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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Don Lattin: The Harvard Psychedelic Club (2010, HarperOne)

256 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2010 by HarperOne.

ISBN:
978-0-06-165593-7
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OCLC Number:
419856438

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2 stars (1 review)

Lattin examines the lives and times of four men--Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), Andrew Weil, and Huston Smith--whose paths crossed in the 1960s at Harvard, and who consequently launched the mind, body, spirit movement.

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I was hoping for a more in depth journey of each of their experiences with psychedelics, however this essentially turned out to be a thinly written biography of those involved. I say thinly written because it had the potential to explore them in more detail, but I was pretty bored in the last third of the book. The book was lent to me so I'm kind of glad I didn't pay for it.

Subjects

  • Leary, Timothy, -- 1920-1996
  • Ram Dass
  • Smith, Huston
  • Weil, Andrew
  • Harvard University. -- Dept. of Social Relations -- Biography
  • Hallucinogenic drugs -- Research -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- 20th century
  • Hallucinogenic drugs -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • Religion and sociology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980