Psychedelic Review. Vol. 1, No. 1 (June 1963) through No. 11 (Winter 1970/1971) (all published)

A complete collection in 11 issues of the controversial journal on psychedelic substances. Various sizes, octavo and quarto. Original wrappers, some printed, some illustrated, two side-stapled. Issue no. 1 with some light soiling and a small tear to top edge of back cover, other issues with extremely minor scattered handling wear, overall excellent. Cambridge/New Hyde Park/New York City/San Francisco: Psychedelic Review, 1963-1971. Sold together with: The Harvard Review, Vol. I No. 4 (Summer 1963), containing an essay by Timothy Leary on psychedelic substances. This controversial magazine was co-founded and edited by American psychologist Timothy Leary after being fired from Harvard in May 1963, following an essay which was published in the Harvard Review by Leary and his colleague, Richard Alpert (later known as Ram Dass) titled "The Politics of Consciousness Expansion." Their controversial research led to their dismissal and also helped make psychedelics better known in the aftermath of the scandal.

The first issue of the Psychedelic Review came out just one month later, and was edited over the course of its publication by Leary, Paul A. Lee, Ralph Metzner, Rolf von Eckartsberg, and Gunther Weil. The statement of purpose in the first issue reads, "Recent years have witnessed a widespread increase of interest in the alteration and expansion of consciousness. The discovery of...psychedelic substances...has been a major contributing factor in this development...The Psychedelic Review is designed to serve as a forum for the exchange of information and ideas about these issues. It will publish original research reports, scholarly and historical essays, outstanding phenomenological accounts of spontaneous or induced transcendent experiences, and reviews of relevant pharmacological and other literature."

Topics covered in the issues of this journal include hallucinogenic fungi of Mexico, pharmacology of psychedelics, LSD, psychosis, botanical sources of narcotics, psychometabolism, treating alcoholism with psychedelics or cannabis, psilocybin experiences, mescaline, the uterine stimulant effects of morning glory seeds, regulation of drugs, peyote, psychotherapy, treating female "frigidity" with LSD and Ritalin, metaphysics, Zen Buddhism, ayahuasca, transcendental experiences, a yogic experience with mescaline, how to live with schizophrenia, telepathically induced amnesia, marijuana, and the use of psychedelic drugs in prisoner rehabilitation.

A rare, complete collection of the groundbreaking journal in the field of psychedelic research.