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Achieving Society, The (McClelland), 44
Acid Rock, 127
“Acid Tests,” 135, 202
Afghanistan, 198
Age of Aquarius, 3, 136
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 66–68
Alexander, George, 48
Algeria, 171–72, 175, 199
Alpert, George, 6, 9, 100
Alpert, Leonard, 6
Alpert, Richard (Ram Dass), 1, 2, 5–13, 43, 51–56, 97–106, 98, 111–18, 126–37, 149–58, 187–96, 215, 218–19 Andrew Weil and, 3, 57–58, 59–60, 86–87, 144–45, 187, 188, 195–96
Be Here Now, 7, 157
Caroline Winter and, 126–31, 194
charities and volunteer projects, 157, 189–92
as columnist, P. O. Frisco, 136–37
Concord Prison Project and, 72
culture of the sixties and, 85
drug culture, withdrawal from, 178
dying on Maui, 55–56
education, 5–10
fame of, 191
family and wealth, 5–7, 9, 12, 100, 130–31
in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 118, 126–30
at Harvard, 5, 9, 52–53, 57–58
Harvard Crimson articles on, 86–99
Harvard faculty meeting about Alpert/Leary psychedelic research (1962), 88–91
Harvard firing of, 7, 62, 93–94, 96–97, 99
Harvard Psilocybin Project, 57–58
historical importance of, 215–22
homosexuality of, 7, 9–11, 102, 131, 192–93
Human Be-In and, 119
impact of psychedelics on, 3
India/Nepal trip (1967), 149–53
India trip (1970), 154–57
Jim Fadiman and, 10–11
Joya and, 192
lecture series, 133–34
lifestyle, 51–52, 107
LSD-religious conference (1966), 140
Maharaji and, 149–53, 156–57
marijuana use, 8
Mexico and Caribbean islands, ejection from, 111
Millbrook bowling alley experiment, 116
at Millbrook estate, 111–18
Mirabai Bush and, 157–58
mother’s death, 131, 151
Newton, Massachusetts, Kenwood Avenue home, 99–106
personality and character, 8, 9, 11, 51–52, 58, 189, 191, 192
political activism/social movements and, 138–39
psychedelic experience (first), February 1961, 54–56
psychedelic philosophy/mission, 50, 52, 137
psychedelic use/acid trips/LSD and, 73, 108, 115–17, 119, 126, 133–35, 136–37, 202, 227
Ralph Waldo Emerson and, 105
as Ram Dass, 11, 118, 148, 153–57, 158, 178, 187, 197, 218–19
“Reaching Out” program, 191–92
as revolutionary, 50, 97
Ronnie Winston and, 59–60, 92–95, 101
as The Seeker, 2, 215
Seva Foundation, 157
sex and, 3, 9–10, 116, 117, 153, 192–95
spirituality/religious experience, 73, 158
Stephen Levine and, 120
stroke and health problems, 187, 188–89, 219
Timothy Leary and, 38, 51–56, 171, 178, 201
Timothy Leary, estrangement from, 7, 116–18, 128–29, 131, 198, 199
Timothy Leary’s children and, 53, 98, 102, 116, 117
Timothy Leary’s dying and, 196–97
UC Berkeley, position at, 2, 53
Vik Lovell and, 8–9
in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, 102, 107–10
Alpert, William, 6
Altamont Speedway concert, 174–75
alternative or integrative medicine, 2, 182, 217
American life/culture. See also drug culture addiction and drug abuse, 216–17
Age of Aquarius, 136
baby boomers, 101, 189, 215
birth control pill and, 101
fifties social conditions, 1
film and theater, changes in, 26
medicine, holistic reformation of, 2, 21, 218
post–World War II, 17
psychedelic culture, continuing
impact of, 2–3, 182, 183, 221–22
psychotherapy in, 17
Riesman’s “other-directed” and “Inner-directed” character types, 26
seventies drug culture, 3
sixties, counterculture, 2, 8, 11n, 97, 101, 120, 135–36, 190, 215, 221
sixties, deconstructing a decade, 220–22
