I worked at that prison during this time, but didn’t,t know anything re RD. Sometime later an inmate told me about a guy who wanted to teach us yoga. We became friend and he introduced me to RD. Since then, I’ve been a devotee, listening to all his tapes, reading his books, going to conferences and having 3 Skype sessions with him. He’s been a blessing in my life, now, being 88.
That is so cool. I met Ram Dass in Hawaii in 2012-13 approx can’t remember exact date. I’ve been a devotee to Maharaj-Ji ever since. Love is a powerful force
I did 6 months in prison, 3 of those in solitary (outside US) for possession of plant medicine. On the outside people thought it must have been due to "bad" karma.... little do they know that my time in that cell was a gift. I learned that I'm free no matter where my body, and that I was more free then, inside that small cell, than I was before I went in. Ironically I was sentenced to rehab. It wasn't an easy process at times, but I definitely laughed a LOT at the irony, which I ultimately felt was a message / conversation from creator saying "so you think you're quite happy with your identity as form? let me give you this opportunity, and see what you make of it". Thank you for the teachings.
Can you go into detail how you managed to spend those 3 months in solitary without going insane? I once spent 10 days on a silent meditation retreat and was very happy when it was over... can't imagine what 3 months would be like.
This saintly man brought me back from the brink of insanity. I had a pretty bad freakout on LSD. I felt so alone and unable to relate it to anybody at all that was in my life. I just thought I went crazy, but then I heard this guy talking about all these things and more besides. It really helped me.
High Brother! Great ambassador for eastern mysticism and consciousness expanding psychedelics. If there were more like him in the world it would be a happier and safer place. Fly on high brothers and sisters! 🙏🏽
This knowledge is absolutely priceless. Ram Dass, Terrance McKenna, and Alan Watts have helped me understand and get the most out of my experiences, and the truth about life and death.
Unfortunately Terrence Mc Kenna died without any real spiritual Transformation as tripping in & out does NOT accomplish THAT... Ram Dass was smart enough to not get stuck but moved on to the REAL Quest after he had exhausted ALL LSD could ever do... So surely & fortunately Ram Dass & even Alan Watts are NOT stuck in the same box of druged Ego with Mc Kenna... Please don't confuse drug addiction with genuine spiritual Transformation... That would be a really tragic & very costly mistake caused by the ignorance of human Ego.... 😘🙏
Have listened to many of these, this one is particularly good. Found Seth books at 24 and knew Immediately i found truth, now at 65, ive never changed that understanding. Same exact teaching. ALL is choosen by the self, no mistakes ever. "Death is completely safe" lol, love that quote. I always feel good listening to these.
Namasté. I've missed you since you passed even though I didn't meet you in person. I appreciate you letting me stay at your house in Maui with you while I visited my ex girlfriend. You're a really nice person. Watching these videos of you' makes me feel so alive. I've missed you since your passing even though we didn't meet this lifetime and I don't know why but you're still a legend Ram Dass, ram ram.
Ever since I read “Be Here Now” back in the 70’s, once you’re awake, it’s hard to go back to sleep. All the mushroom, LSD and mescaline trips made so much more sense through his teachings and were fun instead and being serious. What a long strange trip it’s been.
RD mentions very briefly the word NARA. This was a program for addicts who violated narcotic laws, mainly heroine. I directed one of those communities of 5o men for 6 years, 1971-1977 . The gov ended that program so I left for another job. So even though I was there, this presentation was missed. I may have been away that or on vacation. As I said, I then met Paul who was taking meditation workshop in NY.RD sent people into prisons to train inmates in yoga. We did this till I left because the Nara program was stopped in about 1975-6.
DanbUry prison at that time housed. 3 general types of inmates. white color crimes and mofia related, war resisters like the Berrigan bros, and drug addicts. I worked in the therapeutic community for addicts. Great experience.
I’m totally on board with you about this man, Ram Dass. I have 61 years now and had heard but only recently “discovered” him these past 2 months! What a waste of years since just hearing. of him. This is a daily occurrence to finally endulge in his talks and teachings. I hope to learn and “hear” more. Any tips and/or pointers is greatly appreciated.
It would be interesting to hear how this talk affected these innmates. Intriguing listening to this knowing this audience is incarcerated., its a juxtaposition.
