What we now associate with Timothy Leary - LSD, Grateful Dead concerts, hippies, tuning in and dropping out, first started out as psychological experiments at Harvard University. Leary, a charismatic and well-liked professor, hoped to help inmates rehabilitate by giving them mystical experiences ...
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, Don Lattin's Jesus Freaks is the story of a shocking pilgrimage of revenge that left two people dead and shed new light on The Family International, one of the most controversial religious movements to emerge from the spiritual turmoi...
NOTHING TESTS A NEW and working in an office set up to translate Family publications into Russian, Croatian, Hungarian, and other Eastern European languages. The place was perfect for The Family. It was a huge facility originally built to house workers with Hungary’s state-owned electrical utilit...