No understanding of the history of the sixties could be complete without
a grasp of the work of Leary, Alpert, and Metzner, the cultural
resistance to their experiments, and the way in which psychoactive drug
use became a part of contemporary society. Next Generation Independent
Book Awards Finalist, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture explores these
experiments and their cultural milieu through never before seen
photographs, personal accounts of authors Ralph Metzner and Ram Dass,
and conversations with luminaries such as Aldous Huxley, Charles Mingus,
Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others that appeared on the scene.