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Bibliography
The following are the many of the materials used to create this course.
Books and Collections
Acid Dreams, Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, Grove Press, 1985
Acid Revival, Danielle Giffort, University of Minnesota Press, 2020
Being Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das, Sounds True, 2021
Cleansing the Doors of Perception, The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals, Huston Smith, Tharcher, 2000.
Clinical Psychiatry and Religion, Edited by E. Mansell Pattison, M.D., Department of Psychiatry University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle
Flashbacks, Timothy Leary, Putnam Press, 1983
High Priest, Timothy Leary, Ronin Publishing, 1968
LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug. David Soloman, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1966
LSD – The Wonder Child, Thomas Hatsis, Park Street Press, 2021
Mystic Chemist, Dieter Hagenbach and Luius Werthmuller, Synergetic Press, 2011
Storming Heaven, Jay Stevens, Grove Press, 1998
The Harvard Psychedelic Club, Don Lattin, Harper One, 2011
The Immortality Key, Brian C. Muraresku, St Marin’s Press, 2020
Timothy Leary, The Harvard Years, James Pennen, Park Street Press, 2014
Articles
A Social and Cultural History of The Federal Prohibition of Psilocybin. A Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy, Colin Wark, August 2007, University of Missouri-Columbia.
A Trip Down Memory Lane: LSD at Harvard, Harvard Crimson, May 23, 2016, Nathaniel J. Hiatt.
Altered States: LSD and the Anesthesia Laborary of Henry Knowles Beecher – George A. Mashour, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Acid Brothers – Henry Beecher, Timothy Leary and the Psychedelic of the Century, Jonathan Moreno, University of Pennsylvania.
Beecher Study – The Response of Normal Men to Lysergic Acid Derivatives Di and Mono Ethlamides – Correlation of Personality and Drug Reactions.
Botanical Sources of the New World Narcotics, Psychedelic Review, Vol1, NO2, Fall 1963, Richard Evans Schultes
Brief Life of Henry Knowles Beecher, Harvard Magazine, 2017
Dr. Leary’s Concord Prison Experiment: A 34-Year Follow-Up Study, Rick Doblins, M.P.P.
Drugs Which Antagonize 5-Hydroxytryptamine, J. H. Gaddum and Khan A. Hameed, Department of Pharmacology, University of Edinburgh, March 29, 1954, British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy.
Enduring contributions of Henry Beecher, MD to Medicine, Science and Society, Edited by Edward Lowenstein, W. Andrew Kofke, MD, and Buckman McPeek, Univerisity of Pennsylvania.
From LSD to IRB, Henry Beecher’s Psychedelic Research and the Foundations of Clinical Ethics, George A. Mashour, Ph.D., Universit of Michigan Medical School.
Glossy Visions: Coverage of LSD in Popular Magazines, 1954-1968, Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy, Stehen I. Siff, November 2008, Scripps College of Communication of Ohio University.
Hallucination Drug Fought at Harvard, Boston Globe, Noah Gordon, March 1962.
Harvard Explains Psychology Aims. Dr. Morton Prince. NY Times, May 2, 1926.
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber. Alston Chase, The Atlantic, June 2000 Issue.
Harvard LSD Research Draws National Attention. Harvard Crimson, Nikita Kansra and Cynthia W. Shih, May 21, 2012.
I.F.I.F. Group Plans Center For Research, Drug Experimenters to Work in Mexico. Harvard Crimson, Joel e. Cohen, January 16, 1963
Leary and Alpert Attack Monro Stand on Drugs. Harvard Crimson, December 11, 1962, No writer attributed.
Leary Lectures at Harvard For First Time in 20 Years, NY Times, April 25, 1983.
Letter from Alpert, Leary. Harvard Crimson, December 13, 1962, No writer attributed.
Observations from Richard Alpert. Early 1976 Interview
Psychedelics and Entheogens: Implications of Administration in Medical and Non-Medical Contexts, Hannah Rae Kirk, Thesis, Oregon State Universit, Honors College, May 23, 2018.
Psychotomimetric Drugs, Henry K. Beecher, M.D., Boston, Mass. From: The Anesthesia Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1958, A Review.
Psilocybin Expert Raps Leary, Alpert on Drugs, Harvard Crimson, December 12, 1962, Efrem Sigel. (expert Dr. Gerald K. Klerman, Mass General).
Recollections of the Good Friday Experiment: An Interview with Huston Smith – Interviewed by Thomas B. Roberts and Robert N. Jesse, 1966.
Reflections on the Concord Prison Project and the Follow-Up Study, Ralph Metzner, Ph. D.
State Will Investigate Research on Psilocybin, Harvard Crimson, March 21, 1962, No writer attributed.
Statement of the Purpose of the International Federation for Internal Freedom.
The Effects of Psychedelic Experience on Language Functioning, Stanley Drippner, Ph. D., Psychedelics
The Harvard Review, vol1, NO4, Summer 1963, Josiah Lee Auspitz, May 27, 1963. Issue devoted to “Drugs and the Mind”.
