Out of print for more than half a century, LSD: A Journey into the
Asked, the Answered, and the Unknown, is now available in a
commemorative edition, with candid commentary, a new introduction
by counterculture journalist Jessica Hundley, and a photographic
portrait of a generation. In the midst of a raging national
controversy around the indiscriminate use of LSD, two authorities
– Richard Alpert, PhD (AKA Ram Dass) and psychoanalyst Sidney
Cohen, MD – spoke out on the dangers, merits, legal regulations
and control of the revolutionary psychedelic drug. Their book was
illustrated with a groundbreaking photo essay by journalist
Lawrence Schiller, whose cover story for Life magazine introduced
America to the sweeping new LSD epidemic and was a precursor to the
federal criminalization of the drug. As the first national
photojournalist to capture the American acid scene from the inside,
Schiller began with a single contact in Berkeley, California, and
built a large network of young, receptive subjects who allowed him
to document their private experiences with LSD. At first, his
contacts were few and difficult. “Many of them were afraid,”
and said no. There were others, however, who were trying to
exercise their rebellion, “and some…had a sort of missionary
quality. They not only wanted to tell about their experiences; they
seemed as though they had to.” Schiller’s reporting expanded to
include Timothy Leary, then on trial in Laredo, Texas, and the
Merry Pranksters, who stopped by his studio for stroboscopic photos
after the Hollywood Acid Test. The deeper he went into the story,
the more questions he had. Questions like, “Is the LSD state
reality or illusion?” and “Can you understand…without having
had “the experience?” Figuring others did as well, he asked
Alpert and Cohen to answer them for readers—from their two
opposing points of view. The unexpected result is perhaps one of
the most deeply informative documents on psychedelics ever
published. It sold close to a million copies. At a time when the
use of consciousness-expanding substances is again making
headlines, the moment that LSD burst out from the rarified world of
Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert’s experiments at Harvard to acid
parties on the Sunset Strip is worth a second look.
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