via Wikipedia: 'The Marsh Chapel Experiment, also called the "Good Friday Experiment," was a 1962 experiment conducted on Good Friday at Boston University's Marsh Chapel. Walter N. Pahnke, a graduate student in theology at Harvard Divinity School, designed the experiment under the supervision of Timothy Leary and the Harvard Psilocybin Project. Pahnke's experiment investigated whether psilocybin (the active principle in psilocybin mushrooms) would act as a reliable entheogen in religiously predisposed subjects.' After having been administered the niacin placebo or psilocybin, the test subjects attended this beautiful and rather strange sermon by Rev. Howard Thurman. The reverend is a historic figure in his own right. He was the first black man to become the Dean of Chapel at a predominantly white university; he conversed personally with Gandhi, who encouraged his Civil Rights efforts; and he mentored Martin Luther King, Jr., who was deeply influenced by his book Jesus and the Disinherited. This recording is available on the MAPS website, but I wanted to make it more accessible for those interested. Also, I cleaned up a few spots that were glitchy. I'm interested in recreating this experiment on my own, listening to this sermon while on psychedelics. Please support MAPS by spreading their media and giving financially when able. If you're interested in learning more about the experiment, check out the links below. MAPS: http://maps.org/ Original thesis by Pahnke: http://www.maps.org/images/pdf/books/pahnke/walter_pahnke_drugs_and_mysticism.pdf Rick Doblin's long-term analysis: http://www.maps.org/research-archive/cluster/psilo-lsd/goodfriday.pdf
