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Historical Documents from the Harvard Drug Scandal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
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.
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*Charles S. Grob, M.D., professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at
UCLA School of Medicine*
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*Robert Cohen, professor of history and social studies at New York
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as a writer unafraid of risks, certainly, but also able to build
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*James R. Kincaid, professor of English at the University of
Pittsburgh and author of Child-Loving, A*
“The brilliantly designed experiments that Timothy Leary and his
team performed with psilocybin, LSD, and DMT between 1960 and 1963
while at Harvard’s Center for Research in Personality laid the
foundation for the revolution we are presently witnessing in
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Writings on Psychedelics and the*
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*Sidney Homan, professor of English at the University of Florida
and actor, director, and author*
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*Marcus Boon, author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on
Drugs and professor of English at*
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*Robert Dickins, Psychedelic Press UK, October 2014*
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