Leary and Alpert Harvard Reunion
Timothy LearyJonathan
May 24, 2026April 1983Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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This item is from the Leary Audio collection compiled by M. Horowitz. Leary Audio #15 Leary and Alpert Harvard Reunion April, 1983
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The transcript is a reflective, humorous talk about psychedelics, consciousness, and the sense of unity and compassion they inspired. It also recounts Harvard-era psychedelic research, the speaker’s intellectual roots in transcendentalism, and later activism, exile, and institutional conflict.
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