ABSTRACT
Originally trained as a psychologist, Alpert was dismissed from his teaching position at Harvard University in 1963, as a consequence of experiments with LSD, together with his collaborator Timothy Leary. Alpert moved with Leary to the Ananda Ashram, in Millbrook, York, where he helped to found the League for Spiritual Discovery, which advocated the use of drugs for religious purposes. Alpert was one of the co-founders of the Original NeoKleptonian American Church, led by Art Kleps, and he co-authored The Psychedelic Experience (1964) with Leary and Ralph Metzner.
