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Ram Dass, Beloved Spiritual Teacher, Has Died
Tricycle ^ | 12/2/2019 | Joan Duncan Oliver

Posted on 12/23/2019 6:25:21 AM PST by Borges

If there is an enduring figure emblematic of the consciousness revolution of the 1960s and 70s, it is arguably the Harvard professor and LSD researcher-turned-spiritual leader born Richard Alpert but known the world over as Ram Dass. With Timothy Leary, his colleague in the Harvard psychology department, he forever changed a generation of Americans through his explorations with psilocybin, LSD-75, and other psychedelics before reinventing himself as a spiritual teacher and humanitarian—a bhakti yogi with love as his path. When Ram Dass died on Sunday evening, one of the most beloved voices of the counterculture fell silent. He was 88 years old.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: babaramdass; beherenow; dumbass; harvard; lsd75; psilocybin; ramdass; ramdassobit; richardalpert; timothyleary
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To: wardaddy

who remembers?

Orange Sunshine


101 posted on 12/25/2019 6:12:07 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: a little elbow grease

Abby was an ass.


102 posted on 12/25/2019 6:14:30 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: wardaddy; Mariner; Tom in SFCA
"THREE DAYS LATER, on 19 April 1943, Hofmann intentionally ingested 250 MICROGRAMS of LSD. This day is now known as "Bicycle Day", because he began to feel the effects of the drug as he rode home on a bike. This was the first intentional LSD trip."

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This is funny to me as I remember a "window pane" experience of mine back in 1974. I took it and started riding my bicycle and ended up riding around in circles on a very old and bumpy cobblestone street in Squirrel Hill in the city of Pittsburgh.

After I got off the bike ..... I went inside and told my wife I felt like a circus elephant on that bicycle. It was awful.

:-)

103 posted on 12/25/2019 6:19:35 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: Chickensoup
"Abby was an ass."

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Who is Abby?

Do you have the intelligence of chicken soup?

104 posted on 12/25/2019 6:23:38 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: tired&retired
His famous book was “Be There Now”

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You almost had it.


105 posted on 12/25/2019 6:30:41 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: John Milner

He and Timothy Leary were two professors who “dropped out” together in the 60s. they had a falling out, yet later reconciled.


106 posted on 12/25/2019 6:35:27 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS!)
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To: Chickensoup

.... yes those sweet little light orange barrels......... I think they were mostly speed.


107 posted on 12/25/2019 6:36:33 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: a little elbow grease

Thanks for the correction.... I was saying it 3rd person...

Great thing about getting old, between the decreased eyesight, hearing and memory I have learned to laugh at myself and I shall never run out of humor.


108 posted on 12/25/2019 6:45:48 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: a little elbow grease

Although I managed to never try it, many of my friends were doing hits of acid daily in the early 70’s.

Those truly were the good years to be teenagers, if we lived through it.


109 posted on 12/25/2019 6:49:19 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Borges

Rammed Ass?


110 posted on 12/25/2019 7:01:11 AM PST by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: Chickensoup

Nick Sand who died recently was the chemist

I knew some of his associates in the Austin area in the 80s


111 posted on 12/25/2019 11:24:20 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: a little elbow grease

I don’t think Trump has ever used any intoxicant except nookie


112 posted on 12/25/2019 11:26:29 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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