Reviewed by: Psychedelic Refugee: The League for Spiritual Discovery, the 1960s Cultural Revolution, and 23 Years on the Run by Rosemary Woodruff Leary Devin R. Lander (bio) Psychedelic Refugee: The League for Spiritual Discovery, the 1960s Cultural Revolution, and 23 Years on the Run By Rosemary Woodruff Leary, edited by David F. Phillips. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2021. 252 pages....
Reviewed by: American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century by Ido Hartogsohn Devin Lander (bio) American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century By Ido Hartogsohn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. 432 pages, 6" x 9". $35.00 paper, $35.00 ebook. Ido Hartogsohn, assistant professor in the program for science, technology,...
This paper describes a radical and short-lived spiritual movement that emerged in New York State in the 1960s. With Dr. Timothy Leary as the figurehead, two of these psychedelic religions rose to brief cultural prominence in period of 1963–1968 when Leary and his communal group made their home in the small village of Millbrook, New York. Due to negative media attention and a subsequent law...