“[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and completely engrossing examine.” -Dennis McNally, writer of A Long Unusual Trip: THE WITHIN History of the Pleased Deceased, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America

It is out of the question to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin’s The Harvard Psychedelic Membership. Huston Smith, tirelessly attempting to promote cross-cultural religious and religious tolerance. Richard Alpert, a.k.a. Ram Dass, inspiring decades along with his mantra, “be here right now.” Andrew Weil, undisputed head from the holistic medicine revolution. And, obviously, Timothy Leary, the charismatic, rebellious counter-culture icon and LSD expert. Journalist Don Lattin provides the funny, moving inside story of the “Cambridge Quartet,” who crossed pathways with the infamous Harvard Psilocybin Project in the early 60’s, and continued to pioneer the Brain/Body/Spirit movement that could popularize yoga exercises, vegetarianism, and Eastern mysticism in the Western world.