@@PerfectPetProductions nah that's a false equivalency. if reincarnation is true, it isn't dependent on a 16 type model. there are plenty of psychological studies you can see the criticisms of that model, and how most psychologists have moved to the big 5. it has it's advantages for sure, but it's not a religion that we should follow blindly.
@@PerfectPetProductions ram das apparently met a guru who somehow knew he was thinking of his mother. he leaves it unexplained. perhaps his memory was foggy when recapping the story or used to creative licensing.
people keep talking about the population of the Danbury prison but they've got it all wrong - the main type of inmate they sent there was God in drag, god in drag, and god in drag
This lectures is similar to other lectures, it’s also somewhat at the beginning of be here no, the blue square book. But like the Grateful Dead or Marc rebillet, he can read the crowd and be a lot more fluid and direct through his specific art. It’s the same story but the people here clearly push the way he explains the story. The Q&A was epic and shows this quality even further, the Q&A following the poetic epic of Ram Das birth gave the questions there juice.
I find these stories about his guru to be unbelievable but that’s just me. I’d love to see a comparable guru doing such things on RUclips if anyone knows of any ?
💙🙏💙This talk end so abruptly - I was in shock … what else did he have to say about human to human love (the love of a woman ….. etc) what else was there he might have said …💙🙏💙 I appreciate all the words here .. 💙🙏💙 the abrupt ending was a sadness 4 me💙🙏💙
@Maija_Liepa Check out “Sacred in The Everyday” 1:06:30 roughly he starts to talk about this. I suggest listening to the whole talk, it is a great ram dass talk :)
@@toxicspoder 🌻 thank you - just saw your message 11-10-22……🌻thank you🌻just listened to “Ram Das talk with Antoinette Lilly, Architects for the New Age” it’s just been posted…. 🌻Ram Das shares his experience of being with the dolphins 🌻
He switched up his story about the biscuits. One time telling it, he says people were watching him if he'd eat the biscuits or not. I wonder why he changed the story.
@@conrad406 so the guru knowing the unknowable and taking all the lsd was just pure fabrication? how could the guru know he thought of his mother. does he cover it elsewhere? kind of miraculous but completely glossed over.
Only by Direct Experience do WE=mc2 live life 😂 to the fullest, then 💎 ascension is possible. The illusion of watching is not enough to achieve lift off 🚀to🌌 the next plane. Our🕊️intentions make the journey👣!
It's a drag being in the space of comprehending what he is saying, but recognizing I'm a spiritual / experiential desert without any conscious perception or momentary insight-blips... No sense of having worked through anything and now contracting and dissolving - still tied to the space-time dock with a silken thread
Freedom, in a sense is being the knower. The knower doesn’t know through human sense, it just knows. The knower is what eventually falls back into it all when the physical body dies. When the physical body dies and the knower becomes all that is, that is freedom. Freedom for us, is to be as close to ego-less as possible. Our ego’s trap us. The ego, in one way, can be seen as the barrier to freedom
so he met a guru who knew things no one could possible know, including how he thought of his mother etc. this is glossed over and not explained again. kind of makes you sceptical. albeit im only 55 minutes in.
...and you've never had a spiritual experience either... "Those who don't know, don't know. Those who know, enjoy" One day you may too, have an experience; mine was while in a Forrest, the curtain pulled aside just a little and I got to see that which I cannot describe. There is no doubt in my mind we live in a cosmos populated by entities on different levels and until you break the shackles by which your consciousness has been boud by society and rigid belief systems you will never allow yourself to experience it or see them.
@@dijonmaize so it is said. perhaps the programming we go through is permanent as a child, i have the most open mind when it comes to spirtuality, i see no reason to believe in pixies, or define god, or attach him to any religion, but i know there is much we dont understand. and choosing love seems to be the right thing every time.
I worked at that prison during this time, but didn’t,t know anything re RD. Sometime later an inmate told me about a guy who wanted to teach us yoga. We became friend and he introduced me to RD. Since then, I’ve been a devotee, listening to all his tapes, reading his books, going to conferences and having 3 Skype sessions with him. He’s been a blessing in my life, now, being 88.
Pppp
Lucky duck! I would have loved to have met such an amazing man.
What an awesome story, thanks for sharing.
Wow ! What a cool story !