The Hallucinogenic Mushrooms of Mexico and Psilocybin: A Bibliography, R. Gordon Wasson. Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University, March 10, 1963.
The Strange Case of the Harvard Drug Scandal, Andrew T. Weil, Look Magazine, November 5, 1963.
The United States Print Media and its War on Psychedelic Research in the 1960s, Jessica M. Bracco, Buffalo State College, 2019.
Psychic Research LSD. Time Magazine, Medicine. March 29, 1963.
Walter Pahnke, Harvard Divinity School, Ph.D. Thesis, 1963
Locations
Harvard Divinity School Library
Harvard University Archives
Papers of Herb Kelman, David C. McClelland, Timothy Leary,
Harvard Divinity School Archives
Harvard Medical School Archives, Countway Library. – Papers of Henry Beecher.
Herbert Vetter Papers, Harvard Divinity School Archives
Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection – Harvard Archives, Houghton Library
Lamont Library, Harvard
M.I.T. Department of Distinctive Collections – Aldous Huxley Lecture Series, “What a Piece of Work Is a Man”
New York City Library, Archives
Timothy Leary Papers
Widener Library, Harvard
Personal
Gunther Weil
I Glenn Cohen – Harvard Law – The Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation
Franklin King, IV, MD, Harvard Medical – Mass Gen Hosptial – Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics
Studies
Concord Experiment
Harvard Psilocybin Project
Good Friday Experiment
The Effects of Methedrine and Lysergic Acid Diethylamide on Mental Processes on the Blood Adrenaline Levels, 1952, Dr. W. Liddell and H. Weil-Malherbe, Runwell Hospital, Wickford Essex, Journal Neurological Psychiatry, 1953.
The project of Psychedelic Law and Regulation (POPLAR) – Harvard Law School
Harvard Law – Petrie-flom Center – Examine the ethical, legal, social implications of psychedelic research, commerce, and therapeutics.
Timothy Leary and Associates, Papers, 1962, Harvard Archives # 17168
Additional Reference
Brooks, David Christian, The Linguistic Conquest of Spanish America, Auburn University Dissertation, 2001.
Cohen, Sidney. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Side Effects and Complications. The Journal of Mental and Nervous Disease 130, no. 1 (1960): 30-40.
Lee Martin, and Bruce Shlain. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. New York: Grove Press, 1985.
RiedIinger, Thomas J. Existential Transactions at Harvard: Timothy Leary’s Humanistic Psychotherapy. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 33, no. 6 (1993): 6-18.
Russin Joseph M., and Andrew T. Weil. Corporation Fires Richard Alpert for Giving Undergraduates Drugs. Harvard Crimson. May 28, 1963.
Alpert, Richard [Ram Dass]. Be Here Now. San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation, 1971.
——— . Grist for the Mill. Santa Cruz, CA: Unity Press, 1977.
— . Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook. Rev. ed. New York: Bantam, 1990. First published 1978.
——— . Letter to Nathan Pusey. Harvard Crimson, May 29, 1963.
— . The Only Dance There Is. Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1974. First published 1970.
Chase, Alston. Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
Cheever, Susan. My Name Is Bill. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Cohen, Allen. The San Francisco Oracle—Facsimile Edition. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 1991.
Clark, Walter Houston. Chemical Ecstasy: Psychedelic Drugs and Religion. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1969.
Doblin, Rick. Leary’s Concord Prison Experiment: A 34-Year Follow-Up Study. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 30, no. 4 (1998): 419-427.
— . Pahnke’s ‘Good Friday Experiment’: A Long-Term Follow-Up and Methodological Critique. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 23, no. 1 (1991).
Forte, Robert. Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 1999.
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. New York: Harper Perennial Library, 2004.
——— . Island. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962.
Leary, Timothy. Confessions of a Hope Fiend. New York: Bantam, 1973.
——— . Interview. Playboy, September 1966,93.
—- . The Politics of Ecstasy. Ronin Publishing, 1998. First published 1985 by Grove Press.
—- , ed. The Psychedelic Reader: The Revolutionary 1960s Forum of Psychopharmacological Substances. New York: Citadel Press, 2007.
Leary, Timothy, with Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert. The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book The Dead. New York: Citadel Press, 2007. First published 1964.
Metzner, Ralph. Ten Classical Metaphors of Self-Transformation. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 12, no. 1 (1980): 47-62.
— . The World’s Religions. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991. First published 1958 as The Religions of Man.
Smith, Huston, with David Griffin. Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1989.
Stevens, Jay. Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
Terraciano, Kevin. Codex Sierra: A Nahuati-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico. Oklahoma Press, 2021.
Watts, Alan. The Joyous Cosmology. New York: Pantheon Books, 1962.
Weil, Andrew. The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972..
Weil, Andrew, with Winifred Rosen. From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
Whitmer, Peter. Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture That Changed America. New York: Citadel Press, 1987.
