Raise a glass, drop a tab of acid or take a deep hit on your bong in honor of the great Timothy Leary, the counterculture guru and psychedelics spokesman who lived one of the most outrageous lives of the 20th century, born on October 22, 1920.

The revolutionary philosopher was once called the “most dangerous man in America” by Richard Nixon.

Previously on Dangerous Minds

Carl Sagan writes to Timothy Leary in prison, 1974

Timothy Leary: New religion will be the religion of intelligence

Timothy Leary and William Gibson in conversation

Below, Leary’s death foretold in 1968, with the Moody Blues’ “Legend of A Mind” (aka “Timothy Leary’s Dead”):