We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

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.