Jennifer Ulrich is an archivist who spent more than a year
working with Timothy Leary’s papers at the New York Public Library.
She lives in New York City.
Timothy Leary’s son Zach Leary is the host of the It’s All
Happening podcast. He lives in Los Angeles.
Michael Horowitz founded the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library of
drug literature. He lives in Vancouver.
“Ulrich provides a fascinating look into Leary’s world and a
counterculture that firmly believed in better living through the
use of mind-altering chemicals.”
*Library Journal*
“The exchanges between Leary and Ginsberg are collected in a new
book, “The Timothy Leary Project: Inside the Great Counterculture
Experiment,” compiled by the archivist Jennifer Ulrich... Ulrich’s
selections, many of them previously unpublished, round out the
trajectory of Leary’s life from professor to guru to fugitive to a
nostalgic caricature of himself.”
*The New Yorker*
“As this collection of documents from the archive reminds us,
Leary's story is complex. Indeed, the writings here—including
Leary's notes and commentary as well as correspondence from Allen
Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Eldridge Cleaver, and other significant
figures—highlight Leary's belief in consciousness expansion, which
he saw as the evolutionary purpose of humanity.”
*Kirkus Reviews*
"...archivist Jennifer Ulrich’s The Timothy Leary Project serves as
the first collection of the patron saint of LSD’s selected papers
and correspondence.”
*The A.V. Club*
Psychologist Timothy Leary was fascinated with the effects of
psychedelic drugs on the human mind under controlled conditions,
and his studies and papers on the use of LSD and psilocybin (back
when they were still legal in the United States) offer a rich look
at what lies beyond our consciousness. The first-ever collection of
his selected papers is on offer in this novel, and well worth the
read.
*Domino Magazine*
“The documents and insights in this book shed new light on Timothy
Leary—a brilliant, friendly charismatic, whose habitual and fanatic
neuroses motivated both rebellion and creative energies.”
*artist and cofounder of USCO*
“Timothy Leary engineered a revolution in society, art, and science
sparked by his passion for the psychedelic experience and the
potential of the human mind. This book delivers a fascinatingly
intimate record of how this brilliant, courageous, and awed genius
changed our world.”
*author of the bestselling Cannabis Pharmacy*
“People tend to think of Tim Leary as the Irish rebel psychologist
who recklessly led people into dropping acid and dropping out, or
as an inspired visionary philosopher who had a penchant for
categorizing and classifying. What few people knew (myself
included) is that he also had a secret pack rat mentality and le a
paper trail of his travels, ideas, and activities. From the six
hundred boxes of his legacy le to the New York Public Library, the
editor has compiled a selection of his notes and letters. They
portray a brilliant and restless genius who never feared to make
mistakes or change his views.”
*Coauthor, with Leary and Alpert, of The Psychedelic
Experience*
“In some quarters, Timothy Leary is thought of as someone who was
only concerned with enjoying his celebrity and keeping the party
going. And while he certainly managed to enjoy himself, Leary was
seriously engaged in various discourses and sincerely involved in
the lives of friends, family, and lovers. Hopefully, these letters
show people the real Timothy Leary—an inveterate letter writer who
took the time to engage with all kinds of people. Few of us would
be as generous.”
*cofounder of Mondo 2000 and coauthor of Transcendence*
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