EARLY YEARS: 1920 - 1958
- Timothy Francis Leary born in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA - October 22, 1920
- Attends College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts - 1938-1940
- Enrolls as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point - 1940?????
- Transfers to University of Alabama - receives a B.A. degree in Psychology - 1943
- Earns M.S. degree in Psychology at Washington State University - 1946
- Earns Ph.D. degree in Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley - 1950
- Appointed Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley - 1950-1955
- Appointed Director of Psychiatric Research at the Kaiser Family Foundation - 1955-1958
HARVARD YEARS: 1959 - 1963
- Professor of Psychology at Harvard University - 1959-1963
- First psychedelic experience with psilocybin mushrooms, Cuernavaca, Mexico - 1960
- Tim and Dr. Richard Alpert create the Harvard Psilocybin Project - 1960-1962
- Beat poet Allen Ginsberg participates in the project
- The Concord Prison Experiment - 1961-1963
- The Marsh Chapel Experiment - 1962
- Tim and Dr. Richard Alpert found IFIF, the International Foundation for Internal Freedom - 1962
- Dismissed from Harvard - 1963
- Moves into Millbrook Estate - 1963
THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE: 1960 - ∞
- Coauthors The Psychedelic Experience with Dr. Richard Alpert and Dr. Ralph Metzner - 1964
- Raids by FBI and local authorities (incl. G. Gordon Liddy) end the Millbrook era - 1966
- LSD is made illegal in the United States - October 6, 1966
- Folkways Records records Tim reading, and releases The Psychedelic Experience: Readings from the Book
- Introduced by Aldous Huxley, Tim turns on World religion scholar Huston Smith
HIGH PRIEST: 1962 - 1970
- The Seven Tongues of God (precursor to the 8 Circuit Model of Consciousness) published in The Psychedelic Review - 1964
- Tim creates the League for Spiritual Discovery - 1966
- Tim speaks at the Human Be-In at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and advises, "Turn on, tune in, drop out" - 1967
- Moves to California - 1968
- Pamphlet published called Start Your Own Religion - 1967
INCARCERATION & EXILE: 1970 - 1976
- Arrested for a small amount of marijuana in Texas - 1965
- Convicted of possession under the Marihuana Tax Act - 1966
- Tim appeals the 30 year sentence and $30,000 fine, asserting the Marihuana Tax Act is unconstitutional
- Arrested in California for two roaches of marihuana Tim claimed was planted by the police - 1968
- Supreme Court rules Marihuana Tax Act is unconstitutional - Tim's 1965 conviction is overturned - 1969
- On the day of the court ruling Tim announces his candidacy for Governor of California - May 19, 1969
- Tim and Rosemary join John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their Montreal Bed-In for Peace - June 1, 1969
- John Lennon writes a campaign song for Tim, Come Together
- Tim receives a 10 year sentence for his 1968 offense, with ten years more for a 1965 arrest - January 1970
- Tim escapes from prison, the Weathermen help him and Rosemary flee to Algeria - September 1970
- Uneasy as guests of the Black Panther Party in Algeria, Tim and Rosemary flee to Switzerland - 1971
- The Swiss imprison Tim for one month at the request of Richard Nixon's attorney general - 1972
- Tim travel's to Austria, Lebanon and Afghanistan - 1973
- Arrested by U.S. federal agents in Afghanistan - 1973
- Sentenced to 95 years and incarcerated at Folsom Prison - 1973
- Released from prison by Governor Jerry Brown - April 21, 1976
TRANSHUMANIST: 1973 - 1979
- Presents the 8 Circuit Model of Consciousness - 1973
- Introduces Transhumanist agenda: SM (Space Migration) + I² (intelligence increase) + LE (Life extension).
