Ep. 264 – Ram Dass and Timothy Leary: The Explorer’s Club

Ram Dass Here And Now

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🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this talk from his 20-year reunion with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in 1983, Ram Dass shares some reflections about psychedelics and being part of the old Explorer’s Club.

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This episode is the first part of the Ram Dass and Timothy Leary reunion event at Harvard University on April 24, 1983. Check back soon for parts two and three. In this recording:

Ram Dass shares some reflections about psychedelics and why he’s still a part of the old Explorer’s Club.
Detailing an extremely powerful trip he took at a hotel in Kansas, Ram Dass talks about how he was able to find peace in the space between the thoughts arising in his mind.
Ram Dass explores psychedelics as a method and how it helped him connect to the place of unity that lies behind the diversity of human beings.
Finally, Ram Dass talks about how using psychedelics has informed his stance on social action. It’s better for our actions to come out of a sense of joy and love rather than fear and hate.

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“Now, I suspect that I’ve taken LSD once every two years since I first ingested [it] with Timothy. I’ve taken it many, many more times during the first five or six years. But I don’t think I’ve missed a two-year period. I always assume that I’m going to start from a different launching pad because all the things that happened to me in those two years will put me in a different space from which to take off. I’ll explore a new unchanneled kind of plane of reality. And then I also feel like I’m a member of an old Explorer’s Club that has a loyalty to have reunions.” – Ram Dass

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0:59.6	And it changed my feeling towards all individual differences in other human beings.
1:12.6	It allowed me to see to reverse figure in ground so that I saw the way in which beings are one
1:18.6	rather than the way in which there are many, not instead of, but and also.
1:25.6	And the shot in the arm that gives to one's compassion is immense.
1:37.0	Welcome to the Ram Dass Here and Now podcast, where we gather together through space and time
1:43.4	to tap into the perennial wisdom of this incredible wayshower.
1:48.8	I'm Jackie DeBrenska, your host, and you are the Ram Dass community, so thanks for tuning in.
1:56.1	This is episode 264, and it features a solo talk from Ram Dass at his 20-year reunion with Timothy Leary
2:07.2	at Harvard in 1983. And it's this powerful moment of reflection and insight into the roles
2:14.7	that psychedelics, spirituality, and social action has played in his life.
2:21.5	At one point, he refers to that time in his life, these people that all came together as the old
2:28.2	explorers club. So they're bringing together all sorts of profound experiences and explorations.
2:36.0	So in the first part, Ram Dass delves into what it means to honor the legacy of psychedelics,
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