Fear turned into exaltation upon the realization that at his truest, he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely.And thus, a spiritual journey commenced.
During a period of experimentation, Alpert peeled away each layer of his identity, disassociating from himself as a professor, a social cosmopolite, and lastly, as a physical being. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success… And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing.Psilocybin and LSD changed that. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean.
In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. We’re talking about how to become a butterfly.” We’re talking about going from a caterpillar to a butterfly
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