The Harvard Psychedelic Club, Don Lattin
The Harvard Psychedelic Club, Don Lattin
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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

Author: Don Lattin

Narrator: John Pruden

Unabridged: 7 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/28/2017

Synopsis

“[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 AmericaIt 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.

About Don Lattin

Don Lattin is one of the nation's leading journalists covering alternative and mainstream religious movements and figures in America. His work has appeared in dozens of U.S. magazines and newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, where he covered the religion beat for nearly two decades. Lattin has also worked as a consultant and commentator for Dateline, Primetime, Good Morning America, Nightline, Anderson Cooper 360, and PBS's Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. He is the author of Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge, and Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today, and is the coauthor of Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marvin on January 07, 2010

The definitive book of the psychedelic movement of the 60s has yet to be written. Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test comes awfully close. But while it succeeds in capturing the mood and times, it doesn't give you a sense of where the movement came from and where it went. The best book as ye......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on June 13, 2010

While the content of The Harvard Psychedelic Club was certainly intriguing, Lattin made poor use of his resource material and produced a mess of a book. A generous portion of text is invented dialogue and Lattin seems undecided about whether he is writing a history of 60's counertculture or a chatty......more

Goodreads review by Ken on October 22, 2011

The subtitle of this book is especially revealing; "How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America".... That about sums up the thesis of the book. I was familiar with Ram Dass(Richard Alpert) and Tim Leary, but I was unfamiliar with......more

Goodreads review by Bob on March 02, 2018

Don Lattin presents us with the story of the early days of psychedelic research as seen through the lens of the Harvard Psilocybin Project conducted by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass). Also there were Huston Smith who became an internationally renowned expert on world religions and A......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Tobias Christian on July 29, 2023

An interesting Revolution that is described of four researchers trying to expand their knowledge by taking drugs. Well-described and well-documented. Interesting read. #blinkist......more

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