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 /

Lattin, Don, 1953-

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. - 1st ed. - New York : HarperOne, c2010. - ix, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.

Four roads to Cambridge -- Turn on -- Sinners and saints -- Crimson tide -- Trouble in paradise -- If you come to San Francisco... -- Pilgrimage and exile -- After the ecstasy...four lives -- Healer, teacher, trickster, seeker.

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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Ram Dass.
Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996.
Smith, Huston.
Weil, Andrew.


Harvard University. Department of Social Relations --Biography.


Counterculture--History--United States--20th century.
Hallucinogenic drugs--Research--History--Massachusetts--Cambridge--20th century.
Hallucinogenic drugs--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Religion and sociology--History--United States--20th century.


United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

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