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...PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE (Broadside). Three of the pot religion's high priests (Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner) read from "The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead" in droning, sullen voices that might be coming from the far side of the grave. "You are about to begin a great adventure, a trip out of your mind," Leary promises. What the listener is really about to begin is a dull record, with little to recommend it beyond a beautifully executed jacket drawing...
Harry Dr. Ralph Metzner...
...into the open, Miss Bieberman encourages people to come to the PIC and ask questions. She tries to give them advice on how to "run sessions" and how to hold onto their experiences "up there" when they "come back down." She refers them to a book by Leary, Metzner, and Alpert called The Psychedelic Experience. "They come from all over," she said, "and they tell me about their experiences, and they're worried--did they do it right? Did they get far enough? And I tell them it's all the same...
...reading: "We saw, however, very early that we could not begin to impose strict experimental controls (and strong assumptions) on our research until we had a broader view of the human and scientific problems involved. For this reason our first study [cited above] was purely naturalistic." (G. Litwin, R. Metzner, G. Weil, "Some problems encountered in working on the psilocybin research project," dittoed...
...Abnormal Psychology states, for example: "...placebo treatment is necessary, because without it we could not be sure that any effects observed in the experimental group were due to the drug and not to psychological factors such as suggestibility, expectation, and so forth." To this the questionnaire study by Metzner et al. responds: "The present study does not employ a placebo control group since the focus of interest was not the comparison of psilocybin experiences with the effects of suggestion. Rather, the purpose of the research was to examine the effects of a set, setting and back-ground variables...