Comments for "Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) on LSD" Video at VideoSift.com

By persephone

persephone (http://www.videosift.com/member/persephone) — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:44:39 -0700

I'm with ya, Benjee and I don't think Ram Dass is an advocate, now, either. He went to India to explore the spiritual experience that LSD opened him up to, within a spiritual setting, afterall, and that has been his life's work ever since.

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:30:11 -0700

his cabal got whacked a few years back when a fire destroyed some homes did it not???

Have always wondered what the next day would be like if everyone on the planet had a simultaneous Hoffman experience...i.e. dosed but not knowing when or how long exactly.....Ever read Riverworld??
Hooray for Bucky Fuller, whom Alpert quotes here, the most sane models for civilization ever ignored and suppressed, and for te forn quote remembered from Leasry, that pshycho...."Trust Your Nervous System"

kinda like the cover of the Hitch hiker's Guide...."Don't Panic!"

By Farhad2000

Farhad2000 (http://farhad.videosift.com) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:16:45 -0700

Choggie you don't want to even know how close I came to dosing the university cafe...

By persephone

persephone (http://www.videosift.com/member/persephone) — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:24:23 -0700

Reading his latest book "Still Here", you get the impression that he doesn't need drugs to get to a place of spiritual awareness, that regular meditation practice is all he needs, now. He leaves out a few details, I guess. www.drugpolicy.org/library/ramdass.cfm

I suppose marijuana is a safer option for him at this stage of his life, he's in his seventies, afterall and also a stroke survivor. If he hadn't dedicated so much of his life to programs like the Death and Dying project and the Hanuman foundation, his approach to spiritual awareness evolving from an expanded consciousness would ring kinda hollow.

By cheesemoo

cheesemoo (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheesemoo) — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:30:37 -0700

Aww, he wasn't actually *on* LSD, he was talking about it.

By Arsenault185

Arsenault185 (http://www.videosift.com/member/Arsenault185) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:53:57 -0700

*Drugs

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:53:57 -0700

Adding video to channels (Drugs) - requested by arsenault185.