That is so cool. I met Ram Dass in Hawaii in 2012-13 approx can’t remember exact date. I’ve been a devotee to Maharaj-Ji ever since. Love is a powerful force
I did 6 months in prison, 3 of those in solitary (outside US) for possession of plant medicine. On the outside people thought it must have been due to "bad" karma.... little do they know that my time in that cell was a gift. I learned that I'm free no matter where my body, and that I was more free then, inside that small cell, than I was before I went in. Ironically I was sentenced to rehab. It wasn't an easy process at times, but I definitely laughed a LOT at the irony, which I ultimately felt was a message / conversation from creator saying "so you think you're quite happy with your identity as form? let me give you this opportunity, and see what you make of it". Thank you for the teachings.
Can you go into detail how you managed to spend those 3 months in solitary without going insane? I once spent 10 days on a silent meditation retreat and was very happy when it was over... can't imagine what 3 months would be like.
Amazing 😮❤
This saintly man brought me back from the brink of insanity. I had a pretty bad freakout on LSD. I felt so alone and unable to relate it to anybody at all that was in my life. I just thought I went crazy, but then I heard this guy talking about all these things and more besides.
It really helped me.
same boat, here’s to the journey ❤️
Lots to let go of, don't forget to breathe :)
I took too much LSD when I turned 18 and I had a bad trip. RD has changed my life forever ❤️🪽 and help me to understand it all
High Brother! Great ambassador for eastern mysticism and consciousness expanding psychedelics. If there were more like him in the world it would be a happier and safer place. Fly on high brothers and sisters! 🙏🏽
We at the channel feel that! Thank you!
This knowledge is absolutely priceless. Ram Dass, Terrance McKenna, and Alan Watts have helped me understand and get the most out of my experiences, and the truth about life and death.
great teachers imo
Please share your experiences
You know the truth already.
Same
Unfortunately Terrence Mc Kenna died without any real spiritual Transformation as tripping in & out does NOT accomplish THAT...
Ram Dass was smart enough to not get stuck but moved on to the REAL Quest after he had exhausted ALL LSD could ever do...
So surely & fortunately Ram Dass & even Alan Watts are NOT stuck in the same box of druged Ego with Mc Kenna...
Please don't confuse drug addiction with genuine spiritual Transformation...
That would be a really tragic & very costly mistake caused by the ignorance of human Ego....
😘🙏
"That person is a stimulus that is awakening you to the place where you are love." Made my night. Thank you so much!
Have listened to many of these, this one is particularly good. Found Seth books at 24 and knew Immediately i found truth, now at 65, ive never changed that understanding. Same exact teaching. ALL is choosen by the self, no mistakes ever. "Death is completely safe" lol, love that quote. I always feel good listening to these.
I’m 29 and discovered these teachings in the last year or so. Absolutely changed my perspective on life.
Namasté. I've missed you since you passed even though I didn't meet you in person. I appreciate you letting me stay at your house in Maui with you while I visited my ex girlfriend. You're a really nice person. Watching these videos of you' makes me feel so alive. I've missed you since your passing even though we didn't meet this lifetime and I don't know why but you're still a legend Ram Dass, ram ram.
Even though I haven’t met him, it feels like my soul is very familiar with him.
I love this. Ram Das is so busy being alive ever since he died. He always comes with me to my AA meetings 💜
wait, im confused, he let you stay at his house while he wasn't there and yall never met?
@@billytheblockomus haha same. Ram dass humor
I hear his voice. I know I'm home.
We’ll said 🙏
Exactly. My grounding agent
You Are home ♥️
So grateful to those who share these gems and that technology allowed these teachings to be preserved 🙏❤️🙏❤️
Truth
Raw and pure honesty. I love Ram Das.
This is hands down one of the best talks abt seeking the truth ! Thank you for sharing . Namaste to Baba !
Ever since I read “Be Here Now” back in the 70’s, once you’re awake, it’s hard to go back to sleep. All the mushroom, LSD and mescaline trips made so much more sense through his teachings and were fun instead and being serious. What a long strange trip it’s been.
I attended all the lectures in Berkeley given by a certain Richard Alpert before he became known as Ram Das.
What year was that?
And how were they all!? 😍
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THANK YOU.
Thank you for this. Much love and blessings to you all
Ah such a beautiful being and beautiful honest giving up power for truth. 😍😍 Strengthens our faith in truth.
Baba Dass. I love you.❤
Love you Ram Dass...
