The 7th Avenue Project

Divinity, Psychedelia, Addiction and Recovery: Don Lattin on "Distilled Spirits"


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The last time I had journalist and author Don Lattin on the show, we discussed his book "The Harvard Psychedelic Club," about Timothy Leary and Co. This time, we talked about a previous generation of consciousness raisers. Don's new book, "Distilled Spirits: Getting Drunk, Then Sober with a Famous Writer, A Forgotten Philosopher and a Hopeless Drunk," tells the intersecting stories of Aldous Huxley, spiritual voyager and author of "The Doors of Perception"; his compatriate Gerald Heard, philosophical mystic and early acid head; and Bill Wilson, friend of Heard and founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. The book is also a memoir of Don's own psychedelic experiences, his drug and alcohol addiction and AA-assisted recovery.
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