On April 20, 1962, a group of theology students and professors gathered outside Boston University’s March Chapel, waiting for Good Friday services to begin. These particular services were to be unlike any other: On their way into the chapel, Harvard psychiatrist Walter Pahnke administered the group a dose of psychedelic mushrooms. Those services would go down in history as the “Good Friday experiment.” As part of his Ph.D. thesis under Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), Pahnke sought to test his hypothesis that psychedelic drugs, taken in a religious setting, could provoke a genuine spiritual experience. He was right. Nine out of the 10 students who took the mushrooms reported having a mystical experience. One of those students was the historian H...
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