Zihuatanejo Project
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The Zihuatanejo Project was a psychedelic training center and
Background
Leary and Alpert first discovered the town of Zihuatanejo in 1960. After the Marsh Chapel Experiment in 1962 they decided the area would make a good location for a training center.[2] The idea for the community was influenced by Aldous Huxley's fictional novel, Island (1962).[3][4]
Training program
Thousands of people applied to the IFIF in the hopes of joining the project in Zihuatanejo.
Closure
Immigration officials were tipped off to the project when the Mexican media began reporting stories about an "LSD Paradise". In the summer of 1963, after only six weeks (May 1 - June 16), the Mexican authorities shut the community down. Officials removed the group from Zihuatanejo and sent them to Mexico City aboard a chartered DC-3.[7] Several failed attempts were made to move the training center to Dominica and Antigua. In August 1963, with the help of wealthy patrons, Leary and their group moved to the Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook, New York, where they stayed until 1968.[2][8][9]
Media
Leary talks extensively about the project on the 1966 recording, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: Timothy Leary Ph.D. speaks on L.S.D.[10]
References
- ISBN 0202363244.
- ^ ISBN 0872865754.
- ISBN 0-15603-206-6. 186.
- ISBN 0-06165-594-5. 2011, 99, 112.
- ISBN 0-8021-3062-3. 96-98.
- ISBN 9780907791386.
- ISBN 0-85634-015-4. Hollingshead's account is from Dusheck, George. July 2, 1963. "Paradise Lost by Mexico LSD Colony." San Francisco News-Call Bulletin.
- ISBN 1-4027-2873-5
- ISBN 0-415-93639-X. 260-261.
- OCLC 828183205.
Further reading
- Downing, Joseph J., 1964, "Zihuatanejo: An Experiment in Transpersonative Living." In Richard Blum: Utopiates: The Use and Users of LSD-25, 142-77. New York: Atherton Press. ISBN 0202363244
- Fisher, Gary. 2005. "Treating the Untreatable." In Roger Walsh and Charles S. Grob: Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics, 103-17. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 1423747720
- "No Illusions", Newsweek. June 10, 1963
- ISBN 0-8021-3587-0