Jay Karl Stevens (born 1953?) was a freelance writer and social historian. [1] He is the author of Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (1987), [2] and co-author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart and ethnomusicologist Fredric Lieberman. [3] He is the founder of Applied Orphics, a digital marketing and distribution company, and of Rap Lab, a program bringing at-risk teenagers and professional musicians and poets together. [4] [5] He was last known to be living in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont. [6]