"As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture-but until now the countercultural phenomenon has been one of history's great blind spots. Pundit and cyberguru R. U. Sirius brilliantly sets the record straight in this colorful, anecdotal, and wide-ranging study based on ideas developed by the late Timothy Leary with Dan Joy." "With scholarly erudition and gonzo passion, Sirius and Joy identify the distinguishing characteristics of countercultures, delving into history and myth to establish that, for all their surface differences, countercultures share important underlying principles. Ranging from the Socratic counterculture of ancient Athens and the outsider movements of Judaism, to the Taoist, Sufi, and Zen Buddhist countercultures, to the famous countercultural moments of the last century-Paris in the twenties, Haight-Ashbury in the sixties, Tropicalismo, women's liberation, punk rock-to the cutting-edge countercultures of the twenty-first century, Counterculture Through the Ages is an indispensable guidebook to where we've been ... and where we're going. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.