Birth of a Psychedelic Culture - Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties

A conversational memoir by two of the most pioneering men at the forefront of consciousness research, Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner.

About the author

Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. He was still Dr. Richard Alpert, an already eminent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr.Timothy Leary. He had continued his psychedelic research until that fateful Eastern trip in 1967, when he traveled to India. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharajji, who gave Ram Dass his name, which means "servant of God." Everything changed then - his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words "Be Here Now" ever since. Ram Dass's spirit has be

Summary

A conversational memoir by two of the most pioneering men at the forefront of consciousness research, Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner.

Product details

• Authors: Ram Dass, Dass Ram, Ralph Metzner, Metzner Ralph, Ram
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9780907791386
• ISBN: 978-0-907791-38-6
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 251 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Assisted by: Gary Bravo
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Psychopharmacology, Drug-Induced States