![]() ![]() But back in the ’60s, no directions came with this new tool, so Alpert took himself to India in 1967 for some guidance in the kind of spiritual inner exploration he was doing with psychedelics. Seekers in droves have experimented with not only LSD, the substance that caused havoc at Harvard, but mescaline, psilocybin, peyote, Ecstasy and a number of lesser-known hallucinogens. These days there is barely a campus in America where psychedelics can’t be found. Subsequently he moved on to teach at Harvard, but con servative academia in those hallowed halls took exception to some of his now-legendary research methods - the use of psychedelics for consciousness alteration in pursuit of transcendence and transformation - and sent him and fellow researcher, Timothy Leary, packing. ![]() in psychology at Stanford and was hired by the un iversity. The author, a nice Jewish boy from Boston then known as Richard Alpert, completed his Ph.D. ![]() Although many have tried, nobody since has articulated it better in three words or three thousand. In the three words of its ti tle, the author succinctly summed up one of the core values of a “conscious” life before he even got to the firs t page. Home about us advertise contact archives Ram Dass-Always Here, Always Nowįorty years ago, a little paperbound book was published with a simple title and message, Be Here Now. ![]()
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