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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Ram ram ram. Thank you for this masterpiece. Ram ram ram
This is the epitome of 'thought provoking '. Thank you for putting it here.
This is so priceless. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks so much for this magical gift! I listened to his brilliant talks thru the years, from the seventies on…Have had many great teachers, he is one of them, so deeply grateful…..
Ram Ram Ram
I love you baba Ram Dass
Thanks for this that is being pointing out to discover for oneself. Wishing love, grace, courage and understanding for all. Bless all here now.
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The most beautiful talk of all time in my life until now. I mean it. ❤
This recording is such a gift. Thank you.
Ram Dass🙏🏼
I didn’t realize his name was the character in lost who never ages