Timothy Leary founded The Castalia Foundation in 1963. He began his research into psychedelics as a Harvard Professor when, in 1960, Tim flew to Mexico and ate magic mushrooms for the first time.
Comparing his first psychedelic experience to tenure at Harvard, Tim said, "I learned more about my brain [and] psychology, in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than I had in the preceding 15 years doing research".
The Castalia Foundation originally operated out of a sprawling mansion in Millbrook, New York. This magical house was the launch-pad from which hundreds of explorers made LSD voyages into the unknown.
Timothy Leary was fired from Harvard for being too adventurous in his enthusiasm for advancing human consciousness. Academia was unable to contain the advances in neurological self-exploration that LSD enabled.
The Nixon Government imprisoned Timothy Leary multiple times based on whatever crimes they were able to manufacture. Nixon called Tim "the most dangerous man in America". Tim climbed over his prison wall and escaped.
LSD is the cure for centralized government, and for this reason it has always been vilified by those in power. Timothy Leary believed that humanity would soon evolve to expand its collective consciousness beyond servitude.
The Castalia Foundation has access to the most extensive psychedelic study laboratory in the world. Because we are based in unceded territory, our cohorts can independently test and evaluate psychedelic protocols that include LSD, mescaline and MDMA. No other research group comes close to this degree of freedom.
We are entirely funded by the Rosemary Woodruff Memorial Trust and we do not beg for, or accept, donations from the public, or from any government, or corporation. We are the only psychedelic research group in the world that operates outside government control. We are based in legally unceded territory.
The Castalia Foundation continues the work of Timothy Leary in advancing awareness and understanding of the psychedelic state and the medicines which can induce it. Society has matured since the 1960s, when legacy-government agents spread fear and paranoia regarding LSD and cannabis.
