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] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read.” —Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of the four...
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“[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read.” —Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin’s The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Huston Smith, tirelessly working to promote cross-cultural religious and spiritual tolerance. Richard Alpert, a.k.a. Ram Dass, inspiring generations with his mantra, “be here now.” Andrew Weil, undisputed leader of the holistic medicine revolution. And, of course, Timothy Leary, the charismatic, rebellious counter-culture icon and LSD guru. Journalist Don Lattin provides the funny, moving inside story of the “Cambridge Quartet,” who crossed paths with the infamous Harvard Psilocybin Project in the early 60’s, and went on to pioneer the Mind/Body/Spirit movement that would popularize yoga, vegetarianism, and Eastern mysticism in the Western world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061655944 (0061655945)
ASIN: 61655945
Publish date: January 4th 2011
Publisher: HarperOne
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Interesting characters and a fascinating era. Undergraduate-caliber writing and analysis but worth reading if it's an era or topic of interest.
Behind the scenes of the 60s--an interesting book.
The definitive book of the psychedelic movement of the 60s has yet to be written. Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test comes awfully close. But while it succeeds in capturing the mood and times, it doesn't give you a sense of where the movement came from and where it went. The best book as ye...