Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

male, deceased (1996)
1960s counterculture, Turn on, tune in, drop out, lsd, convert to Hinduism, Hindu, Space burials…psychedelic drug, Psychedelic researcher, Psychedelicadvocatesandproponents
Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and...
Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

male, deceased (1963) (Kamuela, Hawaii, United States)
Humanist, Throat cancer death, poet, American, parapsychology, philosophical…Psychedelicadvocatesandproponents
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family....
Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey

male, deceased (2001)
beatnik, author, Beat Generation, Beat writer, California writer, Essayist…Psychedelicadvocatesandproponents
Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 - November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest",...
Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson

male, deceased (2007)
Occult writer, Discordians, Essayist, philosopher, Conspiracy theory, anarchist…Psychedelicadvocatesandproponents
Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (January 18, 1932 - January 11, 2007) was a prolific American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist,...
Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

male, deceased (2005)
Gonzo journalism, suicide by firearm in the United States, From Louisville, Kentucky, tax resister, Psychedelicadvocatesandproponents, Kentucky writer
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting in which...
Ram Dass

Ram Dass

male, 78 years old
Dharmic writer, Wesleyan University alumni, from the United States, University of California, Berkeley faculty, American metaphysics writer, Bisexual writer…psychedelic drug, Psychedelicadvocatesandproponents, Psychedelic researcher
Dr. Richard Alpert, also known as Baba Ram Dass, is a contemporary spiritual teacher who wrote the 1971 bestseller "Be Here Now". He is well-known...
Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

male, deceased (2000)
Ethnobotanist, hallucinogens, psychedelic, Shamanism, writer, Psychedelic researcher…Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants, Psychedelicadvocatesandproponents, Psychedelic Society
Terence Kemp McKenna was a writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist. He is noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based...

Ralph Metzner

male
writer, Starwood Festival, WinterStar Symposium, Psychedelicadvocatesandproponents, psychedelic, yoga…Psychedelic researcher
Ralph Metzner Ph.D., born 1936 in Germany, is an American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard...
Paul Krassner

Paul Krassner

male, 77 years old
tax resister, New York Press, Psychedelicadvocatesandproponents, counterculture, American, the realist
Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932) was the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine "The Realist", first published in...
Huston Smith

Huston Smith

male, 90 years old
Autodidact, The World's Religions, Huston Cummings Smith, Religious studies, Psychedelicadvocatesandproponents, Religious writer…Psychedelic researcher
Huston Cummings Smith (born May 31, 1919) is among the preeminent religious studies scholars in the United States. His work, "The Religions of Man"...