ISBN  9788417553586
Autor  THOMAS CORAGHESSAN BOYLE
Editorial  IMPEDIMENTA
Condicion  Nuevo
In 1943 LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife Joanie become entranced by the drug s possibilities such that their "research" becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a free-wheeling exploration of mind expansion group dynamics and communal living. With his trademark humor and pathos Boyle moves us through the Loneys initiation at one of Leary s parties to his notorious summer seminars in Zihuatanejo until the Loneys eventual expulsion from Harvard and their introduction to a communal arrangement of thirty devotees--students wives and children--living together in a sixty-four room mansion and devoting themselves to all kinds of experimentation and questioning.