Ram Dass 1931-2019
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“When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.”
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RIP
RIP
I read many of his books.
Be Here Now
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Love
Love
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rip
rip
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Be Here Now was like chicken soup for people coming down from heavy trips. Thank you Doctor.
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Saw one of his home webcast
Saw one of his home webcast lectures in a packed theater about 10 years ago. Was still insightful and eloquent. Be Here Now. Period.
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Be here
Be here
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Ram you will be missed.
Ram you will be missed.
Here's one of his most popular lectures: https://youtu.be/Ogv-RNoi_OM
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But a 1963 article about
But a 1963 article about their psychedelic experimentation in the Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper, led to Dr. Alpert and Leary’s dismissal. The former was fired for dispensing LSD to an undergraduate student in violation of his agreement with the University, the latter for dereliction in his teaching duties.
Within two years they were running an LSD research and experimentation center at a farm near Millbrook, N.Y., where Dr. Alpert undertook a study that led to his disenchantment with the hallucinogens.
As told by Lattin, he locked himself in a bowling alley with five others, where once every four hours for two weeks they ingested huge doses of LSD. But it turned out that the larger the dosage, the less effective it was. The highs were no longer so high. Moreover, by the end of two weeks all of the participants had come to thoroughly hate each other.
“It was the beginning of the end of the dream,” observed Lattin. “Alpert was starting to see that LSD would not save the world.”
He went to India in 1967 to seek the guidance of an Indian guru, who gave him a new name. Back in Boston, he was met by his father, aghast at the sight of his son, then 39, with his hair and beard long and unkempt. He was barefoot, wearing a long white robe and carrying a tamboura for chanting.
“Quick! Get in the car before someone sees you,” George Alpert told him, according to an account in the Times. The father mocked his son as “Rum Dumb.” Other family members adopted more profane variants.
Ram Dass devoted the rest of his life to teaching, lecturing and writing about the techniques and principles of his new lifestyle, which he described as staying fully present in the moment.
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Read "Be Here Now" when I was
Read "Be Here Now" when I was going through a rough patch. Was very helpful.
-a little humor here can't hurt either...from Thoughts on the Dead Twitter
https://twitter.com/ThoughtsOnGD/status/1209188470406729731
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I grew up in Laurel Canyon
I grew up in Laurel Canyon and there were a lot of adventurous kids (teens) whose parents didn't know what to make of the changing times and drugs in the mid-'60s. Some of those parents came to my parents, who were known to be very open and accepting people, and asked them to help them with information about what LSD was all about and what they needed to know about it. My parents talked to a couple of friends of theirs who knew Richard Alpert and they arranged a get together at our house for him to speak, people could talk with him, ask questions, etc. I wasn't there (out of town) but I heard that it was a wonderful evening of shared information and satisfying open dialogue. People felt equipped in some way to help their kids through...
He grew to become a treasure, a spark of love in our universe.
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In a world of talkers, he was
In a world of talkers, he was a walker.
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Wow Judit, that is a special
Wow Judit, that is a special nugget of history! Love that story.
Have read interesting articles over the years about Laurel Canyon.
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>>>>>teaching, lecturing and
>>>>>teaching, lecturing and writing about the techniques and principles of his new lifestyle, which he described as staying fully present in the moment.
RIP Ram Dass..
I actually grew up in the same town he lived in, though never met him then. Loved "Be Here Now".
However...
...he was giving the same talk for 40 years. Every time I saw him.
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interesting story judit.
interesting story judit.
rip.