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.
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TextPublication details: New York : HarperOne, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0061655937 (hc.)
- 9780061655937 (hc.)
- Ram Dass
- Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
- Smith, Huston
- Weil, Andrew
- Harvard University. Department of Social Relations -- Biography
- Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- 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
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"[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.
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.