How To Go Out Of Your Mind - The LSD Crisis

Watch, here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6873775765531563195#

SYNOPSIS
A look at the dangers and benefits of the hallucinogenic drug LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide). Much of this documentary was filmed at a foundation for psychedelic research in Millbrook, New York, run by psychologist Timothy Leary. Featuring Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Ralph Metzner, and more.

Back in the 1960’s a former Harvard professor stopped giving A’s, B’s and C’s and started handing out LSD. his name was Timothy Leary and he was at the center of a controversy in North America over the growing use of psychedelic drugs. Leary ran a research center in New York state where young people took ‘acid’ while he took notes. The media took notice.

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I gave way to delight, as mystics have for centuries when they peeked through the curtains and discovered that this world- so manifestly real was actually a tiny stage set constructed by the mind. We discover abruptly that everything we accept as reality is just social fabrications. - Timothy Leary, 1966...

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Statistics show that taking LSD is no more dangerous than signing up for a four year course at Harvard College – Timothy Leary

Duration: 55:58
Format: Avi
Year: 2007 ad

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