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#Timothy-Leary
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
LSD and the Summer of Love
The decade’s radical movements that were influenced by LSD helped with the expansion of women’s and minority rights, with the most effective anti-war movement in American history, and with new genres of literature and music. The cultural, psychedelic, and geographical locus was…
Leary and the polarization over LSD
The late 1960s made the drug controversial because of the hippie movement and its mass unsupervised drug experimentation. The public controversy, and Leary’s popularity in the media, contributed to a polarized view about the drug. People like Leary, who felt it was his historic…
Erik Davis - On Psychedelics
1960s literature on psychedelics
Once again, we have a reverberation with the 1960s, when many people first heard about mind-expanding chemicals through the trip manual The Psychedelic Experience (1963), written by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner. This book mapped the dynamics of psychedelic…
The good friday (or marsh chapel) experiment
In essence, Griffiths and his team had simply restaged one of the most famous psychedelic studies of the 1960s: the Good Friday (or Marsh Chapel) experiment. Led by a Harvard graduate student of theology named Walter Pahnke, with support from Timothy Leary, the Good Friday…