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  1. Leary, Metzner, and Alpert Instruct LSD Initiates on How to Achieve a Successful “Psychedelic Session”
    date 1964map New York, New Yorktags Psychology, Counterculture, Drug Culture, Religion

    In 1964, psychologists Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert published The Psychedelic Experience, a manual intended to prepare the users of psychedelic drugs for sessions. The authors had researched the therapeutic aspects of psychedelic substances, as well as their religious possibilities. The book is heavily influenced by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, (also known as Bardo Thodol) a funerary...