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 Audiobook (Free)

“[Don Lattin] has generated a stimulating and completely engrossing go through.” -Dennis McNally, writer of A Long Strange Trip: THE WITHIN Background of the Pleased Lifeless, and Desolate Angel: Jack port Kerouac, the Beat Era, and America

It is out of the question to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin’s The Harvard Psychedelic Membership. Huston Smith, tirelessly attempting to promote cross-cultural religious and religious tolerance. Richard Alpert, a.k.a. Ram Dass, inspiring decades with his mantra, “end up being here today.” Andrew Weil, undisputed leader from the alternative medicine trend. And, obviously, Timothy Leary, the charismatic, rebellious counter-culture icon and LSD master. Journalist Don Lattin supplies the funny, shifting inside story of the “Cambridge Quartet,” who crossed paths using the infamous Harvard Psilocybin Task in the early 60’s, and continued to pioneer the Mind/Body/Spirit movement that could popularize yoga, vegetarianism, and Eastern mysticism under western culture.