William Leonard Pickard

The Rose of Paracelsus (eBook, ePUB)

On Secrets & Sacraments

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Handwritten over four years from maximum-security federal prison cells, The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments, is a unique work of psychedelic literature that explores the potential of human cognition. This book follows the narrator, a Harvard graduate student and researcher, as he uncovers an intricate, global psychedelic network through encounters with the Six, clandestine LSD chemists who synthesize planetary-scale batches of the substance, traversing states of consciousness and advancing human evolution.

From Cambridge to Moscow, Oxford to Zürich, Princeton to Mazar-i-Sharif and Bangkok, this book illuminates lifestyles within a rare and elusive organization, one that has evolved special gifts: advanced capacities of thought, memory and perception.

The Rose is a psychedelic biography of its author, William Leonard Pickard, a former Harvard chemist who served 20 years in prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute LSD. An excerpt from The Rose was published in The Nature of Drugs: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact (Synergetic Press, 2021).

One of the documentarians who made a podcast series dedicated to readings of The Rose said of the book, Other than LSD, it's quite possibly the most psychedelic thing you'll ever find on paper.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Synergetic Press
• Seitenzahl: 654
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781957869001
• Artikelnr.: 63644440

Autorenporträt

Alleged by United States federal agencies to have produced 90% of the world's LSD, William Leonard Pickard is a former drug policy fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and deputy director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

As a researcher at Harvard in the 1990s, Pickard warned of the dangers of a fentanyl epidemic, anticipating its deadly proliferation in the illicit drug trade decades before the current opioid crisis. Pickard's predictions and recommendations for prevention have been acknowledged as prescient by organizations like the RAND Corporation.

In 2000, Pickard was convicted of conspiring to manufacture and distribute a massive amount of LSD, and served 20 years of two life sentences, during which time he wrote his debut book, The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments, using pencil and paper. Pickard was granted compassionate release in 2020. Presently, he is a senior advisor for the biotechnology investment firm JLS Fund and the Fireside Project.