Word: alpert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, said last night that attempts to restrict his research with consciousness- expanding drugs limit the "freedom of the individual to explore himself...
...every describable way, naturally occurring profound experiences that have been reported to me (most common-intense love, esthetic entrancement, religious ecstasy) in open-ended questionnaires resemble psychedelic drug-induced experiences of the subjects of Drs. Leary and Alpert...
...overwhelming majority of the subjects who have taken LSD, mescaline or psilocybin through Drs. Leary and Alpert report that their lives have been changed for the better. I have taken these drugs a number of times myself. I feel a reverence for the experiences they have induced, just as I feel a reverence for my most cherished, naturally occurring profound experiences...
...experimenting only with animals were slipping LSD to unqualified buddies, who were using the drug for kicks. In Los Angeles, beatniks and assorted addicts lapped the stuff up, buying (for $1 apiece) lumps of sugar in which a drop of the potent raw material had been absorbed. Leary and Alpert, in their Harvard days, got a supply of psilocybin from Sandoz. Then, under last October's amendments to the Food and Drug Act, came stricter control. Sandoz, in an earnest effort to keep the drugs out of unlawful channels, promptly cut down its clientele to animal experimenters and scientists...
...Leary and Alpert, though, the controversy represents a power struggle over the control of human consciousness. They accuse psychiatrists of being behind the times and interested only in mental illness. (But I.F.I.F. has a medical director, Dr. W. Madison Presnell, a qualified psychiatrist, who now supervises the giving of all drugs.) They see a kaleidoscopic future for men with expanded consciousness...