How to Change Your Mind

become a millionaire, owner of a fleet of aircraft, a one-hundred-foot yacht, a Rolls-Royce, and a pri ...

mother and father having intercourse.” Clearly this was what the angel had foretold—“something tremendously import ...

for long-term planning at Ampex, at the time a leading electronics firm in Silicon Valley—became “convinced t ...

pictures of Jesus or to ask them to study the facets of a diamond he carried. One patient he treated in V ...

(“We waited for him like the little old lady on the prairie waiting for a copy of the Sears Roebuck catalog,” ...

biological weapons specialist named Frank Olson in 1953; a few days later, Olson supposedly jumped to his dea ...

experiment by experiment; there is no real-world model for using a drug to change all of society as Hubbard and ...

year after joining the board.) His title as “scientific director” notwithstanding, Hubbard himself said during th ...

Nominally Jewish, he was by his thirties a spiritual seeker whose path eventually led him to Gerald Heard, the ...

were getting religion. (And have it still: I know of one Bay Area tech company today that uses psy ...

the most lasting benefits from their session. Don Allen told me that most clients emerged with “notabl ...

the federal government, including the military. Harman was put in charge of SRI’s Educational Policy Research Cente ...

went to work for Willis Harman at SRI, his first job out of graduate school. By then, Al Hubbard was more ...

“I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Va ...

wrapped in a blanket, it appeared that the streets lined with buildings were not quite parallel. This ...

Part II: The Crack-Up Timothy Leary came late to psychedelics. By the time he launched the Harvard Psilocybin ...

people on a waiting list) no treatment at all. After a year, one-third of all the subjects had improved ...

fifteen as a diligent psychologist,” he wrote later in Flashbacks, his 1983 memoir. “I learned that the brain ...

members of the seminar will participate in experiences with consciousness expanding methods and a systematic analysi ...

most of the credit—may well represent Leary’s most enduring contribution to psychedelic science. Leary and ...