Evil Hippy Jew Now Good

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The man who would become a serene, smiling forerunner of the New Age movement and play a leading role in bringing Eastern spirituality to the West grew up as Richard Alpert in a Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts.

He 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. 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 and Leary wanted to open the mind to a deeper consciousness and conducted experiments that included giving the drug to “jazz musicians and physicists and philosophers and ministers and junkies and graduate students and social scientists.” Afterward, they had them fill out questionnaires about their experiences.

Ram Dass and Leary began including the hallucinogenic drug LSD, which like psilocybin was legal at the time, in their experiments but Harvard was upset that they were using students as subjects and fired them in 1963.

The two former professors later moved to a mansion in Millbrook, New York, made available to them by heirs to the fortune of industrialist Andrew Mellon, and continued their experimentation there. Anti-war protest leader Abbie Hoffman and Beat Generation writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac were among those who dropped in.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who used LSD in his younger years, said the book “transformed me and many of my friends” and George Harrison used the title and general philosophy for one of his post-Beatles songs.

“I was a sort of spiritual uncle to a movement - to a consciousness movement bringing the East and West together,” Ram Dass told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004.

Ram Dass spread his interpretation of Eastern philosophy as an author and lecturer, advising acolytes to be loving

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-ram-dass/ram-dass-psychedelic-drug-pioneer-dies-at-home-aged-88-idUSKBN1YR0KY

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I wonder how many Goyim would have dropped acid with Richie Alpert ?

Ram Dass whatever.
An other useless 60s person.

[woodman]

I wonder how many Goyim would have dropped acid with Richie Alpert ?

Ram Dass whatever.
An other useless 60s person.
The book is 'Be Here Now'. He was onto something. Whether good or bad depends on your view. The premise is that through ego loss, one can find their true self and loose the suffering. Buddha said the same thing. So did Christ (The kingdom of heaven is within you.). Meister Eckart and a bunch of others.

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The book is 'Be Here Now'. He was onto something. Whether good or bad depends on your view. The premise is that through ego loss, one can find their true self and loose the suffering. Buddha said the same thing. So did Christ (The kingdom of heaven is within you.). Meister Eckart and a bunch of others.

He led many astray away from Jesus. Most likely he is in hell now. He did immeasurable damage to an entire generation. That is satanic.

[woodman]

It has been a long time since I read that book. I've looked for it and can't find it. I must have lent it out and forgotten to whom.

He wrote what I consider a far better book a couple of years later. I don't remember the title but it was about prayer and meditation. Very good. A quick line search will turn it up.

"Just as the seed contains the tree, and the tree the seed, so the hidden world of God contains all Creation, and Creation is, in turn, a revelation of the hidden world of God." ---Roger Cook, 1974

Anyway, we are God's seed and how could he not then, be within us. He who breathes life into his children, must of a necessity be that seed of life within them.

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https://townhall.com/columnists/alexmcfarland/2019/12/24/lessons-from-the-wise-men-about-new-age-emptiness-n2558486

It is virtually impossible to understand America in 2019 without taking into consideration the huge shifts of paradigm that came about during the 1960s. Monday’s passing of Richard Alpert, aka Baba Ram Dass — New Age philosophizer and sometimes LSD proselytizer — is a sad reminder of 1960s idealism that promised to change the world, but only really damaged it.

Ram Dass himself admitted that hundreds of LSD trips, pilgrimages to India, periods of celebrity, and thousands of sexual liaisons had left him, at the end of life, depressed and searching.

A big part of the 1960s worldview (as it related to social reform and world improvement, at least) was that old constructs had to go. Society, education, government, family structures, religion— it all needed to be deconstructed and rebuilt. Songwriters and influencers like Ram Dass pulsed out the mantra that it was time for something new. To this very moment -- among political liberals/progressives / neo-socialists / woke-ists -- this wholesale embrace of the nebulous “new” remains a zealous pursuit.

But there is a difference between “old” and “time-tested.” In 1929, influential thinker Gilbert Keith Chesterton spoke of “modern reformers” who see an old fence or gate and say, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” Chesterton, just like wise King Solomon of old, warned that before one generation sweeps away the boundary lines drawn by their fathers, it is wise to familiarize oneself with why those parameters were built in the first place. Ram Dass and his contemporaries promised the world an enlightened utopia. The legacy of the 1960s revolutionaries has left America and Europe with varying degrees of lawlessness and much social damage to undo.

Pop culture leaders of recent decades have promised fulfillment through everything from horoscopes to holistic medicine. It is only human to want to know the truth and find purpose. Christmas provides helpful reminders of this— and the Magi who sought out Jesus are a perfect case in point.

The early Christian writer Tertullian concluded from certain Old Testament prophecies (Psalm 72:10; Isaiah 49:7, 60:3) that the wise men must have been Eastern kings of power and wealth. Who else could undertake the trek to Jerusalem, gain an audience with Jewish and Roman leaders along the way, and be able to afford such extravagant gifts?

As for their spiritual orientation, magos? the Greek word from which magi is derived? could mean a variety of things. In the ancient world, this same root word was used to speak of a learned man, a scientist, or even a sorcerer. Indeed, beyond its appearance in Matthew 2:1-12, magi is found only two other times in the New Testament, both referring to occult activities (Acts 8:9; 13:6-12).

So what connection, if any, exists between the Magi of Matthew 2 and present-day astrology? After all, weren’t they looking for answers in the stars? Commendably, they made it all the way to Jerusalem by following the star. But they needed help to make it all the way to Jesus. Upon arriving in the holy city, they still had to ask, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?” (Matthew 2:2). This company of wise men may have been practitioners of astrology, but their stated purpose in traveling so far (“We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him”) shows that they were not just idolatrous pagans. They followed the light they had in an apparent quest to more fully experience a Deity they did not yet know.

It is touching that Jesus’ birth was made known to lowly shepherds and these non-Jews from the East. Clearly, the Christ child was to be the Savior for all people. These “Wise Men” sought the One who is Himself wisdom. They carried with them earthly treasures on their quest for the One who is the heavenly treasure. And even with a star for guidance, the Magi had far less divine enlightenment than we do.

It has been my privilege to interview many people who were personally involved in efforts to “change the world” during the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the folks I’ve met were influencers who truly made news “back in the day.” Others were just ordinary folk searching for . . . something. It makes me sad that many, like Baba Ram Dass, spent long years on quests that essentially led to nowhere. The stories I’ve heard from people of the counter-culture generations are a mix of hope, disappointment, achievement, loss, and longing. Many have plainly admitted that the ripple effects of the 1960s have been, in large measure, negative.

Perhaps this Christmas you’ll have an opportunity to take a fresh look at the manger scene. I’m sure you’ll see at least one such display. We might note that the wise men: 1) personally worshiped Jesus; 2) sacrificially followed God’s leading; and 3) took a public stand for their beliefs.

The star-gazing searchers of old did not look for a better world through astrology, drugs, or politics. The story of the Biblical Wise Men reflects genuine faith and obedience. Reflecting on their humility, devotion, and honest recognition of truth conveys faith and wisdom that can be an inspiration to us all.