Birth of a Psychedelic Culture

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Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties

By Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner with Gary Bravo
Introduction by John Perry Barlow

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WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION…

No understanding of the history of the sixties could ever be complete without a grasp of the work of Leary, Alpert, and Metzner, the cultural resistance to their experiments, and the way in which psychoactive drug use became a part of contemporary society. Next Generation Independent Book Awards Finalist, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture shines a bright light on these experiments and their cultural milieu through never before seen photographs and the personal accounts of authors Ralph Metzner and Ram Dass, who vividly recall descriptions of particular “trips” as well as conversations with luminaries such as Aldus Huxley, Charles Mingus, Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs and others that appeared on the scene.

Ram Dass, (formerly Dr. Richard Alpert), is a world famous spiritual teacher and author of the best-seller Be Here Now. He is well known for his journeys to India and his association with the guru, Neem Karoli Baba. Alpert is the founder of several organizations dedicated to expanding consciousness and awareness. Including the Lama and SEVA Foundations.

Ralph Metzner, author of many books, practices psychotherapy and is Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Involved in consciousness research for over 40 years, including psychedelics, yoga, meditation, and shamanism, he is co-founder and president of the Green Earth Foundation, a non-profit educational organization devoted to healing and harmonizing the relationship between humans and the Earth.

Gary Bravo is the Chief Psychiatrist for Sonoma County Mental Health in Santa Rosa, CA. He has written numerous articles on psychedelics, psychiatry, and transpersonal psychology.

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Book launch, City Lights, San Francisco	Celebrating the release of Birth of a Psychedelic Culture – Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties, by Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner, with Gary Bravo. Foreword by John Perry Barlow (Synergetic Press) An evening of spirited discussion exploring Ralph Metzner's newly released conversational memoir. Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is an in-depth examination of the legacy of the 1960's by the two surviving facilitators of the mind-altering Harvard experiments, Professor Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner, who, working with Professor Timothy Leary, touched off a revolution in psychology. Professor Metzner shall also be discussing his recently released book MindSpace and TimeStream, Alchemical Divination Series (Regent Press). Ralph Metzner, PhD, part of the famed triad of psychologists who became world famous as pioneers of psychedelics in the 1960's, continues to practice psychotherapy and to teach workshops nationally and internationally. Editor of the Psychedelic Review and The Ecstatic Adventure, he wrote Maps of Consciousness, Know Your Type, The Unfolding Self (1986), The Well of Remembrance (1994), and Green Psychology (1999). He has published edited collections on the science and phenomenology of MDMA (Through the Gateway of the Heart, 1985); ayahuasca (Sacred Vine of Spirits, 2006); and psilocybin mushrooms (Sacred Mushroom of Visions, 2005). Academic Dean at the California Institute of Integral Studies during the 1980s, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Metzner is founder and president of the Green Earth Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation. Most recently, he has begun writing and publishing a new series of seven short books, with the general title “The Ecology of Consciousness.” Gary Bravo, PhD, is Chief Psychiatrist for Sonoma County Mental Health in Santa Rosa, and has written numerous articles on psychedelics, psychiatry and transpersonal psychology. John Perry Barlow, former Wyoming rancher, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, cofounder and vice-chair, Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Book launch, City Lights, San Francisco

Celebrating the release of Birth of a Psychedelic Culture – Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties, by Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner, with Gary Bravo. Foreword by John Perry Barlow (Synergetic Press)

An evening of spirited discussion exploring Ralph Metzner's newly released conversational memoir. Birth of a Psychedelic Culture is an in-depth examination of the legacy of the 1960's by the two surviving facilitators of the mind-altering Harvard experiments, Professor Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner, who, working with Professor Timothy Leary, touched off a revolution in psychology. Professor Metzner shall also be discussing his recently released book MindSpace and TimeStream, Alchemical Divination Series (Regent Press).

Ralph Metzner, PhD, part of the famed triad of psychologists who became world famous as pioneers of psychedelics in the 1960's, continues to practice psychotherapy and to teach workshops nationally and internationally. Editor of the Psychedelic Review and The Ecstatic Adventure, he wrote Maps of Consciousness, Know Your Type, The Unfolding Self (1986), The Well of Remembrance (1994), and Green Psychology (1999). He has published edited collections on the science and phenomenology of MDMA (Through the Gateway of the Heart, 1985); ayahuasca (Sacred Vine of Spirits, 2006); and psilocybin mushrooms (Sacred Mushroom of Visions, 2005). Academic Dean at the California Institute of Integral Studies during the 1980s, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Metzner is founder and president of the Green Earth Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation. Most recently, he has begun writing and publishing a new series of seven short books, with the general title “The Ecology of Consciousness.”

Gary Bravo, PhD, is Chief Psychiatrist for Sonoma County Mental Health in Santa Rosa, and has written numerous articles on psychedelics, psychiatry and transpersonal psychology.

John Perry Barlow, former Wyoming rancher, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, cofounder and vice-chair, Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Alastair McIntosh – Jun 18th 2012:

What a treasure of a gift this is! Psychedelics may not be addictive, but this book is, and I read it compulsively. There is something about what you three guys did that had a massive loosening-up effect on so many. You opened our minds and your book demonstrates that the party goes on. I found the honesty of your sharing profound; the way you were able to be so critical of one another, and yet still uphold each other. Thank you for having fearlessly mapped out a cultural history from which a lot of people, both knowingly and unknowing, now live and are touched by.

– Alastair McIntosh, environmentalist, activist, and author of Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power