Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years

Early Writings on LSD and Psilocybin with Richard Alpert, Huston Smith, Ralph Metzner, and others

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2014
Park Street Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-62055-235-3 (ISBN)

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The first collection of Leary's writings devoted entirely to the research phase of his career, 1960 to 1965.

On May 27, 1963, Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert were dismissed from Harvard University's Psychology Department--a watershed event marking the moment when psychedelic drugs were publicly demonized and driven underground. Today, little is known about the period in the early 1960s when LSD and psilocybin were not only legal but also actively researched at universities.

Presenting the first collection of Leary's writings devoted entirely to the research phase of his career, 1960 to 1965, this book offers rare articles from Leary's time as a professor in Harvard's Psychology Department, including writings from the Harvard Psilocybin Project, the Concord Prison Project, and the Good Friday Experiment. These essays--coauthored with Richard Alpert, Huston Smith, Ralph Metzner, and other psychedelic research visionaries--explore the nature of creativity and the therapeutic, spiritual, and religious aspects of psilocybin and LSD. Featuring Leary's scientific articles and a rare account of his therapeutic approach, "On Existential Transaction Theory," the book also includes Leary's final essay from his time at Harvard, "The Politics of Consciousness," as well as controversial articles published shortly after his dismissal.

With an editor's introduction examining the Harvard Drug Scandal and a critical preface to each essay, this book of seminal early writings by Leary--appearing in unabridged form--shows why he quickly became an articulate spokesperson for consciousness expansion and an iconic figure for the generation that came of age in the 1960s.

James Penner, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Southern California, he is the author of Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture. He lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Which Leary Now? by James Penner

Introduction by James Penner

Part 1
The Trip in Cuernavaca
Early Utopian Writings on Psilocybin

1 Leary’s First Article on Psilocybin
How to Change Behavior

2 On Existential Transaction Theory
The Diagnosis of Behavior and the Diagnosis of Experience

3 On Set and Setting Theory
Reactions to Psilocybin Ad ministered in a Supportive Environment By Timothy Leary, George H. Litwin, and Ralph Metzner

4 Psychedelic Drugs and Creativity
The Effects of Test Score Feedb ack on Creative
Performance and of Drugs on Creative Experience

Part 2
Altering Human Nature
Psychedelic Drugs and the Concord Prison Experiment

5 Reforming Aggression: The Concord Prison Experiment
A New Behavior Change Program Using Psilocybin By Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Madison Presnell, Gunther Weil, Ralph Schwitzgebel, and Sara Kinne

6 An Autobiographical Perspective of the CPE
The Effects of Consciousness-Expanding Drugs on Prisoner Rehabilitation

Part 3
Psychedelic Drugs and Mysticism
The Good Friday Experiment of 1962

7 Leary’s Mystical Turn
Religious Implications of Consciousness-Expanding Drugs By Timothy Leary and Walter Houston Clark

8 The Good Friday Experiment
The Religious Experience: Its Production and Interpretation

9 The World Beyond Words
Foreword to Alan Watts’s The Joyous Cosmology By Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert

Part 4
Bold New Frontiers
Leary’s Early Writing on LSD and DMT

10 Leary’s First Article on LSD
Introduction to LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug

11 Leary’s Radical Theory of Reimprinting
Languages: Energy Systems Sent and Received

12 Leary and the Psychedelic “Nuclear Bomb”
Programmed Communication during Experiences with DMT

Part 5
Historical Documents from the Harvard Drug Scandal

13 The IFIF Manifesto
Statement of Purpose of the International Federation for Internal Freedom (IFIF ) By Timothy Leary and Huston Smith

14 The Zihuatanejo Project of 1962-1963
Rationale of the Mexican Psych edelic Training Center By Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner

15 Leary and Alpert’s Response to the Harvard Drug Scandal
The Politics of Consciousness Expansion By Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert

16 Media Reaction to the Harvard Drug Scandal
The Hallucinogenic Drug Cult By Noah Gordon

Afterword: Leary and Psychedelic Research in the Twenty-first Century by James Penner

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.9.2014
Verlagsort	Rochester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Entspannung / Meditation / Yoga
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
ISBN-10	1-62055-235-3 / 1620552353
ISBN-13	978-1-62055-235-3 / 9781620552353
Zustand	Neuware