RD mentions very briefly the word NARA. This was a program for addicts who violated narcotic laws, mainly heroine. I directed one of those communities of 5o men for 6 years, 1971-1977 . The gov ended that program so I left for another job. So even though I was there, this presentation was missed. I may have been away that or on vacation. As I said, I then met Paul who was taking meditation workshop in NY.RD sent people into prisons to train inmates in yoga. We did this till I left because the Nara program was stopped in about 1975-6.
Pls look up Kripa, Sacred Community Project. The caregivers of RD are continuing the work in prison system.
I love this lecture. So good. Thank you 🙏 ☮️❤️
It was all by his grace 🙌🏻 I love you and feel you Baba ❤️
Pranam Baba Ji Jay SiyaRam Ji ❤️🙏🙂😊🏵️🌼🏵️🌼
DanbUry prison at that time housed. 3 general types of inmates. white color crimes and mofia related, war resisters like the Berrigan bros, and drug addicts. I worked in the therapeutic community for addicts. Great experience.
Masterpiece
The only thing that can die is the thought of who you think you are
I’m totally on board with you about this man, Ram Dass. I have 61 years now and had heard but only recently “discovered” him these past 2 months! What a waste of years since just hearing. of him. This is a daily occurrence to finally endulge in his talks and teachings. I hope to learn and “hear” more. Any tips and/or pointers is greatly appreciated.
Same at 59.
As they say, when the student is ready to receive, the master appears...nothing has been wasted😊
Same here I'm going to start by reading his book
Keep enjoying the moment buddy. Say to yourself I am aware a few times per day too. Its a good one for noticing more than you would otherwise
🙏💗 Ram Ram 💗🙏 Jai Sanatana 🔱🌍🌈
Ram Dass. Here Now❤
Thanks for the upload!
What a trip ❤
I enjoyed this. Thank you for posting ❤
I love you Ram Dass..... I Love you Maharaji... RAM RAM
Ram ram 🌹🙏🌹🌹🙏🙏
excellent talk thank you x
Reminds me of the Hollywood film, Lucy. She disappeared, literally, into all one.
thank you for uploading this
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Yum yum yum yum 🥰🙏
ll miss you always. love from ayyer fly 🙏🏻🙌
Brilliant!
😊mind opening
Ram is so beautiful 😊
most grateful i found this dood ❤
Thanks!
Imagine no thought, no self, no ego, no memory. You can't.
Yes. So don’t imagine
@@lukekiefer5964 You can imagine when you're still alive. After that all bets are off.
you are forcing the thought to the limitations of language and westernized thought.
The singularity experience is the doorway to its opposite
Being in Bellevue Hospital in NYC ECT is a step down from a lobotomy
It would be interesting to hear how this talk affected these innmates. Intriguing listening to this knowing this audience is incarcerated., its a juxtaposition.
There are 16 personality types in the myers briggs model. Maybe we live 16 human lives trying each type?
Love you Ram Das. God bless you all.
it's just a model. Terence said DMT blows the idea of archetypes out of the water and i think he's right.
@Atoosa a model that's based on reality and works. If reincarnation is real then what I'm saying is probably true.
@@PerfectPetProductions nah that's a false equivalency. if reincarnation is true, it isn't dependent on a 16 type model. there are plenty of psychological studies you can see the criticisms of that model, and how most psychologists have moved to the big 5. it has it's advantages for sure, but it's not a religion that we should follow blindly.
@Atoosa I follow no-one, only God. The big 5 model is useful, but is more judgemental in its application, which is a negative imo.
@@PerfectPetProductions ram das apparently met a guru who somehow knew he was thinking of his mother. he leaves it unexplained. perhaps his memory was foggy when recapping the story or used to creative licensing.
people keep talking about the population of the Danbury prison but they've got it all wrong - the main type of inmate they sent there was God in drag, god in drag, and god in drag
❤
This lectures is similar to other lectures, it’s also somewhat at the beginning of be here no, the blue square book.
But like the Grateful Dead or Marc rebillet, he can read the crowd and be a lot more fluid and direct through his specific art. It’s the same story but the people here clearly push the way he explains the story.
The Q&A was epic and shows this quality even further, the Q&A following the poetic epic of Ram Das birth gave the questions there juice.
I find these stories about his guru to be unbelievable but that’s just me. I’d love to see a comparable guru doing such things on RUclips if anyone knows of any ?
