Memo on the Religious Implications of the Conscious-Changing Drugs
- Source: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Vol 3 No 2 (1964)
- Author: Joseph Havens
Joseph Havens began his work into psychedelia with the Leary group before its unceremonious dismissal from Harvard. During his tenure with the Harvard group, Havens gave LSD or psilocybin to 16 graduate students.
Most interesting is the sharp departure from the clinical language of the 1950s to the more flowery spiritual language of the 1960s. Throughout, Haven rests all his data on a single question: do the effects and feelings of psychedelic substances qualify as true religious mysticism or just hallucinations?