My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

S. e. Leary later wrote:

We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the 21st century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s.

President Richard Nixon once described Leary as "the most dangerous man in America". During a time when drugs such as LSD and psilocybin were legal Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Timothy Francis Leary (October 22 1920 – May 31 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs.