![]() ![]() ![]() I was a sort of spiritual uncle to a movement - to a consciousness movement bringing the East and West together. ![]() Ram Dass said the subjects found bliss, heightened physical senses, accelerated thought processes, a relaxing of biases and hallucinatory experiences, such as seeing God. Ram Dass and Leary wanted to open the mind to a deeper consciousness and conducted experiments that included giving the drug to "jazz musicians and physicists and philosophers and ministers and junkies and graduate students and social scientists." Afterward, they had them fill out questionnaires about their experiences. In his first psychedelic experience, "the rug crawled and the picture smiled, all of which delighted me," Ram Dass wrote in Be Here Now. Ram Dass had been introduced to marijuana in 1955 by his first patient while working as a health services counselor at Stanford University, but Leary took him farther with psilocybin, the compound that gives certain mushrooms hallucinogenic qualities. Things began to change when Leary joined the Harvard faculty and the two became close friends. ![]() In the meantime, please share reflections on Ram Dass via or #lovingramdass /zt49qS01jt- Dass would later describe himself at the time as a driven "anxiety-neurotic" who had an abundance of knowledge but lacked wisdom.
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