Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In: Appreciations, Castigations, and Reminiscences

349 Pages·1999·74.86 MB·English

by  Robert Forte (ed.)

T I M O T HY L E A R Y:
APPRECIATIONS, CASTRATIONS, AND REMINISCENCES BY
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Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Terence McKenna,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Timothy Leary : outside looking in / edited by Robert Forte,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-89281-786-0 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Leary, Timothy Francis, 1920- . 2. Psychologists—United States-
Biography. 3. Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience—History
20th century. 4. United States—Social life and customs—20th century.
I. Forte, Robert.
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Text design and layout by Kristin Camp
This book was typeset in Janson with Stanton as the display typeface
Light is the language of the stars and the sun
where we will all meet again.
Timothy Leary
May 30, 1996
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Timothy Leary's Dead 21
John Perry Barlow
An Unfinished (R)Evohition 24
Frank Barron
To Tim from John 31
John Beresford
Briefly 36
William S. Burroughs
Inviting in Tim Leary's Ghost 3 7
Caroline W. Casey
Tim Leary: A Personal Appraisal 45
Walter Houston Clark
Ram Dass Remembers Tim 52
an interview with Ram Dass
Observations on My Friend and Hero 66
Tom Davis
Road Man 69
Maynard Ferguson
Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary
Allen Ginsberg
Changing His Mind
Nina Graboi
Memories of Tim
Anita Hoffman
My Meetings with Timothy Leary
Albert Hofmann
Prophet on the Lam
Michael Horowitz
Jaaz #7 for Tim Leary
Robert Hunter
Letters
Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard
The Rule of Love
Michael Kahn
St. Timothy on the Freeway
Ken Kesey
Letter to Timothy
Carolyn Kleefeld
A Game of Mind Tennis with Timothy Leary
Paul Krassner
A Word from the Control Group
an interview with Jaron Lanier
The Archaic Revival
an interview with Terence McKenna
From Harvard to Zihuatanejo
Ralph Metzner
The Esalen Institute, Sacred Mushrooms,
and the Game of Golf
an interview with Michael Murphy
Euphorion Returned
Claudio Naranjo
A Few Memorable Moments 212
Mimi Raleigh
Farewell/Greetings to Timothy Leary 214
Thomas Riedlinger
Godfather 220
Winona Ryder
Climbingjacob's Ladder 223
Zalman Schaehter-Shalomi
LSD: Let's Save Democracy? 225
an interview with Philip Slater
Timothy Leary and the Psychedelic Movement 241
an interview with Huston Smith
Owsley's Leary 270
an interview with Owsley Stanley
StoIarofF on Leary 279
an interview with Myron Stolarojf
The Most Kind Man I Have Ever Known 297
Danny Sugerman
Let's Do Lunch 300
Jeremy Tarcher
Mistah Leary, He Dead 303
Hunter S. Thompson
The Harvard Crimson Story 305
an interview with Andrew Weil
Notes About Dr. Timothy Leary 319
Robert Williams
The Unreachable Stars 321
Robert Anton Wilson
Illusions 329
Rosemary Woodruff
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This book was born of many labors. Though it bears my name as
editor, without the guidance, collaboration, and friendship of Frank
Barron, Greg Bogart, Nina Graboi, Michael Horowitz, Rowan
Jacobsen, Marge King, Becky Leuning, Vickie Marshall, Ralph
Metzner, and Rosemary Woodruff, in particular, it might have re
mained only a good idea. Thank you to Heather Laudadio for help
ing me conceive this work. A special thank you is due to the folks at
Drive Savers in Novato, California, for the text of the book suf
fered not one, but two hard-drive crashes when it was just about
complete. All seemed lost till their expert service saved the day.
Thanks and love to the family and friends that surrounded Tim in
his final months for welcoming me into their home, for making me
feel part of the team, especially Camella, Chris, Joe, Zach, Michelle,
and Carol. Let us always be friends. Thanks to my own family,
especially my father, Robert Forte Sr., an arch republican, for prov
ing that blood is thicker than ideology, and fo frinancial support.
Thank you to Jaime Nelson for her nourishing, love-filled spirit.
Gratitude to my son, Mircea Alexander Forte, who, seven years old
when Tim died, got right to the point when he asked, "Dad, why
was Timothy so famous anyway? What did he do—free the slaves
or something?" And finally, to Timothy Francis Leary, thank you
for the privilege to share in your abundant and eternal life.
Res ipsa Loquitur
(let the good times roll)