High Priest by Timothy Leary is a reissued account from the dawn of the psychedelic era, documenting 16 LSD trips experienced before the substance was illegal. Featuring trip guides such as Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, and Huston Smith, the book offers insights into the psychedelic gatherings at the Millbrook mansion in New York State during the 1960s and the influential figures who journeyed there to explore altered states of consciousness with Leary’s group.
Publisher Summary
“Back in print after 20 years, this text from the earliest days of psychedelia chronicles the experiences on 16 acid trips taken before LSD was illegal. The trip guides or “high priests” included Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Ralph Meltzner, Huston Smith and a junkie from New York City named Willy. It tells of the goings-on and freaking out at the Millbrook mansion in New York State that became the Mecca of psychedelia during the 1960s, and of the many luminaries who made their pilgrimage there to trip with Leary and his group. Chapters include an I Ching reading and a chronicle of what happened during those “spacewalks” of the mind.“