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North American Literatures. The Beat movement was America's first major Cold War literary movement. Originally a small circle of unpublished friends, it later became one of the most significant sources of contemporary counterculture, and the most successful free speech movement in American literature.
When those epoch-making cultural changes got underway in the ’60s, the Beats were naturally looked upon as mentor figures and elder statesmen, and Timothy Leary, who was of the same age group as them, was happy to recruit and induct them into the cause – through his Harvard program.
In my view, Leary was a scientist, but his psychedelic transformation inspired him to abandon the scienti2c method and embark on what was essentially a social and spiritual crusade. Leary’s most ambitious psychedelic research project during his three years at Harvard was the Concord Prison Project.
Acid Dreams traces the way the drug intensified each stage of counter-cultural transition to break the “mind-forged manacles” of a new generation in rebellion. In Acid Dreams, Martin Lee and Bruce Shalin have written the history of a time still only dimly understood.
1 de oct. de 2013 · The archives of the one-time Harvard psychologist who became an evangelist for the mind-expanding potential of hallucinogenic drugs in the 1960s have found a new home at the New York Public ...
13 de abr. de 2017 · An historic occasion!” – (Allen beats the drums!) – “The Beat Generation – A Literary History (1953-1957)”, an eight-week course taught by Ginsberg, featuring himself, (Gregory) Corso, (William) Burroughs, and (Jack) Kerouac, with a strict focus on that specific time-frame.
In 1961, Leary gave psilocybin to all the important members of the Beat Generation and asked them to report on their experiences. Finally, in 1962 Timothy Leary took LSD for the first time.
