The 'magic cactus' flower: sacred peyote

(Forgotten Crops) Why does this entheogenic cactus cause magical "hallucinations"?

Higher levels of consciousness

Ancient Egyptians took psychedelic blue lily

• Peyote
• Blue water lily/lotus (Nymphaea nouchali)
• Entheogen
• Carlos Castaneda
• Psychoactive drug
• Psychedelic experience
• Shamanic "sacrament"
• Banned by Spanish Empire
• Altered state of consciousness

Hollywood's 'Antichrist' Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken "More Cowbell! (Saturday Night Live)

(Ming) No wonder Christopher Walken terrifies everyone

• Annie Hall: Woody Allen meets Christopher Walken's Dwayne, Annie's strange brother, who has something to confess

You want more cowbell? - The Devil's bargain:

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Charismatic Christopher Walken, 2008

Mr. Christopher Walken was born little Ronnie Walken (March 31, 1943) and became a very famous American actor. His work on stage and screen has earned him accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Actor Award, as well as nominations for two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe. His films have grossed more than $1.6 billion in the United States... More

• Natalie Wood (The Murder of Nat Wood)

Ten drugs the ancients were addicted to

(Health with Henry) Ten ancient drug [addiction] epidemics that erased entire civilizations

How monks defeated CIA's mind control

(Asangoham) How monks defeated the dark science of CIA mind control (MK-Ultra)

• Cathy O'Brien exposes CIA's "Project Monarch"
• Mind control is "brainwashing"
• Mind control in popular culture

Dalai Lama meets with former CIA Director and then current U.S. President G. H. Bush

Pres. George W: Hey, Dolly, my Dad has a lot good things to say about you. Yer in the loop!

The CIA's Project Monarch trained female honey pot assassins with mind control. (Erika Kirk)

Ram Dass: We live in the world we choose

Ram Dass: We live in the world we choose | 1980s | [full lecture | restored archive]

Nothing new by nobody special

Seva Foundation (seva.org)

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(Baba Ram Dass) June 8, 2026: Ram Dass' full lecture interview from "The Congress of Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose" in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1983.

• Who is "God," Ram Dass? The Monad (Gnosticism), Brahman (Vedas), Maha Brahma (Buddhism), Brahma (Hinduism)? We need to make a distinction between the lesser personality many call "God" (the Demiurge or "Fabricator") and that all-encompassing reality behind the illusion (Brahman), which in the West may be called the Monad (One).

Remember: Be Here Now (Ram Dass)

In this interview, Ram Dass (formerly Harvard's Dr. Richard Alpert) presents his viewpoints regarding the state of the world and what we can do. He skillfully weaves his way through his perspectives on personal responsibility, American media, and spiritual practice.

• 0:00 Welcome Every1
• 0:11 What is "initiative"? Initiation?
• 2:22 Form and Formless paradox
• 5:55 Special vs. Unique
• 7:20 Intellect and Intuition
• 12:00 "I crochet" story [method]
• 15:25 We are all interconnected
• 18:08 Ram Dass Transmission!
• 21:00 Transmitting being
• 24:04 Ram Dass' TV show idea
• 26:10 Ram Dass and the Banker
• 28:01 The City of the Dead
• 29:50 Peace Family!

The Love Serve Remember Foundation is dedicated to preserving and continuing the teachings of Ram Dass and his love guru, Neem Karoli Baba. Find out more at ramdass.org. Social media: Instagram (babaramdass), Facebook (babaramdass), TikTok (ramdassofficial). Patreon: ramdasspodcast. Support channel in offering more content like this: igfn.us/form/dHI2oA or text YouTube to 91999. This is an all-time favorite Ram Dass piece, so enjoy! SUBSCRIBE to channel for more magic Ram Dass moments.

Ram Dass: How to keep Heart open in Hell

 

Remember: Be Here Now (Ram Dass)

(After Skool) It's all perfect by Ram Dass (formerly Prof. Richard Alpert, Ph.D., Harvard University)

RAM DASS ("God's Servant or Slave") was born Richard Alpert on April 6, 1931 and lived until December 22, 2019) [1]. He became a hippie and is also known as Baba ["Father"] Ram Dass. He was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga [2], academic psychologist, and writer of Be Here Now, his best-selling [3] 1971 book, which has been described by as "seminal" [4, 5, 6].

Ram Dass perfectly describes "ego death"

Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert)

With the help of his scandalous but loving sex guru Neem Karoli Baba, he helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West [7]. He authored or co-authored a dozen more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including Grist for the Mill (1977), How Can I Help? (1985), and Polishing the Mirror (2013).

• Is Ram Dass still here now?  An excerpt from Being Ram Dass (Tricycle)
• The Legacy of Be Here Now (RamDass.org)

Aren't you supposed to be a Jew?

Once when he was teaching with his long hair, beard, and linen garments, someone in the crowd asked him why he dressed like a guru from India when he was really a Jew from the U.S. Without missing a beat, his retort was, "I'm only Jewish on my parents' side." Ha ha ha, exactly!

We are born into a faith, and it's usually rammed down our throats before we have a chance to do anything but swallow. And most of us won't question it. But some of us vomit it up, leave or examine, sometimes even come back to it later.

Harvard professors Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert (cool squares rounding out)

Ram Dass, The Guru who studied LSD and wrote The Hippie Bible

 

However, it seems the job and duty of any human to question it, test it, attempt to validate it, argue against it, learn from it, grow from it, reject it all together, or make peace with it. There's a world of spirituality out there to explore. We usually need a floor, a ground, by which to test things. And almost all major religions have a mystic component or sect. That's a place to start.

