Vintage Playboy articles by Dr. Timothy Leary

[Preacher]

Foreword: mods, if you know a better forum for this thread, please move it to there.

As an early birthday present, my mother has ordered for me exactly what it says in the title. The first is from September 1966, and has the full official Playboy article with Leary in it. The second is from July 1971, and is a smaller article about Leary in Algeria, whilst he was a fugitive. I can scan these pages if the general interest in these forums is sufficient. What say y'all?

 

[Siever]

nice, but apparently I'm the only one who's interested

 

[window]

Yes please, I would like to read that too.

 

[mojave green]

Yes please

 

[Weird]

lol post is old dude was banned

 

[window]

Oh shit yeah, lol, damn cookies

 

[I wood]

Playboy had articles?
Next you will tell me penthouse had articles too.

 

[mojave green]

lol post is old dude was banned

Lol, this forum is OLD!

 

[Elmer Bud]

Full text of "Playboy Interview: Timothy Leary"


On a sunny Saturday afternoon in
1960, beside the swimming pool of his
rented summer villa in Cuernavaca, a
39-year-old American ate a handful of
odd-looking mushrooms he'd bought
from the witch doctor of a nearby vil-
lage. Within minutes, he recalled later,
he felt himself "being swept over the
edge of a sensory niagara into a mael-
strom of transcendental visions and hal-
lucinations. The next five hours could
be described in many- extravagant meta-
phors, but it was above all and without
question the deepest religious experi-
ence of my life." The implications of
that fateful first communion are as yet
unmeasured; that they are both far-
reaching and profound, however, is
generally conceded for the fungi
were the legendary "sacred mushrooms"
that have since become known, and
feared by many, as one of the psyche-
delic (literally, mind-manifesting) chem-
icals that have created a national fad
among the nation's young and a scandal
in the press.