Ep. 295 – Across the Decades: Ram Dass On Expanding the Boundaries of Consciousness
1/12/20261 hr 6 min
Speaking across the decades from the 1960s through the 1990s, Ram Dass shares his thoughts on expanding the boundaries of consciousness through the use of psychedelic chemicals.
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[gentle music] And the predicament is that as you develop a model of who you are and how the universe works, it's extremely hard to get out of that, and it, uh... which is called the ego, really. It's very hard to get out of that, and what the chemical allows you to do is set that aside for a moment and see the