Richard Alpert Becomes Ram Dass | 1968 Complete Talk | [Black Screen / No Music / Full Lecture]

In this very complete saga of a talk from WBAI Radio in New York (October 1968), Ram Dass shares in extremely fine detail his journey from being a super fly Harvard Professor to a deeply unsatisfied intellectual researching psychedelic chemicals, to where he is at the time of this recording - an American practitioner of Guru Kripa and Raja Yoga sharing his findings with the western world he returned home to.

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0:00 The Gift Begins!
3:00 Why am I here?
4:20 Quotes Wilhelm’s eulogy
7:40 Fall 1961 Harvard years
8:58 Cat Daddy Ram Dass
11:33 Calls the bluff
13:07 Negative Transference joke
16:48 Tim Leary and the Sacred Mushroom in Mexico
18:00 Ram Dass’ first trip - Tim Leary & Alan Ginsburg
19:30 Ram Dass experiences Ego Death
23:40 A point of awareness
26:29 The Ineffible Experience
28:40 Thrown out of Harvard
32:40 Meher Baba stories
35:30 Quotes Meher Baba on Psychedelics
37:39 1967 Richard Alpert goes searching
39:20 STP Lecture bombs
44:27 Richard Alpert lands in Tehran, Iran
48::03 Giving acid to holy men
50:01 Enter Bhagavan Das
56:40 Goes to caves in the Himalaya
1:00:08 Richard does renunciation
1:01:08 Inception of Be Here Now
1:08:00 Richard Alpert meets Maharaji
1:12:20 Maharaji blows Richard’s mind
1:14:45 Richard Alpert becomes Ram Dass
1:16:35 Maharaji asks for the Yogi Medicine
1:20:45 Describes meeting Maharaji
1:23:15 Define Guru?
1:28:20 Ram Dass asks Maharaji for faith
1:30:08 Quotes William James
1:35:35 Ram Dass reveals his Self
1:37:20 Stories of Hari Das Baba
1:40:25 Define Raja Yoga?
1:52:07 Talks on Tantra
2:01:30 Pure action in life
2:10:45 What is desire?
2:24:03 Ram Dass meditates on Thanksgiving turkey
2:36:08 The soul enters the body
2:47:50 How do I meditate?
2:59:23 Candle Flame Practice
3:06:40 Ram Dass on Omnipresence
3:09:31 Poem reading
3:13:13 Namaste Soul Family! We Love Y’all!

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