> Tim Leary was very impactful and in a negative way to the potential benefits of psychedelics because he got carried away with the tendency to turn the drugs i

> Tim Leary was very impactful and in a negative way to the potential benefits of psychedelics because he got carried away with the tendency to turn the drugs into a sort of religion. That’s not right. Leary recommended that people and their close associates start their own “religions”. This, he felt, was now possible because widely available holotropic substances could serve the gnostic (as in gnosis, not Christian Gnosticism) and mystical functions of these “religions”.