Timothy Leary began as a highly respected mid-century clinical psychologist who helped design the personality tests the penal system used, then morphed into one of the most polarizing lightning rods of the 1960s counterculture, a man a sitting U.S. president called the most dangerous man in America. This episode traces his chaotic chronological journey far beyond the famous slogans and tie-dye caricatures.

From rigid, traditional beginnings through controversial Harvard experiments, a surreal global exile as an international fugitive, and a late embrace of early internet cyberculture, his life defies simple categorization.

• His strict Irish Catholic upbringing, West Point court-martial, and rise as a data-driven psychologist who developed the interpersonal circumplex.
• His 1960 mushroom experience in Mexico, the Harvard Psi ...