sixties, political activism/social
movements, 120, 121, 171, 175, 190
sixties, progressive vision of, 221–22
sixties social conditions, 1
Andover Newton Theological Seminary, 73, 84
antinomianism, 139
Ayers, Bill, 170
baby boomers, 21, 101, 189, 215
Baez, Joan, 126, 139
Baker, Richard (Baker-Roshi), 139–40
Barritt, Brian, 177, 178, 179
Barron, Frank, 18, 20, 38, 48, 140, 201
Beatles, 127, 132 Abbey Road, 174
breakup, 174
“Come Together,” 2, 174
“Give Peace a Chance,” 174
“Revolution,” 190
Timothy Leary and, 2, 174
“Tomorrow Never Knows,” 2
Be Here Now (Ram Dass), 7, 157
Berkeley, California. See also University of California, Berkeley Claremont Hotel, discussion on psychedelics (1990), 201
“People’s Park,” 173
Richard Alpert as Ram Dass in, 153
Richard Alpert/Caroline Winter living in, 136
Timothy Leary in, 13–14, 133
Berkeley Barb, 173
Berne, Eric, 69
Big Brother and the Holding Company, 136
Black Panthers, 171, 172, 174–75
Boston Herald, 91
Boston Psychopathic Institute, 211–12
Boston University Good Friday Experiment, 73–81
Marsh Chapel, 73, 74–75, 77
School of Theology, 76
Bowen, Michael, 122
Brand, Stewart, 11n
Brave New World (Huxley), 108, 109
Brook Farm, 42, 105
Brotherhood of Eternal Love, 172–73
Bruce, Lenny, 128
Buddha (Prince Gautama Siddhartha), 154
Buddhism Huston Smith and Zen, 159–63
koans, 161
satori, 159
seekers’ trip to India (1970), 154–57
S. N. Goenka and, 155
Vipassana, 155
Bundy, McGeorge, 85, 90
Burroughs, William, 54, 102
Bush, Mirabai, 154, 157–58, 158, 189, 190, 191
Cargill, Melissa, 128
Carmichael, Leonard, 5–6
Castalia Foundation, 112, 115
Castaneda, Carlos, 164
Center for Contemplative Mind, 157
Center for Integrative Medicine, 181, 218
Center for Mindfulness, 155
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 109–10 LSD and, 115
psychological research at Harvard, 110, 110n, 211–13
surveillance of Leary and followers, 111
Chase, Alston, 110n
Chemical Ecstasy: Psychedelic Drugs and Religion (Clark), 84
“Chicago Seven” trial, 174
Christianity and Crisis, 141
Clark, Walter Houston, 50, 84
Cleaver, Eldridge, 171, 172
cocaine, 197, 198, 217
Cohen, Sidney, 67, 140
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 105
College of the Holy Cross, 16
Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service (Bush and Ram Dass), 157
Concord Prison Project, 61–62, 68–72, 78
Confessions of a Hope Fiend (Leary), 177, 198
Connally, Ben, 175
Connally, John, 175
Cox, Harvey, 78, 83
Crosby, David, 101
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Cuernavaca, Mexico, 37–38
curandera, 38, 39, 165–66, 167
“Day When LSD Is Like Aspirin, A” (San Francisco Chronicle), 133
Dele, Bison, 207
Delta Chemical, 58
Dettering, Dick, 38, 39
Dettering, Ruth, 38, 39, 40
Devils of Loudun (Huxley), 64
Dewey, John, 30
Dharma Bums, The (Kerouac), 160
DMT (dimethyltryptamine), 102, 132
Dohrn, Bernadette, 170
Doors of Perception (Huxley), 25, 36, 45, 46, 56, 65, 166–67, 213
drug culture. See also psychedelics addiction and drug abuse in America, 216–17
Alpert and spread of, 2
Altamont Speedway concert, 174–75
amphetamine era, 143
bonding between users, 50, 53, 97–106
changing of conventional ideas
about mind, body, spirit, 3, 21, 41, 220–22
communes and communal living, 99–106
damaged children of the sixties and, 216
higher consciousness movements and, 109, 154
historical precedent, 105
