Flashbacks (book)

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.

Chapters

Foreword

Prologue

# Search for the Key
# Harvard Department of Visionary Experience
# Reunion with Widow Douglas
# Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico
# Harvard Drug Research
# Politics of Ecstasy
# Secrets of the Beatniks
# Getting High on Toil and Suffering
# Literary Elites and Black Hope
# Partner in Time
# Prisoners to Prophets
# Drugs Are the Origin of Religion and Philosophy
# Hostile Territories
# Miracle of Good Friday
# The Ultimate Aphrodisiac
# Ambushed by the Harvard Squares
# The Hollywood Connection
# Psychedelic Summer Camp
# Farewell to Harvard
# Earthly Paradise
# Islands in the Sun
# Life on a Grounded Space Colony
# Experiments at Millbrook
# Pranksters Come to Millbrook
# Himalayan Honeymoon
# Wisest Man in India
# Dissipative Structures
# Busted at Laredo
# The Peat Moss Caper
# Altered States
# Emergence of the Drug Culture
# Brotherhood of Eternal Love
# Cultural Evolution Versus Political Revolution
# Twenty Four Steps to Freedom
# The Exiles
# Landlocked in the Alps
# Captured in Kabul
# Folsom Prison
# Escape Plot
# Kidnapped by the Feds
# Freedom?

Epilogue

Afterword

Notes

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).