Editing Timothy Leary (section)

== Influence ==
Leary was an early influence on applying [[Game theory#General and applied uses|game theory]] to psychology, having introduced the concept to the [[International Association of Applied Psychology]] in 1961 at its annual conference in Copenhagen.<ref name="G. P. Putnam's Sons">{{cite book| last1 = Solomon | first1 = David| title = LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug| publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons| pages = 97–113| date = 1964| isbn = 129929507X }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Conners |first1=Peter |title=White Hand Society - The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg |publisher=City Lights Books |year=2010 |isbn=9780872865358 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780872865358/page/113 113–117] |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780872865358/page/113 }}</ref>{{sfnp|Leary|1982|p=45}}{{efn-ua|{{harvnb|Leary|1983|p=196}}: "Psychiatrist Eric Berne popularised my concepts of transactional analysis and game theory in ''Games People Play'', making accessible to the public concepts of behaviour-change that had formerly been reserved to the psychological priesthood."}} He was also an early influence on [[transactional analysis]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Timothy Leary|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-timothy-leary-1334884.html|author=Morton Schatzman|date=June 1, 1996|work=The Independent|access-date=August 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925115021/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-timothy-leary-1334884.html|archive-date=September 25, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Libertarian Psychology|url=https://mises.org/library/libertarian-psychology|author=Jeff Riggenbach|date=July 1, 2011|work=Mises Daily|access-date=August 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927132024/https://mises.org/library/libertarian-psychology|archive-date=September 27, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> His concept of the four [[The Sekhmet Hypothesis#Origins of the hypothesis|life scripts]], dating to 1951,{{sfnp|Leary|Freeman|Ossorio|Coffey|1951}} became an influence on transactional analysis by the late 1960s, popularized by Thomas Harris in his book, ''I'm OK, You're OK''.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Harris| first1 = Thomas| title = I'm Ok - You're Ok| publisher = Pan Books| date = 1973| isbn = 0-330-23543-5| url = https://archive.org/details/imokyoureok00thom}}</ref>

Many consider Leary one of the most prominent figures of the [[counterculture of the 1960s]], and since those times he has remained influential on [[pop culture]], literature, television,<ref name="G. P. Putnam's Sons" /> film and, especially, music.

Leary coined the influential term [[reality tunnel]], a kind of [[representative realism]]. The theory states that, with a subconscious set of mental filters formed from their beliefs and experiences, everyone interprets the same world differently, hence "Truth is in the eye of the beholder."{{efn-ua|{{harvnb|Higgs|2006|p=282}}: "[Robert Anton] Wilson is often credited with creating the phrase 'reality tunnels', but when asked about it, he is quick to give Leary the credit."}}

His ideas influenced the work of his friend [[Robert Anton Wilson]].<ref name="SLATE-20170103">{{cite news |last=Lattin |first=Don |title=The War on Drugs Halted Research Into the Potential Benefits of Psychedelics - Now it's finally starting up again. |url=https://slate.com/technology/2017/01/the-war-on-drugs-halted-research-into-the-potential-benefits-of-psychedelics.html |date=January 3, 2017 |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=January 27, 2020 }}</ref> This influence went both ways, with Leary taking just as much from Wilson. Wilson's 1983 book ''[[Prometheus Rising]]'' was an in-depth, highly detailed and inclusive work documenting Leary's [[8-Circuit Model of Consciousness|eight-circuit model of consciousness]]. Although the theory originated in discussions between Leary and a Hindu holy man at Millbrook, Wilson was one of its most ardent proponents and introduced it to a mainstream audience in 1977's bestselling ''Cosmic Trigger''. In 1989, they appeared together on stage in a dialog called ''The Inner Frontier''<ref>Lesie, Michele (1989) ''High Priest of LSD To Drop In''. ''[[The Plain Dealer|The Cleveland Plain Dealer]]''</ref> hosted by the [[Association for Consciousness Exploration]],<ref>''Local Group Hosts Dr. Timothy Leary'' by Will Allison (''The Observer'' September 29, 1989)</ref> the same group that had hosted Leary's first Cleveland appearance in 1979.<ref>''Two 60s Cult Heroes, on the Eve of the 80s'' by James Neff (''Cleveland Plain Dealer'' October 30, 1979)</ref><ref>''Timothy Leary: An LSD Cowboy Turns Cosmic Comic'' by Frank Kuznik. ''Cleveland'' magazine, November 1979.</ref>

World religion scholar [[Huston Smith]] was "turned on" by Leary after being introduced to him by [[Aldous Huxley]] in the early 1960s. Smith interpreted the experience as deeply religious, and described it in detailed religious terms in his book ''Cleansing of the Doors of Perception''.{{sfnp|Smith|2001|p={{page needed|date=July 2021}}}} Smith asked Leary whether he knew the power and danger of what he was conducting research with. In ''Mother Jones Magazine'', 1997, Smith commented:

<blockquote>First, I have to say that during the three years I was involved with that [[Harvard Psilocybin Project|Harvard study]], LSD was not only legal but respectable. Before Tim went on his unfortunate careening course, it was a legitimate research project. Though I did find evidence that, when recounted, the experiences of the Harvard group and those of mystics were impossible to tell apart—descriptively indistinguishable—that's not the last word. There is still a question about the truth of the disclosure. Was the drug-induced mystical experience just an emotional jag that messed up some neural connections? Or was it a genuine disclosure, an epiphany?<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Marilyn Berlin Snell |url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1997/11/world-religion-according-huston-smith?page=1 |title=The World of Religion According to Huston Smith |magazine=Mother Jones |access-date=May 19, 2014 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208111520/http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1997/11/world-religion-according-huston-smith?page=1 |archive-date=December 8, 2013 }}</ref></blockquote>