Cohencametothinkofit:BettyGroverEisner,draftof“SidneyCohen,M.D.:ARemembrance,”box
7,folder3,BettyGroverEisnerPapers,StanfordUniversityDepartmentofSpecialCollections
andUniversityArchives.
“psycholytic”means“mindloosening”:GrinspoonandBakalar,PsychedelicDrugsReconsidered,7.
StanislavGrof,whotrainedasapsychoanalyst:Foradetailedaccountofthiswork,seeGrof,LSD.
A1967reviewarticle:GrinspoonandBakalar,PsychedelicDrugsReconsidered,208.
AnaïsNin,JackNicholson,StanleyKubrick:LeeandShlain,AcidDreams,62.
themostfamousofthesepatientswasCaryGrant:Siff,AcidHype,100.
declaredhimself“bornagain”:Stevens,StormingHeaven,64.
“Allthesadnessandvanities”:Siff,AcidHype,100.
“I’mnolongerlonely”:Ibid.
“Youngwomenhaveneverbefore”:Novak,“LSDBeforeLeary,”103.
asurgeindemandforLSDtherapy:Ibid.
“LSDbecameforusanintellectualfundrug”:Ibid.,99.
Cohenwasmadeuncomfortable:Ibid.,99–101.
Heremaineddeeplyambivalent:Ibid.,100.
“underLSDthefondesttheories”:Cohen,BeyondWithin,182.
“anyexplanationofthepatient’sproblems”:Ibid.
“therapybyself-transcendence”:Cohen,“LSDandtheAnguishofDying,”71.
“relishthepossibility”:Dyck,PsychedelicPsychiatry,1.
“Itwaswithoutquestion”:Huxley,Moksha,42.
“thefoldsofmygrayflanneltrousers”:Huxley,DoorsofPerception,33.
“whatAdamhadseenonthemorning”:Ibid.,17.
“Wordslike‘grace’and‘transfiguration’”:Ibid.,18.
“ameaslytrickle”:Ibid.,23.
“shiningwiththeirowninnerlight”:Ibid.,17.
acommoncoreofmysticalexperience:Huxley,PerennialPhilosophy.
“99percentAldousHuxley”:Novak,“LSDBeforeLeary,”93.
“Itwillgivethatelixirabadname”:Ibid.,95.
Clearlyanewnameforthisclass:Dyck,PsychedelicPsychiatry,1–2.
“hadnoparticularconnotationofmadness”:Ibid.,2.
“uncontaminatedbyotherassociations”:Osmond,“ReviewoftheClinicalEffectsof
PsychotomimeticAgents,”429.
Thegoalwastocreatetheconditions:GrinspoonandBakalar,PsychedelicDrugsReconsidered,
194–95.
hisFBIfile:Hubbard’sFBIfileisavailableattheInternetArchive:
https://archive.org/details/AlHubbard.
thebestaccountwehaveofhislife:Fahey,“OriginalCaptainTrips.”
thetrailofHubbard’slife:Thesefacts,andtheircontradictions,aredrawnfromLeeandShlain,
AcidDreams,andFahey,“OriginalCaptainTrips.”
Weknowthegovernmentkeptclosetabs:LeeandShlain,AcidDreams,45.
“Itwasthedeepestmysticalthing”:Ibid.
“acatalyticagent”:Ibid.,52.
“ifhecouldgivethepsychedelicexperience”:Fahey,“OriginalCaptainTrips.”
“convincedthat[AlHubbard]wastheman”:Ibid.
Osmondabandonedthepsychotomimeticmodel:LeeandShlain,AcidDreams,54.
Hubbardwasthefirstresearchertograsp:Dyck,PsychedelicPsychiatry,93.
“Hesaid,‘Nowhatethem’”:R.C.,“B.C.’sAcidFlashback.”
“Wewaitedforhimlikethelittleoldlady”:LeeandShlain,AcidDreams,51.
impressiveratesofsuccess:Stevens,StormingHeaven,175.