Whitmer, Peter. Unpublished manuscript, The Legend of a Mind, psychobiography of Timothy Leary.
WPIX – The Thin Line – 1959 TV Special on the dangers of LSD (Gregory Bateson, Abramson)
COURSE READINGS
Administrative Considerations – Feb 62
Alpert Letter to Pusey 5/15/63
Ambivalence of Drug Use – Hofmann
Beats Enter the Program – Chapters 12 & 13 – Greenfield
Beginning of The Harvard Psilocybin Project – 1960 – Storming Heaven
Bibliography
Biology of Consciousness 2016 – Brian Farrell – Harvard
Biology Of Consciousness Brian Farrell
Birth of the Project – Greenfield – Chapter 10
Charles Slack – Madness of the Sixties
Class Readings
Codex Caution – Maria Castaneda de la Paz
Concord Prison Project – Chapter 14 & 15 – Greenfield
Concord Prison Project – March 1961 – High Priest
Dan Wakefield – A Reporters View
Doors of Perception – Aldous Hulxey – 1954
Drugs and Mysticism – Pahnke
Early Mushroom Finders – Reko, Weitlaner, Shultes
First Session in Cambridge – Fall 1960
Foreward – birth of a psychedelic culture
Foreward – The Timothy Leary Project – Zach Leary
Foreword – Flashbacks – William Borroughs
Foreword – High Priest – Allen Ginsberg
George Litwin
Ginsberg and Leary – Best Minds – Weine
Good Friday – Flashbacks
Good Friday – Greenfield – Chapter 17
Good Friday – Interview with Huston Smith
Good Friday 60 Years Ago – Kaleb Graves
Gunther Weil
Harold Gram – Harvard Psilocybin Project
Harvard 2023 Psychedelic Research
Harvard Divinity 2023 Research Panel #2 – King/Forcan
Harvard Drug Scandal – Andrew Weil – Look
Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Panel – Psychedelics – April 2023
Harvard Psilocybin Project – 1960-1963
FRONT PAGE
Harvard’s Henry Beecher LSD Research – 1950’s
Henry Knowles Beecher (1904–1976)
Huehuetiatolli – Oral Tradition
Huston Smith – First Psilocybin Experience – Jan 1961
International Foundation for Internal Freedom – IFIF
Introduction – James Penner – Timothy Leary – The Harvard Years
Introductory Course Video
James Penner Interview
John Blofeld – Psychedelic Experience
Latin – Introduction – The Harvard Psychedelic Club
Leary Meets Wasson NYC – Friedman
Leary on Burroughs – September 1961
Life Magazine – Seeking the Magic Mushroom
LSD and Religious Experience – Walter N. Pahnke
Luminaries and Important Figures of the Psychedelic Traditions
Meeting Huxley – Chapter 11 – Greenfield
Meeting McClelland – Greenfield – Chapter 10
Mushroom Bibliography
Newsletter
Pahnke Enters and Good Friday Begins
Podcast – E.O. Wilson, Richard E. Schultes and Wade Davis
Post World War II – Intelligence-Information Civilization
Prisoners to Prophets – Flashbacks
Program Introduction – Alpert, Kahn, Leary, Litwin, Metzner, Weil
Psilocybin – Black Mushrooms – 1960
Psilocybin and Creativity
Psilocybin and Peak Experiences – Jennifer Lyke
Psilocybin and psilocin – Serotonin
Psilocybin Project – Introduction – Ram Dass
Psilocybin(e) and Psilocine
Psychedelic Pinoneers – Lee and Shlain – Acid Dreams — Chapter 2
Psychedelic Pioneer – Hollingshead
Psychedelic Timeline
Schultes – 1939 Identification of Teonanacatl
Schultes – Descriptions of Peyote Ceremony
Schultes and Wasson – Harvard
Self-Image – Leary
Teonanacatl
Teonanacatl – Florentine Codex
The Ecstatic Adventure – Ralph Metzner
The First Western “Discovery” of Psilocybin Mushroom
The History of the Psychedelic Mushrooms
The History, Legalization, and Potentials of Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy
The Immortality Key – P1 C2 – Fall
The Peyote Road, 1936 – One River
The Road to Eleusis – Review
The Science of the Psychedelic Renaissance
The Social Relation Department
The State of Psychedelics at Harvard – 2022
Thomas S. Lamont – Fellow – Overseer
Timeline – 1959-1963
Timothy Leary – ‘Con III’ Culture
Timothy Leary’s First Mushroom Experience – August 1960
Videos
Vocabulary – People, Places, and Things
Walter C. Clark – The Psychedelics and Religion
Wasson – Adventure in Ethnomycological Exploration
Wasson – High Times
Wasson writes Overseer – September 1961
Wasson’s First Voyage – John Allen – Mushroom Pioneers
Wasson’s Paper 1960 – Hallucinogenic Fungi of Mexico
Who was First – Weitlaner, Wasson, Heim, or Singer?
Zack Leary talks with Ralph Metzner
Zihuatanejo – Therapuetic – Theological