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'''Timothy Leary''' (1920 – 1996) was a psychologist who researched psychedelic [[drugs]] which change the activities of the brain—especially [[LSD]]—and promoted their use.  He became the roving [[Hippie]], the sage of Aquarius, the 1960s icon who promoted peace and love through psychedelic drugs to a nation divided over the rise of the hippie counterculture, as Leary tried to avoid arrest and prison.  Leary coined the slogan, "Turn on, tune in, drop out."

'''Timothy Leary''' (1920 – 1996) was a psychologist who researched psychedelic [[drugs]] which change the activities of the brain—especially [[LSD]]—and promoted their use.  He became the roving [[Hippie]], the sage of Aquarius, the 1960s icon who promoted peace and love through psychedelic drugs to a nation divided over the rise of the hippie counterculture, as Leary tried to avoid arrest and prison.  Leary coined the slogan, "Turn on, tune in, drop out."

Professors at Harvard led the attack on the wayward lecturer, warning that experimental drugs like LSD should be administered by physicians  in controlled medical settings, not by psychologists at late-night parties. Leary  responded that "control of the mind through drugs, which we call internal politics, will be the leading civil rights issue in the coming decades." He claimed, "LSD use is a sacramental ritual." In  1963, he was fired from Harvard.

Professors at Harvard led the attack on the wayward lecturer, warning that experimental drugs like LSD should be administered by physicians  in controlled medical settings, not by psychologists at late-night parties. Leary  responded that "control of the mind through drugs, which we call internal politics, will be the leading civil rights issue in the coming decades." He claimed, "LSD use is a sacramental ritual." In  1963, he was fired from Harvard on a technicality- he was assigned zero courses to teach for a semester, then fired for having an inadequate number of students.

Harvard's action made him immensely popular in the dropout world, despite repeated reports of "bad trips" and psychological damage to drug users.  Despite repeated arrests he avoided prison until 1970. The terrorist group the [[Weather Underground]] helped him escape, but in 1973 he was apprehended trying to enter Afghanistan. Leary returned to prison until paroled in 1976. Leary continued his advocacy lectures across the country from his base in Hollywood.  He married five times, twice to one woman. The first of his spouses committed suicide, as did his only daughter.  

Harvard's action made him immensely popular in the dropout world, despite repeated reports of "bad trips" and psychological damage to drug users.  Despite repeated arrests he avoided prison until 1970. The terrorist group the [[Weather Underground]] helped him escape, but in 1973 he was apprehended trying to enter Afghanistan. Leary returned to prison until paroled in 1976. Leary continued his advocacy lectures across the country from his base in Hollywood.  He married five times, twice to one woman. The first of his spouses committed suicide, as did his only daughter.