, Huston Smith, Albert Hofmann, Stanislav Grof, Richard Evans Schultes, Robert S de Ropp, Claudio Naranjo, Ram Dass, Daniel Pinchbeck, Humphry Osmond, Jonathan Ott, R. Gordon Wasson, Weston La Barre, David E. Nichols, Sidney Gottlieb, Ralph Metzner, Rick Strassman, Don Barry Mason, Paul Stamets, Myron Stolaroff, Betty Eisner, Louis Lewin, Oscar Janiger, Giorgio Samorini, Paul Devereux, Carl A. P. Ruck, Dale Pendell, Athanasios Kafkalides, Blaise Daniel Staples, Alfred Matthew Hubbard, Howard Lotsof, Walter Pahnke, Marcia Moore, Leo Zeff, Clark Heinrich, Patrick Lundborg, Peter Stafford, Dennis McKenna, Rick Doblin, Christian Ratsch, Christopher Bache, Benny Shanon, Jeremy Narby, D. M. Turner, Luis Eduardo Luna. Excerpt: Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an influential American psychologist and writer, known in particular for advocating the therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs. A controversial figure during the 1960s and 1970s, he defended the use of the drug LSD for its therapeutic, emotional and spiritual benefits, and believed it showed potential in the field of psychiatry. Leary also popularized the phrases "Turn on, tune in, drop out" and "Set and setting." Both proved to be influential on the 1960s counterculture. Due to his influence in this field, he was attacked by conservative figures in the United States, and described as "the most dangerous man in America" by President Richard Nixon. Leary was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the only child of an Irish American dentist who abandoned his wife Abigail Ferris when Leary was thirteen. Leary graduated from Springfield's Classical High School. Timothy Leary attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, ...
