Don Lattin's Blog

• Three Books to Take You on that Long Strange Trip

  August 16, 2010

  • Last week (Aug. 9, 1960) marked this 50th anniversary of the day Timothy Leary, a research psychologist at Harvard University, swallowed some magic mushrooms down in Mexico and decided that America was ready to embark on a long, strange trip. So perhaps it’s time to look back at “the high priest of LSD” and a few other men who gave birth to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s. ...
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• News Media Tunes In, Turns on

  July 2, 2010

  • Having spent the last three years tripping through the history of the psychedelic sixties, I couldn't help but laugh at the following paragraph in a recent front-page story in the New York Times: "Scientists are especially intrigued by the similarities between hallucinogenic experiences and the life-changing revelations reported throughout history by religious mystics and those who ...
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• Episco Disco

  June 25, 2010

  • Northern California's latest attempt to re-invent journalism, the Bay Citizen, went on-line May 26, and as someone who covered the Godbeat in that neighborhood for 25 years, I was happy to see an entertaining religion story prominently displayed on Day One.The story was headlined "At Episco Disco – The Sacred and the Profane – a young priest puts on the best party in town." Four ...
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