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is a contemporary spiritual teacher who wrote the 1971 bestseller Be Here Now. He is well-known for his association with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s, both having been dismissed from their professorships for experiments on the effects of psychedelic drugs on human subjects.Alpert accepted a permanent position at Harvard, where he worked with the Social Relations Department, the Psychology Department, the Graduate School of Education, and the Health Service, where he was a therapist. He was also awarded research contracts with Yale and Stanford.

In the year 1963, R. Gordon Wasson began researching the identity of Indian soma, equipped with the theory that it could possibly be the Amanita muscaria mushroom, a different type of magic mushroom. He traveled widely for more than five years before publishing his controversial results in the book “Soma” in 1969.