Conciousness & Psychedelics

Ram Dass responds to a question about the potential role of psychedelics as a vehicle for enlightenment - (1976)

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4/30/2006. Maui. Ram Dass discusses change and transformation. He used to see himself as a psychologist and a professor. If you would have told him he was going to be "Ram Dass", he wouldn't have believed it. Seeing himself as a psychology professor had past and future. Then he met his guru in India. That transition came about through using mushrooms. Mushrooms told him he wasn't who he thought he was. He changed by meeting Maharaji. He came back to be the changed person. When he came back, he saw so many people believing their incarnation and he thought if he had seen beyond it, so could they.

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Ram Dass explores where "the gift of expanding consciousness" is taking us in terms of the way we actually lead our lives. He explains what it might look like, in practice, to live your life in a stable and awakened state. Lecture includes an extensive question and answer period. (10/25/1996 - Santa Fe, NM)

Photos: Tom Asher, Rameshwar Das

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In his lecture to the Psychedelic Conference at Chapman University, Ram Dass described the role psychedelics have played in his own spiritual unfolding, and examined the deeper social implications of techniques which open the doors of our conceptual prisons. (Orange, CA - 4/28/1994)

Photos by: David Lenfest, Tom Asher, Rameshwar Das

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This is a session of WRVR Radio’s “Connections” talk show. Ram Dass responds to questions from talk show hosts Arthur Alpert and Eve Kaufmann, as well as listener inquiries, on the topics of hallucinogenics, consciousness, karmic predicaments, desires, and hearing the inner voice. (NY, NY - 10/16/1973)

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A rare and early recording from a 1966 LSD Conference at the University of California - Prior to his travels in India, Ram Dass talks about exploring various uses of psychedelics including creating social institutions that utilize trained personnel to guide psychedelic sessions. He suggests designed experiments with pain relief, stages of death and studies to assist people with special learning abilities. Because the use of psychedelics creates higher states of consciousness it is the experience that is addictive, not the drug or method itself.

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