Beneath the Quiet Hills: Timothy Leary, LSD, and the Dark Psychedelic Legacy of Millbrook, New York

Here, in the early 1960s, the sprawling Hitchcock Estate became ground zero for one of the most radical and controversial chapters in American cultural history. At its center was Timothy Leary, the Harvard psychologist-turned-psychedelic evangelist, whose experiments with LSD weren’t just about science — they were about rewriting the very nature of human consciousness. But the story of Millbrook is far more than just a tale of drugs and counterculture. It’s a labyrinth of shadowy government ties, elite family secrets, occult undertones, and a communal search for transcendence that veered dangerously close to madness.