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. Memorial services will be announced shortly. He was a guide for thousands seeking to discover or reclaim their spiritual identity beyond or within institutional religion.
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