Talking at a MAPS convention within the early Nineties, Ram Dass seems again at a few of the advantages and errors of the work he and Timothy Leary did with psychedelics within the Sixties.
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This episode of Right here and Now comes from a chat Ram Dass gave at a MAPS (Multidisciplinary Affiliation for Psychedelic Research) convention within the early Nineties. It instantly adopted a chat given by Timothy Leary.
- Ram Dass displays on the humorous place he’s in between his need for this gathering of MAPS to placed on a great face and be accountable researchers, and his feeling that what has occurred is much extra profound than that. “What we’re doing now,” he says, “is looking for a approach to carry extra folks alongside via making an attempt to legitimize our recreation in society. However the underground course of by which psychedelics have continued for use within the society and have come into mainstream consciousness, that goes on impartial of whether or not we lose or win on the entrance we’re speaking about in analysis.”
- Ram Dass speaks to a few of the advantages that got here out of the pioneering analysis into psychedelics he performed with Timothy Leary at Harvard College within the Sixties. This consists of therapeutic potentialities, opening folks as much as knowledge from the East, and shifting our notion of actuality.
- Ram Dass finishes by speaking about a few of the errors they made alongside the best way, together with how they obtained too concerned with the revolutionary facets of psychedelics fairly than the evolutionary parts. However finally, the genie is already out of the bottle in the case of psychedelics. “Reality can’t be repressed,” says Ram Dass. “It can’t be legislated out of existence. Psychedelics are a wholesome pseudopod of society, they usually need to be honored. And they are going to be honored.”
- This episode closes with a stay efficiency of “Sit Round The Hearth” carried out by East Forest on the 2023 LSRF Ram Dass Legacy Retreat. This soundscape interweaves knowledge from Ram Dass round identification, interior work and interconnection. “Sit Round The Hearth” was composed by East Forest and Jon Hopkins for the album Music For Psychedelic Remedy.
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“I feel we obtained a bit of confused about evolution and revolution. I feel we performed with the revolutionary facets of psychedelics, when to me, the way more fascinating subject is the evolutionary facets. I feel that had we been extra advanced in our knowledge, and never feeling we have been inventing the wheel another time, we’d have had an appreciation of what the fears have been of the society and learn how to work with these fears fairly than simply pitting ourselves in opposition to them. I don’t assume the best way we did it was the one method it might’ve been achieved.” – Ram Dass
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