Hey, Don A. Lattin, author of “The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America,” what was your reason for writing this book about Harvard’s LSD-riddled past?
"Like millions of people in my generation, I experimented with psychedelic drugs. I had both positive, incredible, revelatory—can I say—mystical experiences. I also had soul-terrifying, damaging experiences, which I write about in the afterword. I think what is important is not the experiences people had on these drugs, which can be a trip to heaven or a trip to hell, but what you do with these experiences. Does it make you a better person, more aware, compassionate, less egocentric? These four men all did that in their own way. Their experiences influence us all."
