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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: alexander_busek

The biker gang intentionally misspelled the word in their own name, so even though it’s “wrong,” it’s correct as far as the name of that particular group.


61 posted on 12/23/2019 9:36:42 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: BunnySlippers

He and Leary fell out hard in the late 70s I think when Alpert denounced Leary publicly as an informant

They reconciled before Leary’s death in 1996


62 posted on 12/23/2019 9:39:32 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: wardaddy

My comment still applies! ….ewww!


63 posted on 12/23/2019 10:33:37 AM PST by Reily
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To: gathersnomoss

If you’re on the bus, you’re on the bus.
If you get off the bus, you’re still on the bus.
If you never get on the bus, you’re nowhere.

I know she said.
I know he said.
Together they said, We know.
and I said, Don’t tell me.
I’m not here man. I’m in Vietnam Baby...


64 posted on 12/23/2019 10:38:38 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Reily

He tried being straight fathered a child he conceived with an undergrad at Stanford maybe when he was 24 before Celebrity

Dass opposed Leary’s commercialization of acid culture and his narcissistic self aggrandizement


65 posted on 12/23/2019 10:40:05 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: Borges

He never had a Moody Blues song written about him. What a shame.


66 posted on 12/23/2019 10:53:45 AM PST by Disambiguator ("Progressives" want government in action. Conservatives want government inaction.)
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To: Borges
Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019)

I always thought the name Ram Dass was a private joke even if his Guru gave it to him. He had to know how it sounds.

67 posted on 12/23/2019 11:54:36 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“Resettling in America in 1974, he started a new life based on a different kind of turn-on—meditation—and his own synthesis of Buddhist, Hindu, Advaita, and Sufi teachings, and later, Jewish mysticism.

The key words here are “his own.” This is not of God. It is against God and thus is of God’s enemy, Satan. Mr. Alpert and his fellow-travelers promoted psychedelic drug use and paganism to an entire generation while denying and denigrating the one true God. It does no one any good to deny this or try to water it down.


68 posted on 12/23/2019 12:48:17 PM PST by Tom in SFCA
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To: Borges

Rammedass.
Hmm.


69 posted on 12/23/2019 12:54:09 PM PST by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I prefer Leadbelly's version of "Black Betty".

70 posted on 12/23/2019 10:08:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Hippies. All the same.

http://www.google.com/search?q=be+here+now


71 posted on 12/23/2019 10:12:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: alexander_busek; Two Kids' Dad; knarf

“DEVILS DICIPLES” is, in fact, the name of the club.


72 posted on 12/23/2019 10:47:08 PM PST by golux
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To: knarf

Knarf, “End Stage” COPD isn’t a death sentence anymore. Watch your health and keep fighting. The world needs more 1%ers like you.


73 posted on 12/23/2019 10:52:36 PM PST by golux
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To: SunkenCiv

I saw that name on the Wiki death roll. I thought it was a gay porn star... well, turned out he was bi.


74 posted on 12/24/2019 2:34:12 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: knarf

Prayers for you, dude.


75 posted on 12/24/2019 2:36:09 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: SunkenCiv

...and apparently I wasn’t the only one who made the same observation. :-P


76 posted on 12/24/2019 2:37:15 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: golux
I know, I said as much ... the chapter I was familiar with was in JP, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

I stole the name to describe myself as an influential hippy, rebel type back in the 60's and 70's.

I created this meme with Abby Hoffman in mind;




77 posted on 12/24/2019 6:04:49 AM PST by knarf (est line of the year !)
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To: Borges

“Be here now.”
- Baba Rum Raisin


78 posted on 12/24/2019 7:09:51 AM PST by Pennsyltucky Boy (bitterly clinging to our constitutional rights in PA)
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To: Tom in SFCA
You're right.

From another article about Ram Dass: "Ram Dass himself admitted that hundreds of LSD trips, pilgrimages to India, periods of celebrity, and thousands of sexual liaisons had left him, at the end of life, depressed and searching. "

It sounds like he was misled by the Deceiver--- and had a big hand in misleading thousands of others.

Satan is cruel.

79 posted on 12/24/2019 7:12:10 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: Borges

........... see you soon.


80 posted on 12/24/2019 11:09:01 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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