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Presenting his unique life as a case study, Ram Dass offers insights into the human mind and altered states of consciousness to a gathering of the American Psychological Association.
“I found myself becoming less identified with my emotional states and my psychological qualities and characteristics, and perplexedly enough, at the same moment, more involved with them. I seemed to be living more fully in the moment of the feelings, and yet, at the same moment, being more spacious around them.” – Ram Dass
This episode of Here and Now is from the first part of Ram Dass’ address to the Meeting of the American Psychological Association in Montreal, Canada, on September 3rd, 1980.
Ram Dass presents his case to the American Psychological Association, talking about a set of experiences and shifting perceptions that confronted him with the issue of what reality truly is.
He explores his time as a professor at Harvard, meeting Tim Leary, and the power of his first psychedelic experience. That experience propelled Ram Dass to years of research with these consciousness-altering chemicals and a deep exploration of the human mind.
Having become a master of getting high, Ram Dass talks about the horrors of coming down. But these studies with psychedelics helped him to empty his mind, become more of a witness to his experiences, and be less associated with his emotional states.
Finally, Ram Dass shares what led to him going to India, his experience of giving his guru psychedelics, and how his concept of time started to change. He closes by talking about the different planes of consciousness.
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Ram Dass on Altered States of Consciousness – Here and Now Podcast Ep. 259 – https://youtu.be/hLTZ_0s_VLo
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 259 – Altered States: American Psychological Association Address Part 1 – https://beherenownetwork.com/https://beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-here-and-now-ep-259-altered-states-american-psychological-association-address-part-1/
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It’s because he is such a self-realized being on every plane ❤ 50:28
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It's always a privilege to listen to this man's words of wisdom. ❤
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I've loved listening to the first 150 eps of the Ram Dass podcast. I'd never heard Ram Dass speak until I got Shanghai'd by the violent white state terrorists in Fremont County & spent 25 days in the pokey. It was like being back in Jerzy Rosenberg's architectural history classes or a lecture by Bernard Tschumi or a performance by Karen Finley. I'm still waiting for Harvard to endow the Timothy Leary Chair in Psychonautics and give it to me. 😊
I'd like to open Pandora's Box and become what I become 😊
The case was presenting itself 🙂
Awareness sits behind consciousness & the void lies beyond that.
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What a mastery of language! All spoken directly from the heart❤ The power in these recordings is wonderful. This lecture brought me to places. Ram Dass has the same mastery as Alan Watts for being sovereign in western and eastern traditions, but the fact that Ram Dass has managed to channel Maharaji, Neem Karoli Baba so powerfully as to have it land in a modern mind is bewildering. Always in my heart RAM RAM ❤🙏🏻
“I found myself becoming less identified with my emotional states and my psychological qualities and characteristics, and perplexedly enough, at the same moment, more involved with them. I seemed to be living more fully in the moment of the feelings, and yet, at the same moment, being more spacious around them.” – Ram Dass
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