💓💗
Teotlnanacatl (I think that’s the spelling) is the Nahuatl word for psilocybe Mexicana, a relatively potent little dude
I have landed 😢very heavy jet plane circumstances critical....maday maday,.I'm going down need my Daddy I 😢 need ram das
💙🙏💙This talk end so abruptly - I was in shock … what else did he have to say about human to human love (the love of a woman ….. etc) what else was there he might have said …💙🙏💙 I appreciate all the words here .. 💙🙏💙 the abrupt ending was a sadness 4 me💙🙏💙
You have the answers within you ❤
@Maija_Liepa Check out “Sacred in The Everyday” 1:06:30 roughly he starts to talk about this. I suggest listening to the whole talk, it is a great ram dass talk :)
@@toxicspoder 🌻 thank you - just saw your message 11-10-22……🌻thank you🌻just listened to “Ram Das talk with Antoinette Lilly, Architects for the New Age” it’s just been posted…. 🌻Ram Das shares his experience of being with the dolphins 🌻
He switched up his story about the biscuits. One time telling it, he says people were watching him if he'd eat the biscuits or not. I wonder why he changed the story.
@@conrad406he’s such a wonderful story teller
@@conrad406 so the guru knowing the unknowable and taking all the lsd was just pure fabrication? how could the guru know he thought of his mother. does he cover it elsewhere? kind of miraculous but completely glossed over.
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Does anyone know who the prisoners were? And if any are still alive today ?
Don’t know if any of the inmates who I worked with or went to this RD session are alive. Even tho I went to several of their weddings.
@@georgesteinfeld3971 would be great to chat with someone who went to a lecture of RD
“Working at” is light years from existing in.
What kind of instrument is that playing at the beginning?
It sounds like a handpan drum to me
Only by Direct Experience do WE=mc2 live life 😂 to the fullest, then 💎 ascension is possible. The illusion of watching is not enough to achieve lift off 🚀to🌌 the next plane. Our🕊️intentions make the journey👣!
It's a drag being in the space of comprehending what he is saying, but recognizing I'm a spiritual / experiential desert without any conscious perception or momentary insight-blips...
No sense of having worked through anything and now contracting and dissolving - still tied to the space-time dock with a silken thread
Ram Dass covered our asses four sure 😂
Does freedom survive the death of the knower ? Does it matter ?
Freedom, in a sense is being the knower. The knower doesn’t know through human sense, it just knows. The knower is what eventually falls back into it all when the physical body dies. When the physical body dies and the knower becomes all that is, that is freedom. Freedom for us, is to be as close to ego-less as possible. Our ego’s trap us. The ego, in one way, can be seen as the barrier to freedom
@@lukekiefer5964 Thank you for wise answer
What about 11
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1:28:37 did he forget he's speaking at a prison 🤣.
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LSD should be legal
We at the channel fully agree!
@@BabaRamDassChannel i can buy for you in the deep web If you can't buy it now
The Danbury Federal Correctional Institute is a resort prison for wealthy white collar criminals.
It is a prison in name alone.
For context.
Looks like a prison in Connecticut to me?
Thank you for the context. Makes more sense. And not :)
Wondering who was in there at the time. Sixties political prisoners and white collar crime types.
Your in a prison in your own mind
@@joker-mo8cb *you're (the first one).
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so he met a guru who knew things no one could possible know, including how he thought of his mother etc. this is glossed over and not explained again. kind of makes you sceptical. albeit im only 55 minutes in.
...and you've never had a spiritual experience either...
"Those who don't know, don't know. Those who know, enjoy"
One day you may too, have an experience; mine was while in a Forrest, the curtain pulled aside just a little and I got to see that which I cannot describe. There is no doubt in my mind we live in a cosmos populated by entities on different levels and until you break the shackles by which your consciousness has been boud by society and rigid belief systems you will never allow yourself to experience it or see them.
@@dijonmaize so it is said. perhaps the programming we go through is permanent as a child, i have the most open mind when it comes to spirtuality, i see no reason to believe in pixies, or define god, or attach him to any religion, but i know there is much we dont understand. and choosing love seems to be the right thing every time.
Overdose
Ram dass was gay
bisexual*
The translation of this comment is interesting 😂
Not sure why you feel the need to point that out here
I'm buy sexual, if I can't get it for free I'll buy it.
he was love ❤️
🍄👍 rip Sir. Cu on the other side tomorrow. We meet at the crossroads tomorrow. St Michael.
Thanks!
Thanks!