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The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America

Don Lattin

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Don Lattin recalls the creation of the Harvard Psilocybin Project (Harvard Psychedelic Club) in 1960-1961 by a group of four students interested in studying the effects of psychedelic drugs. The students, Timothy Leary, Andrew Weil, Huston Smith, and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) would later introduce Americans to mind expanding drugs, alternative healing and medicine, and world religions. Don Lattin discusses his book at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About the Authors

Don Lattin

Don Lattin is the author of Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge, Following our Bliss, and co-author with Richard Cimino of Shopping for Faith. He covered religion for the San Francisco Chronicle for close to twenty years and has taught writing and religion at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

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The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America

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