Timothy Leary

'Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary' is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex, controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. Two conventional Harvard professors began probing the edges of consciousness in the '60s. Timothy Leary ended up in jail, while Richard Alpert became Ram Dass, a spiritual teacher.

The proposed metaphysical highs of psychedelic drugs versus the harsh actualities of concrete metropolitan life: these two opposing realities form the backdrop of an adolescent encounter told through still images and written narration.

Get to know the life and death of the controversial Harvard Professor and counterculture figure who became famous as an LSD advocate.

A sinister corporate plot to dump barrels of toxic waste into a town's water supply is put in jeopardy by a group of sky-diving teenagers.

An examination of the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith. Was Leary’s "perfect love" a CIA plant or was she simply a rich, beautiful young woman out for the adventure of a lifetime?