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ironic that many of the same people who excoriate Leary for beingirresponsible with the psychedelic movement just adore the legend ofKesey and his freely freaking pranksters. Just sayin’.A Fairy Tale Wedding… and DivorceDuring the summer of 1964, Leary fell in love with Nena vonSchlebrugge, a stunning model (If they had supermodels back then,she would have been at the top of the list) who had appeared on thecovers of Vogue, Mademoiselle and Harper’s Bazaar, all by age 16. Nowat 23, she was marrying the hero of east coast psychedelia.At the elegant wedding ceremony and party — in a scene thatencapsulates the various strands that would make up Leary’s socialcircles for the rest of his life — earnest intellectual psychedelic seekersand proto-hippies mingled with jet-setters and high fashionedbeautiful people, virtually all of them stoked on the LSD that wasbeing passed around. Charlie Mingus and Maynard Fergusonperformed with Miles Davis’s sidemen and the whole thing was filmedby legendary documentarian D.A. Pennebaker. The honeymoon,which took the newlyweds to Japan and India, was less fun. Theconnection the couple had found together in Millbrook seemed todisappear under the stress of travel. During an LSD trip in India,they experienced their alienation from each other as like a “thin filmseparating them.” Soon after returning, the couple would divorce,but not before engaging in a three way LSD experiment with RichardAlpert. This trip would clarify not only the separation between Learyand his wife, but also between Leary and his sidekick.Nena went on to marry noted Tibetan Buddhist scholar RobertThurman, who she also met at Millbrook. The couple had twochildren, one of them being the actress Uma Thurman.Eastern Wisdom — the India TripThe honeymoon trek to India (where he and Nena met up with RalphMetzner) would not be a total philosophic loss for Tim. He foundtime to write — reframing the Tao Te Ching as a poetic psychedelicmeditation for a book that would be published in 1966 as PsychedelicPrayers from the Tao Te Ching. He also met Sri Krishna Prem, a Hinduwise man who told Leary that his path lay not with him in the East,Timothy Leary’s Trip Thru Time41