Ram Dass, Beloved Spiritual Teacher, Has Died

Tricycle ^ | 12/2/2019 | Joan Duncan Oliver

[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.

[Chickensoup]

who remembers?

Orange Sunshine

[Chickensoup]

Abby was an ass.

[a little elbow grease]

"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.

:-)

[a little elbow grease]

"Abby was an ass."

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Who is Abby?

Do you have the intelligence of chicken soup?

[a little elbow grease]

His famous book was “Be There Now”

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You almost had it.

[BunnySlippers]

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

[a little elbow grease]

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

[tired&retired]

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.

[tired&retired]

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.

[Radix]

Rammed Ass?

[wardaddy]

Nick Sand who died recently was the chemist

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

[wardaddy]

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