The Harvard Psychedelic Club, (Paperback)

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While undertaking a course on the psychology of religious conversion at the Graduate Theological Union, Bay Area religion writer Don Lattin cast back in his memory for his own “personal conversion narrative.” Like many of his generation, Lattin had experimented with psychedelics with—in retrospec...

from Sullywriter

It's quite the trip!

from Citizenjoyce

This is a very interesting book chronicling the the lives of the four men most involved in the popularization of psychedelic drugs. I like the way Lattin presents them as archetypes: Leary, the Trickster; Ram Dass, the Seeker; Smith, the Teacher; and Weil, the Healer. Weil comes off very poorly a...

from auntmarge64

This is an entertaining, informative, and relatively brief (228 pages of text) overview of the interactions of four men involved in the Harvard psychedelic drug trials of the early 1960s. Timothy Leary is probably the most infamous, but Ram Dass (né Richard Alpert) has had a more lasting and posi...

from bodhisattva

[[learytimothy::Timothy Leary]], [[dassram::Ram Das (or Richard Alpert)]], [[smithhuston:: Huston Smith]], and [[weilandrew::Andrew Weil]] -- all at Harvard in 1960. A good look at there and then.