American Decades
Timothy Leary and LSD
Winning the Game.
Leary was a lecturer in psychology at Harvard who became one of the most recognizable figures of 1960s counterculture by espousing the value of the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, known as LSD. Leary believed that LSD could be used as a tool against what he called the cultural game which regulates and prescribes the behavior of all members of society. Religion, politics, family life, and other social institutions have roles, rules, goals, and jargon all their own: to this extent, Leary claimed, they resemble baseball or basketball. The way out, the way to recognize that such social games could be played or not played as one chose, is to expand the consciousness; and the most effective way of doing that is through the use of hallucinogens.
Leary's Vision.
Leary himself first experimented with hallucinogens in Mexico in 1960 by taking mushrooms purchased from an Indian spiritual...
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1960's Lifestyles and Social Trends
The 1960's
