Psychedelics and the spiritual journey is a massive topic! Morgan & Norm step into the ring by discussing the two people your boomer parents definitely think of when they see magic mushrooms on the voting ballot. Morgan takes Norm into who Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert were before they became their public personas: "The Most Dangerous Man in America" & the beloved spiritual teacher Ram Dass. This covers their time at Harvard, how they first got "turned on" to psilocybin, their famous experiments and how salty student journalists can derail careers.

Sources & Further Reading:

• Lattin, Don. The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America. HarperOne, 2011. 
• Hatsis, Thomas. LSD-the Wonder Child: The Golden Age of Psychedelic Research in the 1950s. Park Street Press, 2021. 
• Dass, Ram. Being Ram Dass. Sounds True , 2022. 
• Roberts, Andy. Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead. Strange Attractor Press, 2019. 
• Reynolds , Gareth, and Dave Anthony. “Timothy Leary Party 1.” The Dollop, episode 433. 

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