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The book is dedicated to Aldous Huxley, an early proponent of psychedelics, and includes a short introductory citation from The Doors of Perception, Huxley's 1954 nonfiction work on the subject. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a Tibetan Buddhist text that was written as a guide for navigating the process of death, the bardo and rebirth into ...
Ralph Metzner. Ralph Metzner (May 18, 1936 – March 14, 2019) [1] was a German-born American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later named Ram Dass).
Robert Kimmel Smith (July 31, 1930 – April 18, 2020) [1] was an American novelist and children's author. Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York and first learned to read from his mother Sally. Smith was inspired to become a writer at age eight, when he became bedbound for three months while suffering rheumatic fever and amused himself by ...
Robert Smith (November 3, 1757 – November 26, 1842) was an American politician, diplomat, and admiralty lawyer. He served as the second United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth United States Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811.
Robert Smith was an authority on developing world debt and was cited or quoted in numerous publications including The Providence Journal [5], The Wall Street Journal, [6] The Financial Times [7] and various publications of Euromoney Publications of London.
Smith (known to his friends as Robin, and more widely as "RA") was born in Kelso on 14 May 1909, the elder of two sons of George J T Smith, a tailor, and his wife, Elisabeth (née Allan), a ladies' dressmaker. His education was initially at local village schools, followed by Kelso High School.
Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English musician who is the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, a post punk rock band formed in 1976.
Smith was born as Harry Reynolds in Memphis, Tennessee, on August 8, 1847, and enlisted in the U.S. Army at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. under the assumed name of Robert Smith. He was assigned to Troop M, 3rd U.S. Cavalry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor on October 16, 1877. After leaving the Army, he reverted to his birth name.