Andrew Weil in The Harvard psychedelic club. They had chemistry.,
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:04 am
Looks like using LSD leads to a successful career, especially for Andrew Weil and Ram Dass. Can homeopathic LSD do the same???
Susan
"Packing his book with strange, wonderful scenes, Lattin argues that America would never be the same because of an unlikely quartet that did time — and drugs — at Harvard in the early 1960s. Along with Leary and Smith, the “psychedelic club” included psychologist Richard Alpert, who would go on to co-author a hugely popular version of “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” with Leary and recreate himself as the countercultural mystic Baba Ram Dass, and Andrew Weil, the alternative medicine guru whose undergraduate exposes of Leary and Alpert’s unorthodox methods ultimately led to their flight from Harvard. Lattin enthuses that this strange quartet “changed the way we see the very nature of reality.”
By kickstarting the drug-drenched 1960s, he writes, the club didn’t just tune in, turn on, drop out of normal society, it “changed nothing less than the way we look at mind, body and spirit.” Lattin credits his foursome with pushing America from “mechanistic thinking to mysticism” and “from the scientific to the shamanic.”
All four of the club members went on differing levels of renown, infamy or enlightenment. Leary became the godfather of the counterculture, an irrepressible trickster figure who hung with the Beatles, and served time in prison and exile before becoming an early apostle of cyberspace whose ashes were shot into orbit after his death in 1996. Ram Dass earnestly pursued strains of Eastern mysticism, wrote the hippie classic “Be Here Now,” struggled with his homosexuality, co-founded the Seva Foundation, which directs health and welfare projects in India, and still works to personify “compassion in action” even after a debilitating stroke.
Andrew Weil became an M.D., spent years trying to atone for his role in blowing the whistle on Leary and Alpert, has written in defense of altered consciousness, and ultimately created a massive, multimillion dollar industry in alternative medicine."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/bo ... x5qpUOnRGO
Susan
"Packing his book with strange, wonderful scenes, Lattin argues that America would never be the same because of an unlikely quartet that did time — and drugs — at Harvard in the early 1960s. Along with Leary and Smith, the “psychedelic club” included psychologist Richard Alpert, who would go on to co-author a hugely popular version of “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” with Leary and recreate himself as the countercultural mystic Baba Ram Dass, and Andrew Weil, the alternative medicine guru whose undergraduate exposes of Leary and Alpert’s unorthodox methods ultimately led to their flight from Harvard. Lattin enthuses that this strange quartet “changed the way we see the very nature of reality.”
By kickstarting the drug-drenched 1960s, he writes, the club didn’t just tune in, turn on, drop out of normal society, it “changed nothing less than the way we look at mind, body and spirit.” Lattin credits his foursome with pushing America from “mechanistic thinking to mysticism” and “from the scientific to the shamanic.”
All four of the club members went on differing levels of renown, infamy or enlightenment. Leary became the godfather of the counterculture, an irrepressible trickster figure who hung with the Beatles, and served time in prison and exile before becoming an early apostle of cyberspace whose ashes were shot into orbit after his death in 1996. Ram Dass earnestly pursued strains of Eastern mysticism, wrote the hippie classic “Be Here Now,” struggled with his homosexuality, co-founded the Seva Foundation, which directs health and welfare projects in India, and still works to personify “compassion in action” even after a debilitating stroke.
Andrew Weil became an M.D., spent years trying to atone for his role in blowing the whistle on Leary and Alpert, has written in defense of altered consciousness, and ultimately created a massive, multimillion dollar industry in alternative medicine."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/bo ... x5qpUOnRGO