White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg

by Peter Conners

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In 1960 Timothy Leary was not yet famous -- or infamous -- and Allen Ginsberg was both. Leary, eager to expand his experiments at the Harvard Psilocybin Project to include accomplished artists and writers, knew that Ginsberg held the key to bohemia's elite. Ginsberg, fresh from his first experience with hallucinogenic mushrooms in Mexico, was eager to promote the spiritual possibilities of psychedelic use. Thus, "America's most conspicuous beatnik" was recruited as Ambassador of Psilocybin under the auspices of an Ivy League professor, and together they launched the psychedelic revolution and turned on the hippie generation. White Hand Society...Read more
  • ISBN10 0872865754
  • ISBN13 9780872865754
  • Publish Date 23 November 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint City Lights Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 312
  • Language English