Here, she reflects on her own transformation over the decades. Growing up in a privileged family, she was taught and conditioned not to feel empathy for those less fortunate. Today, however, she believes that compassion is her most important resource and that kindness is the work in which she is now engaged. The discussion also [...]

Here, she speaks passionately about the years she spent with Timothy Leary, traveling in Europe and to Afghanistan — where they were captured by U.S. federal agents — and, then, working intensively in an effort to free him from prison. She discusses the role of psychedelics in reshaping American culture after the second world war. [...]