…was the best place because that was most influential. Goes to New York and so he came to Harvard, recruited me and Richard Alpert and Ralph Messer and so forth. Now that's a very accurate statement. that actually did come to Cambridge. He was there the…

…fifties kids that grew up with Mouseketeers and they knew about churning on. I mean, with all due respect to Huxley and Professor Richard Alpert, Baba Ram Dass, you know, we were going out saying churn on, tune in, was, uh, uh, with all this, what I…

…experiences when you were in Harvard and you had such different paths back at Harvard? The question is, how come Richard Alpert, Bob Ramdass, and I, who had such similar experiences at Harvard, followed such different paths? Well, remember, we all had…

…And I want to say it wasn't just Timothy Leary. What I remember was a trio of three men. They were Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner. I've been calling them the three who changed the world. There were so many of us who were awakened from…

…all were. Here we were at Harvard University. We had some of the finest people, Aldous Huxley, and Professor Houston Smith, and Richard Alpert, who's now Baba Ram Dass. We had some real heavyweights at Harvard. And we felt we knew a lot about what was…

…all right? Watch that tree, Aldous. There goes Aldous. Here comes Aldous. How about a round of applause for Aldous? Hey. Here comes Richard Alpert. How about that? I saw Richard Alpert came over for a day about a month ago He's doing great I mean he's…

…goes Aldous. Here comes Aldous. How about a round of applause for Aldous? Hey. Here comes Richard Alpert. How about that? I saw Richard Alpert came over for a day about a month ago He's doing great I mean he's he's he's giving up being a holy man…

…that corner too long He's doing wonderful. He's changing and growing and he's out there experimenting and moving around. He asked Richard Alpert, where do you live? And he said, here and now. Had a wonderful evening last night with Allen Ginsberg. I…

…about retaining a certain level of high all the time. I don't see that. as a goal at all. My dear friend and comrade Richard Alpert, Ram Dass, tells a story many times when he went to see his guru. You know, the guru ate all the acid and nothing…

…in full swing, and I had just returned from its first year there, where I was co-director with Tim of the psilocybin project. Richard Alpert, Ram Dass himself, soon to be engaged in a silent inner revolution, took over my part in the work when I left.…

…for fresh minds and ideas. With Leary, it would get more than it bargained for. Teaming up with a colleague, Richard Alpert, Leary won approval for a research project exploring the potential benefits of the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, psilocybin.…

…about. And he sat down. Harvard's controversy over psychedelic drugs now became national news. In the end, Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert, became the first professor to be fired from Harvard in almost a century. for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate.…

…Richard Alpert, became the first professor to be fired from Harvard in almost a century. for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate. When Alpert left, Leary went with him. He liked to claim that he too had been sacked. It added to his radical image. Leary…

…Leary went with him. He liked to claim that he too had been sacked. It added to his radical image. Leary and Alpert looked for the right surroundings in which to continue to spread the word about psychedelic drugs. Their saviour was Leary's close friend,…

…his old Harvard friends began to drift away. Gunther Weil and Peggy Hitchcock were the first to leave, followed by Richard Alpert. Alpert went to India in search of enlightenment and returned as Baba Ram Dass, achieving fame as one of America's…

…was convinced he had found the key to changing human behavior. Leary returned to Harvard with his research colleague, Dr. Richard Alpert. They had the psychoactive agent in the mushrooms called psilocybin synthesized into a small pill. Leary and Alpert's work…

…receiving a warm response. That was Alan Ginsberg again with his final speaker. Final speaker will be Radha Ram Dass, formerly Richard Alpert in his last incarnation. I've been very confused about Tim's behavior. But that isn't bad. In fact, I kind of…

…the public at large at the time. Shortly after Dr. Leary announced that he was in fact in Algiers, Babaram Das, Dr. Richard Alpert, a former associate of Dr. Leary's, was interviewed by editors of the Psychedelic Review, and one of the topics of their…

…brute biological fact. I remember the first time this was brought home to me was the first time we ever gave LSD to Richard Alpert when we were at Harvard. And we went to his apartment, and we were having a fine experience there. And during the…

…and we were having a fine experience there. And during the session, Richard went out to his kitchen. At that time, Richard Alpert had one of those shelved-door refrigerators. He opened the door, and Richard got next to it, and he opened the door…

…have just begun. We haven't even... Stick around. We're just getting our act together. Two quick questions. Do you ever see Richard Alpert anymore? Yes, I see him quite regularly. He's at the present time living near Boston with his father. He's very…

…of far-out, outcast scientists and philosophers there. The reason, you see people like Alice Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Baba Ram Dass, Richard Alpert, Alan Watts. How about Alan Watts? Well, yeah. John Lilly! Yeah, John was there. Oh, he's a, well, he wasn't…

…just hitting some of the clouds for a while. We sent some up for them. We were bringing them down. There comes Richard Alpert. There came Alan Watts. There comes... Oh, boy, it was an incredible, incredible experience. We were kind of dumb, though. We…

…weeks ago at midnight, my wife Barbara and I were In bed, the telephone rang and this voice, mellow voice said, this is Richard Alpert. I'm in town and would like to come over. So Richard Alpert came over the following day at noon and he hung around…

…the telephone rang and this voice, mellow voice said, this is Richard Alpert. I'm in town and would like to come over. So Richard Alpert came over the following day at noon and he hung around for about eight hours in our patio. And he's just the…

…chance to spend a day or a week or a month with Baba Ram Dass. He calls himself both Baba Ram Dass and Richard Alpert. The wonderful thing about Richard Dass or Baba Alpert is he's changing. I said John Lilly's one of the most courageous scientists of…

…with Baba Ram Dass. He calls himself both Baba Ram Dass and Richard Alpert. The wonderful thing about Richard Dass or Baba Alpert is he's changing. I said John Lilly's one of the most courageous scientists of all time. Richard's not basically a scientist.…

…listed all these historic people like Nietzsche and Plato, but listen, in our lifetime, we've seen some incredible people come through. Richard Alpert, Baba Ram Dass. How about a round of applause for him? And Ken Kesey. And Allen Ginsberg. One of the…