New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary Papers

nytimes.com:

When the Harvard psychologist and psychedelic explorer Timothy Leary first met the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1960, he welcomed Ginsberg’s participation in the drug experiments he was conducting at the university.

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Comments

[Miguel Antonio]

03:26 PM on 06/16/2011

The New Yorker posted a comment piece on the acquisition on their website, FYI:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/06/turn-on-tune-in-drop-by-the-archives-timothy-leary-at-the-nypl.html

[Tom Sutpen]

02:53 PM on 06/16/2011

Perhaps the biggest fraud and mountebank and Con artist America produced in the 20th century.

[TedEjr]

09:07 AM on 06/20/2011

Stealing a line from I Love Lucy, I would ask, "Splain Lucy."

[bushitbrain]

12:14 PM on 06/16/2011

Future generations will rank Dr. Tim Leary's contributions to psychology & culture as almost Einstein-like, & historians will rank him as America's first native son made a political prisoner.
Not only are medical researchers learning wonderful applications of psychedelics to mental health issues, but also to spiritual awakening & transformation.
In 1961, Leary & colleagues began to treat prisoners in Mass.'s Concord prison with LSD, which they took alongside them. Several yrs. later, Leary's therapies were shown to dramatically reduce the rate of return-to-prison from 70% to 10%. This only scratched the surface, yet all America could hear was Art Linkletter's daughter's suicide, hippie orgies, & Nixum's tirade against porn & drugs. Today, we are still paying the price for this media-driven polarization of our society over nature's greatest gifts.
Its time to let the sunshine in again.