ABSTRACT

The final quote is from Timothy Leary (1964), the psychologist turned guru who, during the 1960s, first exhorted youth to 'tum on, tune in and drop out'. He and other members of the League of Spiritual Discovery (LSD) described how 'a psychedelic journey is a journey to new realms of consciousness. The scope and content of the experience is limitless, but its characteristic features are the transcendence of verbal concepts, of space-time dimensions, and of the ego or identity' (Leary et al., 1964: 11).