Human Be-In, 119–21
impact on society, 220–22
Nixon’s “war on drugs,” 147, 163, 214
nonconformist mentality and, 26
San Francisco, 1960s, 119–48
as social movement, 99, 171
spiritual seekers and, 216
spread of, major cities, 2
Timothy Leary and conservative reaction against, 214–15
Timothy Leary blamed for casualties of, 202
Woodstock, 175
Dunlap, Barbara, 99
Dunlap, Foster, 99, 101
Dyer, Wayne, 189n
Ecstasy (MDMA), 217
“Egg on My Beard” (Ram Dass), 192
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 105, 106
Emotional Intelligence (Goleman), 155
Engelbart, Douglas, 11n
Erikson, Erik, 18
ethnobotany, 164
Fadiman, Jim, 9–10, 11n, 12
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 199–200
Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 146–47
Ferguson, Flo, 114
Ferguson, Maynard, 54, 114, 130
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 176
Fillmore Auditorium, 126–27, 128, 129–30
Flashbacks (Leary), 14, 187
Food and Drug Administration, 90
Forte, Robert, 201–4
Freedom of Information Act, 111
Free Speech Movement, 86, 190
Fuller, Margaret, 105
Garcia, Jerry, 135
Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In, 119–21, 127, 135
Ginsberg, Allen, 2, 54, 121, 128, 139–40, 176, 199 close connection with Harvard Psychedelic Club, 2, 129–30
homosexuality of, 102, 125, 194
Human Be-In and, 119–21, 122–23
Peter Orlovsky and, 102
psilocybin use, 129–30
Timothy Leary and, 2, 54, 119, 121–23, 125, 129, 139, 176, 199
Glass Bead Game, The (Hesse), 112
Goenka, S. N., 155
Goldstein, Joseph, 154
Goleman, Daniel, 154, 155–56
“Gonna Wait ’til the Midnight Hour” (song), 126
Good Friday Experiment, 62, 73–81, 84
Goto Roshi, 160–62
Graham, Bill, 127
Grateful Dead, 2, 8, 119, 126, 127–28, 135, 136, 137, 138
Great Society (band), 127
Grinspoon, Lester, 147–48
Gurdjieff, G. I., 113
Hagenbach, Dieter, 178
Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, 143
Harcourt-Smith, Joanna, 198, 199
Harvard and the Unabomber (Chase), 110n
Harvard Crimson, 59, 85–87 Andrew Weil’s story on Alpert and Leary, 86–87, 92–99, 148
Robert E. Smith’s story on Alpert and Leary, 87–92
Harvard Divinity School, 77, 78, 84 Ralph Waldo Emerson address (1838), 105
Harvard Lampoon, 86
Harvard Psilocybin Project, 41, 48, 53, 57–58, 61 Aldous Huxley, Humphrey Osmond, and, 85
Andrew Weil’s campaign against, 60, 86–87, 92–99
bonding between users, 99
deal not to involve undergraduates, 57–58, 59, 86–87, 94
Harvard faculty meeting about Alpert/Leary research (1962), 88–91
participants, 54, 104, 110n, 129, 196, 197
Harvard Psychedelic Club. See also Alpert, Richard (Ram Dass); Leary, Timothy; Smith, Huston; Weil, Andrew baby boomers and, 215
common theme of redefining nature of reality, 214–15
differences between members, 81
historical importance of, 83, 215–22
study of human consciousness by, 205
surviving members, 219
westward exodus to San Francisco, 118
Harvard University Andrew Weil arrives (1960), 25–26, 85, 220
Center for Personality Research, 9, 20–21, 26, 57–58, 87, 96
CIA research at, 110n, 211–13
Concord Prison Project, 61–62, 68–72
David McClelland at, 9, 20–21
Department of Social Relations, 5, 44, 68–69, 88
founding of, 106
Good Friday Experiment, 73–81
Herbert Kelman at, 19
Kennedy administration and, 1
Medical School, 96, 143
President Pusey, 90, 93
psychological inquiry at, history, 42–43, 89–90