- Promotes NASA scientist Gerard O'Neill's concept of giant Eden-like High Orbital Mini-Earths
STAND-UP PHILOSOPHER: 1980 - 1991
- Tours and debates with G. Gordon Liddy - 1982
- Tim becomes well known on the Hollywood party circuit
- Return Engagement, documentary about Leary/Liddy debate tour - 1982
- Tim writes his autobiography Flashbacks - 1983
- Actor in films, TV shows and a video game
- Releases Mind Mirror video game with Electronic Arts - 1986
CHAOS & CYBER CULTURE: 1983 - 1995
- Appears with Robert Anton Wilson in a dialog entitled The Inner Frontier for the Association for Consciousness Exploration - 1989
- Appears at the Neo-Pagan Starwood Festival - 1992 and 1993
- How to Operate Your Brain, guided video meditation - 1994
- Collaborates with Eric Gullichsen on Load and Run High-tech Paganism: Digital Polytheism
- Records the Right to Fly album with Simon Stokes. Released in 1996
DESIGN FOR DYING: 1988 - 1996
- Announces contract for cryonic suspension with Alcor -1988
- Diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer - early 1995
- Gives many interviews discussing his philosophy of embracing death - 1995-1996
- Authors an outline for a book to be called Design for Dying - 1995
- Tim's website is updated daily as a kind of blog a few years before the word "blog" is created - 1996
- Tim dies on May 31, 1996 at the age of 75
- During his final moments, Tim says, "beautiful" to his son Zachary
- Due to Tim choosing not to use cryonic suspension in the final days of his life, seven grams of Tim's ashes are launched into space with the remains of 24 other intelligence agents - April 21, 1997
ACADEMIC PAPERS:
- The social dimensions of personality: groups structure and dynamics - Ph. D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, California. Timothy Leary - 1950
- Community Service and Social Research - Group Psychotherapy in a Church Program - Hubert Coffey, Mervin Freedman, Timothy Leary, Abel Ossorio - 1950
- The Interpersonal Dimension of Personality - Journal of Personality" Mervin B. Freedman, Timothy F. Leary, Abel G. Ossorio, Hubert S. Coffey - 1951
- The Interpersonal Dimension of Personality: II An Objective Study of Repression - Journal of Personality. Rolfe LaForge, Timothy F. Leary, Herbert Naboisek, Hubert S. Coffey, Mervin B. Freedman - 1954
- Interpersonal Diagnosis: Some Problems of Methodology and Validation. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology - Timothy Leary, Hubert S. Coffey - 1955
- Multilevel Measurement of Interpersonal Behavior: A Manual for the Use of the Interpersonal System of Personality - Psychological Consultation Service, Berkeley, California. Timothy Leary, Helen Lane, Anne Apfelbaum, Mary della Cioppa, Charlotte Kaufmann - 1956
BOOKS:
- The Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality - Timothy Leary - 1957
ACADEMIC PAPER:
- Investigations into the religious implications of consciousness expanding experience - Timothy Leary, et al - Harvard University - 1962
ACADEMIC PAPER:
- A New Behavior Change Program Using Psilocybin - Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Madison Presnel., Gunther Weil, Ralph Schwitzgebel, and Sarah Kinne - Psychotherapy - 1965
BOOK:
- The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead - Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert - 1964
BOOKS:
- Psychedelic Prayers - based on the Tao Te Ching - Timothy Leary - Poets Press - 1966
- Start Your Own Religion - Timothy Leary - Kriya Press - 1967
- The Politics of Ecstasy - Timothy Leary - 1968
- High Priest - Timothy Leary - 1968
BOOKS:
- Jail Notes - Timothy Leary, preface by Allen Ginsberg. Douglas Book Corp - 1970
- Confessions of a Hope Fiend - Timothy Leary - 1973
BOOKS:
- StarSeed - Timothy Leary - 1973
- Neurologic - Timothy Leary (with Joanna Leary) - 1973
- Terra II: A Way Out - Timothy Leary - 1974
- Mystery, magic & miracle: Religion in a post-Aquarian Age - Edward F. Heenan, Jack Fritscher, Timothy Leary - Prentice-Hall - 1973
- What Does WoMan Want? - Timothy Leary (1976) - New Falcon Press - 1988
- The Periodic Table of Evolution - Timothy Leary - 1977
- Exo-Psychology: A Manual on The Use of the Nervous System According to the Instructions of the Manufacturers - Timothy Leary - Starseed/Peace Press - 1977
- Neuropolitics : the Sociobiology of Human Metamorphosis - Timothy Leary; with Robert Anton Wilson & George A. Koopman - Starseed/Peace Press - 1977
- The Game of Life - Timothy Leary - Peace Press - 1979
- The Intelligence Agents - Timothy Leary - Peace Press - 1979
BOOKS:
- Changing My Mind Among Others - Timothy Leary - Prentice Hall Trade - 1982
- Flashbacks - Timothy Leary - Tarcher - 1983
SOFTWARE:
- Mind Mirror - Timothy Leary with Bob Dietz and Peter Van den Beemt - 1985
BOOKS:
- Info-Psychology - Timothy Leary - Falcon Press - (revision of Exo-Psychology) - 1987
- Chaos and Cyber Culture - Timothy Leary, edited by Michael Horowitz & Vicki Marshall - Ronin Publishing - 1994
- Surfing the Conscious Nets: A Graphic Novel - Timothy Leary and Robert Williams - Last Gasp - 1995
- Concrete & Buckshot: William S. Burroughs Paintings - Timothy Leary & Benjamin Weissman - Smart Art Press - 1996
BOOK:
- Design for Dying - Timothy Leary with R. U. Sirius - HarperCollins Publishers - 1997
