Word: ifif
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Timothy Leary, lecturer in Clinical Psychology, and of the group of his associates at the Center for Research in Personality, raised a controversy last spring over the legality and propriety of their research with drugs. Leary's description last Sunday evening of the International Foundation for Internal Freedom (IFIF), a corporation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts devoted to research on the use of consciousness-expanding drugs, is likely to excite further interest...
Leary described the program and conception of his research nearly a year ago in a lecture to the Social Relations colloquim entitled "New Methods for Behavior Change." His talk last Sunday supplied further details on IFIF and his research last summer in Mexico...
...IFIF will supply drugs and legal and financial support to properly qualified groups, called "cells," which apply. Among those which have applied are a group of ministers interested in the "transcendental" experiences drugs can induce, psychologists interested in group dynamics, and three Christian families desirous of higher spiritual experience. Each group must report on its experiences, and since an M.D. is required to administer most psycho-activating drugs, will include a doctor. The national foundation will publish a journal covering the work of cells and "set up retreats where Americans can go for longer periods of inner exploration...