In 1959 Timothy Leary moved his family to Cambridge, and began his career as a professor, lecturing on psychology at Harvard. Leary fit the perfect physical description of a college professor except for his white tennis sh

Towards the end of 1969, Leary’s time was monopolized by court appearances and other legal matters. Leary was retried for the Mexico case as well as for a new case concerning roaches found in his car. In both cases Leary took the blame for actions that were not his own. His son and daughter were actually guilty of the criminal acts but Leary wished to protect them. Facing life inprisonment, Leary escaped from his minimum-security prison by climbing over a fence. (Leary 286) Leary took flight to Switzerland but was recaptured and sent back to prison. In 1976 Leary was finally released when he got a new judge who was more sympathetic. These incidents all but ended Leary’s career as an activist for mind change drugs .

In 1960 Leary went with his family to Cuernavaca, Mexico. It was on this trip that Leary had his fist experience with mushrooms. Three others joined him on his first trip and two friends observed. According to Leary, when the mushrooms first began to take effect, he had sudden revelations about how ignorant his way of thinking had always been. “We discover abruptly that we have been programmed all these years, that everything we accept as reality is just social fabrication.” His experience with the mushrooms led him to believe that the brain was an underused biocomputer of which we humans do not fully access. (Leary 33)

oes, which he wore everywhere. His focus of teaching immediately strayed from the normal places of study like Freudian oriented clinics and hospitals, to areas of greater challenge like skid-rows, ghetto community centers, jails, Catholic Orphanages and other places he felt were natural habitats of humans. Leary was interested in changing the way people interacted with each other and the thought that some psychological problems could be resolved by getting rid of imprinting that has been imposed on every person’s mind from the structure of society. Leary’s interest in changing the ways of human behavior was shared by a fellow colleague, named Richard Alpert. Alpert spoke to Leary of “magical mushrooms” that he had taken in Mexico and the possibility that they may be the key he and Leary where searching for in their studies.

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