From the Vault: Timothy Leary, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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🗓️ 6 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Idolized by some and reviled by others, Timothy Leary remains an icon of 1960s counterculture and psychedelic self-exploration. But who was this rebel, psychologist and celebrity? What did he reveal about LSD’s power and potential? Join Robert and Christian for a special two-part look at the man, the time and the drug he championed. Turn on, tune in, drop out... (originally published Sep 19, 2017)

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.
0:09.0	And I'm Joe McCormick and it's Saturday, time to go into the old vault this time for
0:13.3	an episode that you and Christian did back, I think this was published originally in September
0:18.6	of 2017. That's right. Since we're doing this series on psychedelics, I thought it'd
0:23.8	be good to revisit these older episodes that Christian and I did on Timothy Leary, looking
0:29.1	at Timothy Leary, his biography, and the role he played in the history of psychedelics,
0:36.0	which is kind of a double-edged sword here, I guess. On one hand, he was at the forefront
0:42.6	of the counter-culture movement, but he undoubtedly did a lot of damage to the reputation of psychedelics.
0:49.8	Interesting that he has a controversial legacy not just among people who were opposed to psychedelics,
0:56.0	but among a lot of psychedelic supporters, people who were involved in psychedelic research.
1:00.4	There's a lot of, I don't know if you'd say anger, but even in contemporary accounts, you
1:06.6	read about people who just kind of hang their head and they're like, man, Timothy really,
1:12.4	really made things difficult for us. Yeah, indeed. And we discussed some of that in the psychedelics
1:17.7	episodes that are publishing right now. So let's go ahead and jump into this one. Part one of a
1:24.0	2017 look at Timothy Leary. Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.
1:39.5	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Christian Sager.
1:44.2	And this week we're talking about Timothy Leary. Now we're not just going to talk about Timothy
1:49.6	Leary. We're also going to talk about science of LSD, the history of LSD, the use of LSD and
1:54.9	psilocybin in various research projects, what these substances actually do to the mind, to the brain.
2:03.4	But we're going to use Timothy Leary as kind of a, you know, sort of a guiding principle, I guess,
2:08.4	for this episode. And if you're out there and you're thinking, well, I love Timothy Leary. Well,
2:13.5	then strap in. If you're out there and you're thinking yourself, well, I don't know that I like
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