Harvard Is Once Again The Center of Psychedelics: A Conversation with Patrick Schmidt

<p><a href='https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3994698577663380344/7422583676654207131?hl=en'></a>If our current era is one of politics, technology, and economics, it's fair to say that the 60s were an era where social science, self-reflection and cultural anthropology ruled the day.</p> <p>And if places like Stanford, and MIT are the intellectual hubs of our day, Harvard was an intellectual hub of the ’60s</p> <p>Nowhere was that more true than in Harvard's establishment of a Department of Social Relations.  With figures like Timothy Leary, Ram Das, and Ted Kaczynski, as part of the faculty, it was an epicenter of its time.</p> <p>Today Harvard is restarting psilocybin reaching and launching a new center for the neuroscience of psychedelics in association with Mass. General Hospital.  So it’s a good time to look back at the antecedents of this effort.</p> <p>Patrick Schmidt has written about it in his new book HARVARD’S QUIXOTIC PURSUIT OF A NEW SCIENCE.</p> <p>My conversation with Patrick Schmidt:</p>