Gregory Bateson

Anthropologist, once married to Margaret Mead. 1904-1980.

Bateson was one of many LSD researchers which held the first Human Potential workshop at the Esalen Institute, and moved there in the late '70s. Was friends with Joe K. Adams.

"At Stanford [University], the anthropologist Gregory Bateson - who had been introduced to LSD by Dr. Harold Abramson, one of LSD's pioneers - arranged in 1959 for the poet Allen Ginsberg to take it as part of a research program that was secretly sponsored by the military."
(Stafford, Peter, Psychedelics Encyclopedia, Third Expanded Edition, Ronin Publishing, 1992, pg 44)

In 1943, Bateson was employed by the Office of Strategic Services as a "psychological planner" in Southeast Asia.
(Lipset, David, Gregory Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist, Prentice Hall, 1980, pg 174)

In 1963 Bateson was hired as the associate director of research for John Lilly's Communication Research Institute, which studied dolphins in the Virgin Islands.
(Lipset, pg 241)

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