By Kristin Leaman
Title: Jean Millay papers, 1964-2001
Predominant Dates:1964-1980
Primary Creator: Millay, Jean
Extent: 0.2 Cubic feet. More info below.
Date Acquired: 12/15/2008. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Psychoactive Substances Research Collection at Purdue University., Psychotropic drugs
Forms of Material: Articles, Correspondence, Photographic prints
Languages: English
Jean Millay earned an Associate of Arts degree (with honors) from Sacramento City College in 1948, a BA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962, and a PhD in Human Science from the Saybrook Institute in 1978. She also completed a General Secondary Teaching Credential and Special Credential in Art from the University of California in 1963. Millay acted as the art director for the development of interactive educational software at DynEd International before her retirement and created the computer art for interactive educational programs for Picodyne Corporation and later DynEd International. She, along with Dean Brown and Tim Scully, created INTEGRATION, the first biofeedback stress management game for the IBM pc in 1984. She is known for her collaboration with Allan Willis in filming The Psychedelic Experience, winner of the 1965 San Francisco International Film Festival and the Harold L. Zellerbach Foundation Award. Millay served as the president of the Parapsychology Research Group in San Francisco for six years and co-invented the stereo brain wave biofeedback light sculpture with Tim Scully, which was demonstrated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1972. She has written books and articles including Multidimensional Mind: Remote Viewing in Hyperspace with a foreword by Stanley Krippner; she edited Silver Threads alongside Dean Brown and Beverly Kane and Radiant Minds by Russell Targ and Dean Radin.
Source(s):
Jean Millay.
“UriGeller.com.” Web Master. September 15, 2011. www.urigeller.com/millay.htm
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Accruals: 20081215.1; 20090203; 20110825
Alternate Extent Statement: 1 box
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions: To the extent that she owns the copyright, the donor has assigned the copyright of her works to the Archives; however, copyright of some items in this collection may be held by their respective creators. Consult the reference archivist for details.
Acquisition Source: Jean Millay
Acquisition Method: Donation
Preferred Citation: MSP 63, Jean Millay papers, Karnes Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Processing Information: All materials have been placed in archival housing.
Finding Aid Revision History: Revised 2/21/2013
Other URL: http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/fa/pdf/millay_j.pdf
The Psychedelic Experience [DVD]
Seeds of the Sixties [CD and typed manuscript]
Photocopied photograph from the 1964 Big Sur, Esalon Conference
Photocopied photograph of Timothy Leary, possibly in his 80s
Photocopied photograph of Jean Millay and Timothy Leary when he was at Vacaville Prison, 1973
Article written by Timothy Leary in Playgirl
Postcard to Jean Millay from Timothy Leary
Letter from Wesley Hiler to Dr. Krippner about Jean Millay's edited tapes of conversations she had with Timothy Leary in Vacaville Prison
AHP Newsletter, Jean Millay guest editor, May 1979
King, Marjorie. "A Visit With Tim Scully." AHP Newsletter. December 1978 [photocopy and typed manuscript]
"The Return of Timothy Leary." The Sunday Star Bulletin. November 25, 1979 [photocopy]
"Thinking About Thinking: Examining the Structures of Education" by Jean Millay, printed in Perspective, October/ November 2001
Letter to Michael Horowitz from Jean Millay [typed copy]
Letter to Dr. Krippner from Wesley Hiler [photocopy] DUPLICATE
Letter to the editor of the New Yorker from Michael Horowitz [typed copy]
Letter to Time from Jean Millay [typed copy]
