Flashbacks (book)

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Flashbacks is Timothy Leary's auto-biography published in 1983. It has two parts. Part one is titled "Metamorphosis: The End of the Old" and contains chapters 1 through 21. Part two is titled "Paedomorphosis--Juvenilization" and contains chapters 22 through 41.

Flashbacks was reprinted in 1990 and 1997. This new edition has a foreword written by William S. Burroughs, and a new afterword written by Leary.

Flashbacks is also the title of the double cassette album which contains Timothy Leary reading selections of the book. It was published in 1989 by Dove Books on Tape, Inc and has ISBN 1-55800-186-7.

[edit] Chapters

Foreword

Prologue

1. Search for the Key
2. Harvard Department of Visionary Experience
3. Reunion with Widow Douglas
4. Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico
5. Harvard Drug Research
6. Politics of Ecstasy
7. Secrets of the Beatniks
8. Getting High on Toil and Suffering
9. Literary Elites and Black Hope
10. Partner in Time
11. Prisoners to Prophets
12. Drugs Are the Origin of Religion and Philosophy
13. Hostile Territories
14. Miracle of Good Friday
15. The Ultimate Aphrodisiac
16. Ambushed by the Harvard Squares
17. The Hollywood Connection
18. Psychedelic Summer Camp
19. Farewell to Harvard
20. Earthly Paradise
21. Islands in the Sun
22. Life on a Grounded Space Colony
23. Experiments at Millbrook
24. Pranksters Come to Millbrook
25. Himalayan Honeymoon
26. Wisest Man in India
27. Dissipative Structures
28. Busted at Laredo
29. The Peat Moss Caper
30. Altered States
31. Emergence of the Drug Culture
32. Brotherhood of Eternal Love
33. Cultural Evolution Versus Political Revolution
34. Twenty Four Steps to Freedom
35. The Exiles
36. Landlocked in the Alps
37. Captured in Kabul
38. Folsom Prison
39. Escape Plot
40. Kidnapped by the Feds
41. Freedom?

Epilogue

Afterword

Notes

[edit] Publishing Details

Flashbacks was published by Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, on May 1, 1983 (hardcover, ISBN 0-87477-177-3). Reprinted in 1990 by Tarcher (paperback, ISBN 0-87477-497-7). Reprinted in 1997 by Tarcher (paperback, ISBN 0-87477-870-0).