![]() ![]() Legend has it that Leary and Alpert, the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn of psychedelia, began a series of extracurricular hallucinogenic activities with Harvard graduate students that eventually ticked off the university authorities so much that they were dismissed. Alpert helped to pioneer some of the most significant research into the psychological effects of psychedelic drugs during the early 1960s. Along with his colleagues Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner, Dr. In March of 1961, Richard Alpert, a well-respected research psychologist at Harvard University, had his first experience with the sacred psilocybin mushroom, an experience which was to shape his destiny. Here he is in a March, 1995 interview with David Jay Brown and Rebecca McClen Novick, which we’re republishing to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Ram Dass’ death on December 22. By the time he re-emerged, it was as the spiritually awakening Ram Dass (1931-2019)-author, activist and guru to a generation of Westerners. Timothy Leary’s psychedelic sidekick Richard Alpert was a Harvard psychologist before he turned on, tuned in and dropped out. ![]()
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