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Psychedelic Experience Opened Persistent Sense Of Oneness
- Ram Dass says his 1961 psilocybin experience cut through the sense of others as separate and revealed a persistent sense of 'us' moving toward 'one'.
- That experience guided his life and made him continually question identities and separations in daily interactions.
Work On What Brings You Down
- Do the inner work of exploring what brings you down rather than just chasing highs; free means removing what drags awareness into identification.
- Ram Dass shifted from seeking constant highs to investigating attachments like money, power, sex, and death fears.
Falling In Love With People At The Moment Of Dying
- Ram Dass describes spending years with dying people to face the edge of mystery and dissolve defenses that hide truth.
- He calls this practice 'loving people to death' and finds dying moments demand raw honesty and reveal deep openings of consciousness.