Richard Alpert as assistant professor at, 5, 52–53
Richard Alpert fired (1963), 7, 62, 93–94, 96–97, 99
Timothy Leary fired (1963), 62, 96–97, 99
Timothy Leary hired, 20
twentieth anniversary of Albert/Leary firing, 74, 201
University Health Services, 90
winter of 1960–61, 1
“wondrous paganism” at, 42
Hauchard, Michel-Gustave, 176, 177
Healthy Aging (Weil), 185
Heard, Gerald, 30–32, 33, 66, 67, 72, 160
Hells Angels, 9
heroin, 54, 71, 103, 120, 177, 178–79, 198
Hesse, Hermann, 112–13
Hinduism, 149–51, 155
Huston Smith and, 160, 207–8
Hinkle, Warren, 121
Hitchcock, Peggy, 102–3, 107, 109, 112, 114
Hitchcock, Thomas, 102, 112
Hitchcock, William, 102, 112, 114, 133
Hofmann, Albert, 62–63, 164, 177–78, 202, 211, 228
Hoover, J. Edgar, 132
Hopper, Dennis, 183
How Can I Help? (Ram Dass), 188
human-potential movement, 190, 221, 228
Huxley, Aldous, 82, 160 Brave New World, 108
Concord Prison Project and, 72
death of, 220
Doors of Perception, 25, 36, 45, 46, 56, 65, 166–67, 213
Gerald Heard and, 31, 32
Harvard Psilocybin Project and, 85
Humphrey Osmond, LSD, and, 64–65
Huston Smith and, 2, 32–33, 35–36
Island, 108, 109, 112
LSD trip when dying, 220
mescaline and, 25, 36, 46, 56, 58, 65, 213
MIT lectures, 2, 35, 44
psychedelic philosophy/mission, 46
term psychedelic and, 65–66
Timothy Leary and, 45–47, 67, 85
Huxley, Sir Julian, 64
Huxley, Laura, 176, 220
Huxley, Maria, 32–33, 64–65
Hyde, Robert, 211–12
I’m OK, You’re OK (Berne), 69
India Bodh Gava, 154
Huston Smith trip (1957), 35
Khumba Mela festival, 155
Richard Alpert’s journey and return as Ram Dass (1967), 118, 149–53
Richard Alpert’s second journey (1970), 154–57
spiritual seekers and, 154–57, 22
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Timothy Leary/Ralph Metzger trip (1965), 116, 169–70
Institute of Current World Affairs, 165
International Federation for Internal Freedom, 50, 99
International Foundation for Advanced Study, Menlo Park, 11n
Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality, The (Leary), 19, 20
Island (Huxley), 108, 109, 112
James, Henry, Jr., 42–43
James, Henry, Sr., 42
James, William, 42–43, 84, 90
Jefferson Airplane, 2, 126, 127
Jobs, Steve, 11n
John Handy Quintet, 127
Joplin, Janis, 136
Joya (spiritual channeler), 192
Kabat-Zinn, Jon, 155
Kaczynski, Theodore (the Unabomber), 110n
Kaiser Hospital, Oakland, 18, 20 Leary/Barron study (1955), 18
Kathmandu, Nepal, 149–50
Katz, Michael, 197
Kelman, Herbert, 19, 87, 88–89
Kennedy, John F., 1, 44, 46, 85, 86, 90, 129, 220 assassination of, 110, 220
Mary Pinchot Meyer affair, LSD, and, 109–10
Kesey, Ken, 8, 176 “Acid Tests,” 135, 202
Merry Pranksters and, 8, 11n, 135, 202
political activism/social movements and, 138–39
Kessler, Stephen, 141
Kleps, Art, 83
Knauth, Lothar, 38
Kremp, Sabine, 182–83
Krishna Das, 154
KSAN FM radio, 174
Kyoto, Japan, 159–63 Myoshinji Temple, 160
Lazarus, Father, 208–9
Leary, Abigail Ferris, 15–16
Leary, Jack, 13, 14–15, 20, 37, 53, 54, 102, 117, 172, 175, 199, 200, 202–3
Leary, Marianne Busch, 13–14, 17
Leary, Susan, 13, 14, 20, 53, 98, 98, 117, 132, 202–3
Leary, Timothy, 1, 2, 13–20, 37–44, 45, 61–72, 82–83, 107–10, 119–26, 169–79, 173, 196–204, 197 Albert Hofmann and, 177–78
alcohol and, 14, 15–16, 43, 53, 67
Aldous Huxley and, 45–47, 49
Algeria and Afghanistan, flight to, 171–72, 175, 198, 199
Allen Ginsberg and, 2, 54, 119, 121–23, 125, 129, 139, 176, 199