here, and that sparked in me religious mysticism which is why i'm a religion reporter for the secular press for 25 years for the san fransisco examiner and chronicle. it was these experiences that got me interested in that originally, but in the end, i realized it's not about the drugs. i mean, it's about taking those experiences we have, like the wander, the awe, the feeling of interconnectedness, and finding a place for that in the rest of our lives. that, i think, is what it is important. before the book, the harvard psychedelic club, they all had their own way of coming to grips with the craziness of the 60s, and the 70s, and bringing that into their lives so first of all, since this just did start right here, i wanted to do -- i want to do two readings from the book. the first is short, and it's -- it's about when these four guys crossed paths in harvard in the fall of 196 # -- 1961, an extraordinary time in history, as mentioned in the enter doux, a time of -- introduction, a time of optimism and optimism and no one like him before was in the white house talking about home and c