Reddit reviews Flashbacks

Read his autobiography, "Flashbacks". It's all in there.

https://www.amazon.com/Flashbacks-Timothy-Leary/dp/0874778700

He wrote an autobiography

Anatomy of a thread:

1. Karlibear points out the dangers of taking drugs from strangers, and says a non-expert could take a poisonous mushroom by mistake. This is true. Being someone who has studied mushrooms enough to know, I can identify the more desirable forms of psilocin-containing mushrooms, usually through bruising or spore prints. There are also mushrooms containing muscimol, and some of these can be poisonous, but some of them also contain atropine, a deliriant chemical that is also the antidote for muscarine, a dangerous poison. In Siberia there are native people who consume mushrooms containing muscimol for their psychedelic effects.

2. 853 makes the broad and stupid generalization that "people" don't ever take the wrong mushrooms, especially not the sterling intellectuals in colleges getting a high quality education.

Of course no one ever eats poison mushrooms. Right? It never ever ever happens.

3. nnnslogan says he remembers that the first unfortunate death among the hippies in the 60s, as reported in Timothy Leary's biography "Flashbacks" was from mushrooms that either had been poisoned or were poisonous mushrooms, which had been packed into pills (gel caps) for ingestion as a psychedelic. Again, it's been a long time since I read the book, and I don't have it any more, so I can't quote the exact passage, the name of the man, or even the exact year it happened. It could have been 1969 or 1972. Until I come across a copy of the book again, I can't tell you that, but it was the accidental ingestion of poison while trying to take a psychedelic mushroom. This is based on memory, which I have already pointed out.

4. 853 shows that he's not only an anonymous coward, but also a prick by insinuating that I'm making the story up by pointing out what he sees as an inconsistency in that I said the man was trying to ingest psychedelics and ended up poisoned trying to take mushrooms. "Then you changed your mind." Nope. I didn't change my mind. I must not have been clear enough in my statement.

5. I tried to clarify what I said, and mentioned the fact that it's been a while since I read the book. It's called Flashbacks by Timothy Leary so if you want to prove I have a bad memory when it comes to the details of the story, go buy it and then be a dick about it some more if I'm wrong, or eat your words if I'm right.

6. 853 shows how stupid he is by revealing that he's unaware of the fact that people have packed the plant material from psychedelic mushrooms into gel caps before. There are a variety of ways to ingest them. Some types are more foul tasting than others. Some people even eat them in peanut butter sandwiches.

Then you accuse me of changing the "typical college liberal" meme (you added the word typical, something that completely disagrees with the photograph used to represent the stereotype) to mean "I'll pop whatever pill is available." Then you say the "person" the meme depicts "does not do that." Unless you're talking about the person in the photograph who is used to represent the stereotype, you can't really say that because a meme is not a person. I don't know if you have such a solid concept in your mind of what every single person in a group that represents a stereotype is capable of, but let me assure you that some college students, whether liberal or conservative, do pop pills. How do I know? Because I've known plenty of college students who did.

Then you suggest that I'm "grasping at straws" and "embarrassing" myself. I don't feel particularly embarrassed. Sorry if you think your magical or psychic powers are so great that you think you know how I feel or what I think, but they're clearly not working. Maybe you need to cut down on the random pills you take from strangers.

7. I suggest that you're obviously stupid because you make broad generalizations, believe in fictional characters created for the purpose of memes, and can't follow what I'm telling you in clear English.

It's a shame about your brain. I suggest a little self-love.

8. You say "try to follow along" and then make up a magical fairy tale wherein you actually understood this thread instead of drooling over your keyboard and banging your head into the screen mindlessly. Then you suggest that I've been crying or that my butt is red and hurt. My ass is fine, no thanks to your bizarre sexual proclivities, and my eyes are dry and tired from a long day of Christmas doing my duties as a husband and father. I'm sure you're not familiar with these things being that you're probably just some kid experimenting with drugs and seriously overvaluing his own knowledge, which is probably only based on other people's research and all comes from the internet. Pick up a fucking book every once in a while. You might learn something.

Alan Watts' autobiography is In My Own Way. However, it is within The Joyous Cosmology that he details his psychedelic experiences(s), if I recall correctly.

Aldous Huxley details his psychedelic experience(s) in The Doors of Perception.

Edit: Timothy Leary's autobiography is Flashbacks.