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Timothy Leary Author

Timothy Leary is the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru of the 60's counterculture. Leary is remembered as a pioneer of research and experimentation into psychedelic substances. He lived his life as a researcher, author, lecturer, political and religious dissident, prisoner, exile, and media magnet whose charisma and radically humorous nature often captured the attention of the world. In his later years, Dr. Leary became a proponent of "cyberculture," extolling the potential of the World Wide web to empower the individual and link human beings into a truly planetary community. He was one of the first "cyber-philosophers," and few have matched his wit and charm