The Harvard Psychedelic Club

Name: The Harvard Psychedelic Club
ISBN: 9780061655937

Don Lattin · 2010

The influences of Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weill in shaping and popularizing the "New Age" mind-body-spirit culture of the early sixties and into today.

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benbreenJan 2024
Author of the book under review here. AMA!
One thing I thought would be helpful is to link to the YouTube video described in the opening paragraph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMF-cyHAaSs
It's from a 1957 CBS documentary series called "Focus on Sanity" that featured interviews with Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard, among others. I found it fascinating and my questions about it were actually one of the motive forces for why I wrote the book.
I believe the recording was first brought to public attention by Don Lattin, whose books The Harvard Psychedelic Club (2010) and Distilled Spirits (2012) are both great.
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gruseomMay 2010
I'm going to hijack this thread to mention that if anyone is interested in Timothy Leary, I found the following two NPR programs fascinating:
http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/03/the-birth-of-new-age-ame...
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201001191000
They are both interviews with the author of a recent book called The Harvard Psychedelic Club in which Leary naturally features prominently.
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