Zihuatanejo Project

After the Marsh Chapel Experiment in 1962 they decided the area would make a good location for a training center.

Amenities cost $200 a month per person, including food and lodging in bungalows near a secluded beach.

During the first training session in 1962, Leary and 35 guests rented the Catalina Hotel for a month using their own version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead as a guide book for LSD sessions; Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert helped manage the group.

Immigration officials were tipped off to the project when the Mexican media began reporting stories about an "LSD Paradise".

In August 1963, with the help of wealthy patrons, Leary and their group moved to the Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook, New York, where they stayed until 1968.