Here was a Harvard Professor, still wearing a suit, talking about taking drugs as a means of spiritual liberation. He was such a gigantic anomaly that many refused to understand him outright. Leary was an expert at sizing up the middle class, and being Irish made his romance with words and analysis all the more trenchant. Of course not. His whole focus was in the creation and inspiriting the individual.
Academia is designed to wear it down and wash it out.
The main problem with the idea of debunking identity in society, showing the arbitarity of personality constructs, is that too much money must change hands. Too many privileges up for grabs. No doctor wants to give up his nice parking space to an unwashed pillpopper. Don't even think about parking your car here. In fine, Transactional Psychology was really too revolutionary for most domesticated primates, and was consigned to the memory-hole once Leary started making media waves.