Alpert, Richard

Spearheading the research into LSD as a consciousness-expanding drug was Timothy Leary, Ph.D., a psychologist at Harvard University. With his partner, Richard Alpert Ph.D, Leary led studies at Harvard from 1960 to 1963 on the effects of taking LSD and similar drugs. Their research took them to local prisons, where... 

A manual based on THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner Richard Alpert... 

Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Around his stay in that city, Huxley created a circle at Harvard parallel to his West Coast LSD team. The Harvard group included Huxley, Osmond, and Watts (brought in from California), Timothy Leary, and Richard Alpert. 

In 1967, Dr. Richard Alpert put Hitchcock in contact with Augustus Owsley Stanley III. As Owsley s agent, Hitchcock retained the law firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin and Standard (24) to conduct a feasibility study of several Caribbean countries to determine the best location for the production and distribution of LSD and hashish. 

Richard Alpert, Robert Anton Wilson and Oscar Janiger... 

Sidney Cohen, one of the first to receive LSD in the Los Angeles area, who, according to Oscar Janiger, was instrumental in introducing the social use of LSD. Cohen produced an important early work on LSD, The Beyond Within, along with another that was quite influential, LSD, in which he and Richard Alpert addressed some 40 central questions raised by psychedelics. 

Michael Hollingshead, one of the main distributors of perhaps the most significant gram of LSD — labelled "H-00047" — that passed eventually into the systems of Donovan, Paul McCartney, Keith Richard, Paul Krassner, Frank Barron, Huston Smith, Paul Lee, Richard Katz, Pete La Roca, Charlie Mingus, Saul Steinberg, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner, Alan Watts, Jean Houston and perhaps a thousand others. "There is some possibility," he once commented, "that my friends and I have illuminated more people than anyone else in history."... 

Psychedelics, which once helped create a "generation gap, have also had the effect of improving family relationships, as happened for psychologist Richard Alpert. After taking a large dose of LSD one night, he went to a family reunion the next day. His brother asked, "How s the nut business This "digging at each other was typical of his family it "was our form of love. It was a Jewish, middle-class tradition ... 

Still affected by his psychedelic state, Alpert saw an arrow coming out of his brother s mouth, slowly crossing the table. In his mind, Alpert reached up, took this arrow and put it next to his spoon. Then he "picked up a heart and blew this over to his brother and said, "Gee, your kids are getting so incredibly big and handsome. A look of confusion crossed his brother s face, because Richard wasn t playing the family game. After some silence, his brother sent over another arrow "Well, you re certainly not growing much hair, are you Alpert s response was to reach up for this arrow and set it down on the table. He sent back another heart shape "Boy, your wife is getting more beautiful all the time. ... 

Already engaged in psilocybin research at Harvard, Leary was one of those who partook of "Lot No. H-00047. He took a tablespoon and a half from Hollingshead s mayonnaise jar of LSD cut with sugar-icing—and didn t talk for five days. Richard Alpert, his dose associate, "told everybody not to touch the stuff—we had just lost Timothy. When Leary came back, Alpert remembers him as saying, "Wow ... 

From left, Bonnie Golightly, Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), Allen Ginsberg, Albert Hofmann and Ralph Metzner gathered for a colloquium entitled "LSD—A Generation Later at the University of California, Santa Cruz in October 1977. More than 4,000 people came to hear Dr. Hofmann s talk. 

During the winter term of 1961, another Harvard faculty member, Richard Alpert, became an important companion. Leary and Alpert were co-lecturers in a course on "game theory called Existential Transactional Behavior Change. Alpert was asked by the chairman of the social relations department (McClelland) to keep an eye on Leary and this "mushroom project. ... 

STP was said to be an acronym for "Serenity, Tranquility and Peace, although for many it proved to be a foundation-shaking experience. Among the first to try STP was Richard Alpert, who took it in an apartment building on 57th Street in Manhattan and promptly tried to walk out the window. He was so scared by his response that he said the drug should not be released under any circumstances, that it was too intense. Later, considering that... 

Were it not for Timothy Leaty, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, the terror drug would have been excluded from the Psychedelic Age. Although these three had heard nothing but negative reports about the effects of this compound, undaunted they decided to test the drug on themselves. They discovered that when one observes the rules of "set and "setting, DMT produces a short but ecstatic experience. 

The Psychedelic Experience A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert)... 

Dr. Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Richard Alpert, and others used graduate students as test subjects to study the creativity-enhancing properties of psilocybin. (Later, it was declared a crime for Dr. Leary to carry out such studies.). 

Leary, Timothy, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert. 1964. The... 

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