Book Review: The Harvard Psychedelic Club
Don Lattin, an award-winning author and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, expertly guides the reader along the ’50s and ’60s psychedelic time line full of fascinating historical characters — icons who were fundamentally instrumental in establishing the American counterculture movement, which evolved into today’s Mind, Body & Spirit era of holistic health, meditation, and yoga.
The storyline involves four legendary figures — Harvard research psychologist Timothy Leary, Harvard psychology professor Richard Alpert (later in life known as spiritual teacher Ram Dass), MIT philosophy professor Huston Smith, and Harvard Medical School graduate Andrew Weil — men who passionately dedicated their lives to the exploration of human consciousness, spirituality, and holistic living.
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