Harvard Psilocybin Project

Round window above the altar at Boston University's Marsh Chapel, site of the Harvard Psilocybin Project's Marsh Chapel Experiment

The Harvard Psilocybin Project was a series of experiments aimed at exploring the effects of psilocybin intake on the human mind conducted by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. The founding board of the project consisted of Leary, Aldous Huxley, David McClelland (Leary's and Alpert's superior at Harvard University),[1] Frank Barron, Ralph Metzner, and two graduate students who were working on a project with mescaline.[2]

  1. ^ "Leary Lectures at Harvard for First Time in 20 Years". The New York Times. April 25, 1983. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  2. ^ Stafford, Peter; Jeremy Bigwood (1993). Psychedelics Encyclopedia. Ronin Publishing. ISBN 0-914171-51-8.