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.

[Big Red Badger]

Ouch,
Shots Fired!
.
Guess I bummed Your Trip,
Bro.

[moovova]

“...“Ram Dass” and immediately assume the guy is a gay porn star...”

Any word on his co-star “Take Diss”?

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's not wise to assume somebody's in hell, or wish them in hell.

Judge things that are outwardly manifest: words and actions, yes. But judging someone's interior disposition or their eternal destiny is beyond your pay grade, or mine.

[be-baw]

:)

No problems here Bro. Enjoy your holidays.

[Two Kids' Dad]

+1

[Seruzawa]

LSD is one of the most evil drugs ever discovered. There is no hell hot enough for its proponents.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Ha! I saw a guy with a “Devils Diciples” jacket a couple of years ago and laughed at the misspelling.

[dfwgator]

Who?

[dfwgator]

Is he the one who said, “What is? is. What was? will be. What will be *was*, but will be again.”

[Fightin Whitey]

It probably says something about me that I see the name “Ram Dass” and immediately assume the guy is a gay porn star and/or a Democrat in Congress.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

I recall that in the 6660’s I was doing some heavy chanting as instructed by hypnotist/guru Hey Baba Rebop.

[MomwithHope]

I was more of a disciple of Yabba Dabba Do. Those were the days.

[wardaddy]

Ohm ohm ohm ohm ohm.....

Richard Alpert

Godspeed bud

You were stuck in a Golden Gate park time capsule no?

[wardaddy]

Millennials take weak acid

“Like wow man I took four tabs last night and was asleep by one am”

Or my favorite “I can sleep on acid”

Today LSD is thankfully about one eighth to one tenth the strength we took 40-50 years ago

I have not tripped since a Jer and Bob and Phil and Mickey and Keith and Donna and Bill played Tuscaloosa in 1977

Yes it’s LSD 25 no question

Folks don’t proof well today with so much info out there..

I’m 62

I know people who still trip on LSD and mushrooms

Old people

And they are not liberals ...more libertarian ...like Trump

[wardaddy]

That Buckaroo Banzai

Peter Weller

[knarf]

I'm 72, stage 4 emphysema and have always lived in no fear …. but it's coming to an end ...

I keep both barrels loaded at all times.

Thank you for your comment

[gathersnomoss]

No. I believe you are mistaking Brown 25 for a type of hallucinogenic drug. It is far from it.

[wardaddy]

Richard Alpert unlike Timothy Leary was a homosexual

[gathersnomoss]

What? You must have caught the wrong bus.

[wardaddy]

I think he reverted back to Judaism to some degree towards the end of his life

Only person of that era that really I held admiration for in the long run was Stewart Brand

And to a degree Kesey whose approach to psychedelics I found more in tune