LEARY, TIMOTHY - Oh, Pleasant Hope!

“Do not believe anything I say’, Timothy Leary warns the audience during his lecture in Kenfield, California in 1977. And rightly so. For most of the ideas expressed in this lecture may be entertaining and thought-provoking but have hardly any serious scientific value. Leary had been released from Folsom Prison the previous year after having shortened a 15-year sentence by becoming an FBI informant on the radical Weather Underground. Leary’s credibility and reputation as one of the spearheads of the counterculture had been severely damaged when he delivered his speech in Kenfield, which has now been released on cassette by Counter Culture Chronicles as Oh, Pleasant Hope!, a title which must have been borrowed from the final Blue Cheer album from 1971.” - Sea Urchin Editions.