shortly afterward, it is reported that a young american has died from jumping out a window while tripping on lsd, apparently believing he could fly like a bird. troubled by this, louis travels to a u.s. military base in germany to talk to the boy’s parents, as well as to millbrook, new york, to meet the lsd-advocate timothy leary. in the two skillfully interwoven interviews, a flower-bedecked leary boasts that people come to his estate to find god through lsd, while the grieving parents puzzle over what went wrong with their son, who had been so healthy and virtuous. these conversations only leave louis with more questions. he then goes to india to question the spiritual master meher baba about lsd and the search for god.