Timothy Leary used LSD and developed a philosophy of mind expansion and personal truth through LSD.

After leaving Harvard, Timothy Leary continued to publicly promote the use of psychedelic drugs and became a well-known figure of the counterculture of the 1960’s.

He popularized carchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as ‘turn on, tune in, drop out’, and ‘think for yourself and question authority’.

Like every great religion of the past we seek to find the divinity within and to express this revelation in a life of glorification and the worship of God. These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the present – turn on, tune in, drop out.

‘Turn on’ meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of Consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end.

‘Tune in’ meant interact harmoniously with the World around you – externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives.

‘Drop out’ suggested an active, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. ‘Drop Out’ meant self-reliance, a discovery of one’s singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change.

During the 1960’s and 1970’s, he was arrested often enough to see the inside of 36 different prisons worldwide. President Richard Nixon once described Timothy Leary as ‘the most dangerous man in America’.

In January 1995, Timothy Leary was diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancder. He then notified Ram Dass and other old friends, and began the process of directed dying, which he termed ‘designer dying.’

Timothy Leary did not reveal the condition to the press at that time, but did so after the death of Jerry Garcia in August.

Leary and Ram Dass reunited before Leary’s death in May 1996, as seen in the documentary film Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary.