im doing this project about dr. richard alpret the guy that gave lsd to the tibetan monks, and it didnt have any effects on them, and i need help any info on this would be helpfull thank you
lol, dr. richard ALPERT. yes, his actual name, though, is Ram Dass (given to him). you definitely can read "the only dance there is" which is based on the talks he gave at the menninger foundation in 1970 and at spring grove hospital in 1972. it talks about LSD and consciousness among other things. but yeah, some people were eating a good 800ug and nothing was happening.... jeeeezz... this is the ebst project ever. have fun. peace.
sounds like a good one, the profound applications of this research are more often then not completely overlooked as clearly shown by the lack of followup experimentation. Think about it this way if they could suppress a LSD trip (roughly the equivalent of being propelled into a schizophrenic state of mind), it leaves one to wonder whether enlightement could be the answer for those who are schizophrenic rather than drugging them up for the rest of their loves, just a thought, plus it's probably rejected by most of eastern religoun for it shows as to the powers of the western religoun of old to ascending one past all external forces.
he does talk about it in the "intro" part in his hippie classic book BE HERE NOW... (& it wasn't "tibetan monks" it was his guru kareem noli baba... 3 tabs of owsley acid, @ 305 ug/tab...) (although a german-born tibetan monk (lama angarika givinda) did taste some of the lsd that dr alpert was carrying with him & said that his trip did indeed give him a glimpse of the "thusness" so often described in buddhist texts...) anyways, i'm sure a googlesearch with the right words entered could give you some relevant quotes & lines to "original source material"... or you could "poke around" sites like www.erowid.org & www.csp.org & prolly glean some useful info as well...
great interview with Ram Dass found on this web site (Great site with a lot of interviews with the greats, garcia, leary, shulgin, ram dass, ginsberg, mckenna) he talks a lot about his guru "He is the most important separate consciousness in my life, even though he died in 1973. He's more real than anybody else I deal with. It's like having an imaginary playmate that is so hip and so wise and so cool and so empty and so doesn't give a fuck and so loving and so compassionate - so any way you can go. It's such fun. He is the closest I've ever come to finding unconditional love. He didn't even want to stay alive. Most people you meet might say, "I'm an unconditional lover," but you go to kill them and they go, "nooo!" (laughter) But it's not him, he's just the form of it. Once, Maharaji was warning this girl off this dubious guy she had met. She said, "he's only my friend" and Maharaji said, "your only friend is God." I really heard that. Your only friend is the reflection of the mystery in each form. And that's what you want to be friends with - not with the story-line."
