Ep. 95 - Plumbing the Depths of the Mystery

Ram Dass Here And Now

Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember

Newage, Ramdass, Ram, Society & Culture, Hinduism, Wisdom, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Ram Dass

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Ram Dass talks about the value and limits of psychedelics – when they can enhance the spiritual path and when there can be risks. From ancient times there has been the idea of an elixir sometimes called Soma and the use of natural herbs to effect spiritual transformation. The experience that humans have is the ability to see the universe from a different vantage point- now we could experience the deeper part of our beings that lie behind the thinking mind. Our monitoring system gets turned off so we can have a completely fresh view. When the boundries break down we begin to see the inter-relatedness of everything. We see the way in which it’s all connected- the mystery that lies behind the apparent phenomena. These psychedelics give us an inner validity to our intuitive voice. Ram Dass talks about the original playbook laid out in the early days on set and setting when taking ethneogens. “When I broke through, what I saw was the reality I thought was real was only relatively real- not absolutely real. What happened to my mind was a shift in consciousness.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:55.0	Welcome to Romedos here and now. A new podcast on a new network. We've just launched the
1:20.4	Be Here Now Network. You can go to Be Here Now.com. Of course, you'll get Romedos, which you can also get on
1:30.5	romedos.org. We have moved. Meaning we is Ramdas, Krishna Das, Jack Cornfield, Sharon Salisberg,
1:44.4	Joseph Goldstein, Lama Suriyadas, and Danny Goldberg and Chris Grasso. Of course, the podcast that I do
1:55.6	called Mind Rolling. This is a very gratifying announcement. It's been some time in the works. You're
2:07.4	probably wondering why we haven't heard a recent Here Now podcast from Ramdas and myself.
2:14.3	That's because, well, first of all, we were in Maui doing our spring retreat. Ramdas,
2:22.8	Lama Suriyadas and others. Second of all, we were working on the new network. Isn't it
2:35.5	poignant that this will be under the moniker of Be Here Now. Ramdas's iconic book and iconic
2:46.3	aphorism. It really does spell out what many of these teachers and podcasters and thought leaders
2:58.8	have had in relation to Ramdas's teachings all these decades. So look for some incredible
3:11.6	new events, incredible, I sound like Donald Trump. You ever notice that? That's like terrible.
3:20.3	Amazing. It's amazing. Sorry about that. But we do have some wonderful things coming. We are
3:29.9	bringing over from our old network, Mind Pod Network, which we are still connected to. And we
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