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Their visionary schemes range from nineteenth-century Transcendentalist experiments in communal living at Brook Farm and Fruitlands to the Harvard Project's LSD research, led by Timothy Leary, in the mid-twentieth century. The search for alternative ways of life often overlapped with the search for the Divine or expanded modes of consciousness and creativity. \u003ci\u003eVisionary New England\u003c\/i\u003e, which accompanies an exhibition at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, connects these traditions to the work of ten contemporary artists with New England ties. Generously illustrated, with ninety color images, the book interweaves analysis and imagery of New England's visionary traditions with reproductions of paintings, photographs, video, and installations by the artists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssays examine New England's spiritualist and utopian practices; Transcendentalist writers' conception of Nature as Other; and the social significance of spiritualism. 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