Ep. 259 – Altered States: American Psychological Association Address Part 1

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Presenting his unique life as a case study, Ram Dass offers insights into the human mind and altered states of consciousness to a gathering of the American Psychological Association.

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This episode of Here and Now is from the first part of Ram Dass’ address to the Meeting of the American Psychological Association in Montreal, Canada, on September 3rd, 1980.

Ram Dass presents his case to the American Psychological Association, talking about a set of experiences and shifting perceptions that confronted him with the issue of what reality truly is.
He explores his time as a professor at Harvard, meeting Tim Leary, and the power of his first psychedelic experience. That experience propelled Ram Dass to years of research with these consciousness-altering chemicals and a deep exploration of the human mind.
Having become a master of getting high, Ram Dass talks about the horrors of coming down. But these studies with psychedelics helped him to empty his mind, become more of a witness to his experiences, and be less associated with his emotional states.
Finally, Ram Dass shares what led to him going to India, his experience of giving his guru psychedelics, and how his concept of time started to change. He closes by talking about the different planes of consciousness.

“I found myself becoming less identified with my emotional states and my psychological qualities and characteristics, and perplexedly enough, at the same moment, more involved with them. I seemed to be living more fully in the moment of the feelings, and yet, at the same moment, being more spacious around them.” – Ram Dass

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0:31.2	with David Nick Turn and Duncan Trussle. when in fact what seemed to be happening was that I was starting to live more or less
0:49.6	simultaneously or at least in shorter sequential bursts on more than one plane of consciousness
0:56.6	at a moment.
1:01.7	So that I found myself becoming less identified with my emotional states and my psychological qualities and characteristics
1:15.0	and perplexedly enough at the same moment more involved with them.
1:21.0	I seem to be living more fully in the moment of the feelings and yet at the same moment being
1:28.7	more spacious around them.
1:30.3	And this is the beginning of the paradoxes that we must face.
1:35.0	Hello, amazing ones and welcome to another Ram Doss here and now episode. I'm your host Jackie Debrinska and you, each of you,
1:49.4	you are part of the Ram Doss community, part of a global network, many generations of people who are curious
2:00.3	about these perennial teachings from this incredible wisdom keeper.
2:06.4	This is episode 259, altered states, American Psychological Association address Part 1, which was given in Montreal, Canada, in 1980.
2:19.8	And the timing of this episode is pretty incredible. It feels very poignant given the
2:27.7	recent and to me surprising ruling by the FDA that returns the map studies on MDMA Psychotherapy for
2:36.6	vets with PTSD back to phase three which is a long arduous and incredibly expensive process. But regardless of
2:49.1	where you land with that
2:55.0	the decision and in this ongoing conversation around psychedelics,
2:56.0	when it comes to whatever happens next,
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