Psychedelic Pioneers with Don Lattin

Mar 2, 2021

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Don Lattin, a former journalist, is author of Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge; Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today; 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; Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy; and Distilled Spirits: Getting High, and then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk.

Here he describes the extraordinary friendship of three seminal figures: Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception; Gerald Heard, author of The Five Ages of Man; and Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. In the early 1950s, these individuals were among the first to explore the potential of psychedelic drugs (mescaline, psilocybin, and LSD) as a tool for spiritual and psychological breakthroughs.

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(Recorded on February 10, 2021)

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Don Lattin, Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge – https://amzn.to/3bghUZZ

Don Lattin, Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today – https://amzn.to/3pv1YrS

Don Lattin, 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 – https://amzn.to/3qvahFn

Don Lattin, Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy – https://amzn.to/37pbIOi

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World – https://amzn.to/3qxCE5N

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited – https://amzn.to/3qxCE5N

Sherrie Lyons, Thomas Henry Huxley –

Gerald Heard, The Five Ages of Man – https://amzn.to/3bcsamc

Gerald Heard, The Source of Civilization –

Gerald Heard, The Riddle of the Flying Saucers –

Alison Falby, Between the Pigeonholes –

Gerald Heard, Dromenon –

Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body –

Jeffrey Kripal, Esalen –

Huston Smith, The World’s Religions –

William James, Varieties of Religious Experience –

Henry David Thoreau, Walden –

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance –

Gardner Murphy (Ed.), William James on Psychical Research –

Camille Flammarion, Death and Its Mystery –

Swami Vivekananda, Meditation and Its Methods –

Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel According to Sri Ramakrishna –

Christopher Isherwood, How to Know God –

Humphrey Osmond, Psychedelics –

Humphrey Osmond, How to Live With Schizophrenia –

Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception – https://amzn.to/3bh1r7L

Huston Smith, Cleansing the Doors of Perception –

Oscar Janiger, LSD Spirituality and the Creative Process –

Ian McCabe, Carl Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous –

Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell –

Laura Huxley, This Timeless Moment –

Aldous Huxley, Island –

Timothy Leary, The Psychedelic Experience –

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