by Timothy Leary
(1968, 346 pgs, paperback)
High Priest chronicles 16 psychedelic trips taken in the days before LSD was made illegal. The trip guides or "high priests' include Aldous Huxley, Gordon Wasson, William S. Burroughs, Godsdog, Allen Ginsberg, Ram Dass, Ralph Metzner, Willy ( a junkie from New York City), Huston Smith, Frank Barron and others. Each chapter includes an I-Ching reading, , a chronicle of what happened during the trip, marginalia of comments and quotations and illustrations. A fascinating window into the era.