Parents, what am I to do but follow my heart?

But question we must, and explore we will, and find? That remains to be seen. We are on a spiritual quest. And maybe the whole rest of the world can't be. But if Americans can't, what the F are you calling yourself an "American" for? Life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness is all you were promised -- and you're not even going to pursue it? Truth means nothing? Just taking sides? Just being controlled by your government, schools, and parents, the "powers that be"? Pathetic. Human up, and get searching.

Hell: all the people Ram Dass hated

(My brother Comes) Love everyone and tell the Truth

Ram Dass' brothers and sisters with Baba

Ram Dass was personally and professionally associated with hippie Dr. Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s. Then known as Richard Alpert, he conducted research with Leary on the therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs.

In addition, Alpert assisted Harvard Divinity School graduate student Walter Pahnke in his 1962 "Good Friday Experiment" with theology students, the first controlled, double-blind study of drugs and the mystical experience [8, 9].

While legal at the time (and not yet criminalized), their research was controversial and led to Dr. Leary's and Dr. Alpert's firing from Harvard in 1963.

In 1967, Alpert traveled to India and became "Ram Dass," a disciple of Hindu Guru Neem Karoli Baba, who gave him the name Ram Dass, meaning "Servant of Ram," but usually rendered simply as "Servant of God" for Western audiences.

Hi, I'm Neem Karoli Baba (Sculpture in Ram Dass Library) sculpted to look like sweet Budai

 

In the following years, he co-founded the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation. From the 1970s to the 1990s, he traveled extensively, giving talks and retreats and holding fundraisers for charitable causes.

Remember: Be Here Now (Ram Dass)

In 1997, he had a stroke, which left him with paralysis and expressive aphasia which would be better characterized as "fluent, anomic-like with hesitations and word finding difficulties at the conversational level with grossly intact auditory comprehension for high level, low-context information" [10, 11].

He eventually grew to interpret this event as an act of grace, learning to speak again and continuing to teach and write books. After becoming seriously ill during a trip to India in 2004, he gave up traveling and moved to Maui, Hawaii, where he hosted annual retreats with other spiritual teachers until his death in 2019. More

Woodstock, no, 'Woodstock 1999' (film)

(LukeTheDuke) Woodstock 99: Three Days that Ended a 30-Year Legacy: Rage against the...

Doing LSD with pornstar Riley Reid

(Animated) Riley Reid's trip on three double tabs* (150 mcg) of acid got her stuck in a time glitch (loop) ~ Tales From the Trip.

Ram Dass' guru Neem Karoli Baba took LSD

The nature of the ego | Terence McKenna

• Entheogens
• LSD is a magic mushroom substance synthesized from Ergot
• What is "acid"? (drugfree.org)
• Psychedelics
  
• Hallucinogens
• Counterculture
• Mind or soul- manifesting
• DMT: dimethyltryptamine
• 5-MeO-DMT (Bufo, toad venom)

LA's Santa Monica, by Venice, is home of MS' Linkin Park (this park)

• *Acid was called "LSD-25," referring to a standard dosage of 25 micrograms (mcg, μg) because it is very potent per tab or tablet (blot, dot, drop, etc.). This would make three double tabs about 150 mcg. But ask Riley or see Sidney Cohen (1959), "The therapeutic potential of LSD-25," A Pharmacologic Approach to the Study of the Mind, p. 251–258.
• VIDEO: Lost Cannabis of the Silk Road: The Stans
• What's an "Entheogen"? Cannabis? (archaeological record)

Buddhism and entheogenic psychedelics?

Dalai Lama on using psychedelics

WATCH: (dalailamawisdom) Dalai Lama Q&A on using psychedelics

• Riley Reid (Animated); Mike Shinoda; DalaiLamaWisdom; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

What psychedelic did ancient Greeks use?

(StoneAgeMan) This fungi (ergot) was kept secret for 2,000 years: Here's what we know now

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  Psychedelic ancient Greece (freepik.com)

  The surprising link between LSD and Greek mythology | Psychedelics Integration
• Ergot, a fungus that grows on grain, yields LSD
• Eleusinian Mysteries (ancient drug use)
• Bad (synthetic) drugs vs. good entheogens
• Dr. Gabor Mate distinguishes "drugs" that obtund (like alcohol) and substances that elevate consciousness; yet, we call both of these opposite experiences getting "high"
• Cult drug use: Greco-Roman mysteries

Of course the ancients used drugs

The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization by Dr. D. C. Ammon Hillman has 4.6 out of 5 stars (with 146 ratings).

"The last wild frontier of classical studies" (The Times UK).

The Chemical Muse uncovers decades of misdirection and a coverup to reveal the history of widespread drug use in ancient Rome and Greece.

(Tommy's PodCast) Chemical Muse | Dr. Ammon Hillman (TPC #1,513)

In the city-states that gave birth to Western civilization, drugs were an everyday element of a free society.

Often, they were not just available but vitally necessary for use in medicine, spiritual-religious ceremonies, and war campaigns.

Their proponents and users existed in all classes, from common soldiers to emperors. Citing examples in myths, medicine, and literature, Dr. Hillman, Ph.D., shows how drugs have influenced and inspired the artists, philosophers, and even politicians whose ideas have formed the basis for civilization as we know it.

What is "consciousness"?

(Weekend University) Effects of psychedelics on conscious level | Prof. Seth

Many of these ancient texts may seem well-known, but Dr. Hillman shows how timid, prudish translations have left scholars and readers in the dark about the reality of drug use in the Classical world.

Dr. Hillman's argument is not simply "pro-drug." Instead, he appeals to intellectual honesty to acknowledge the use of drugs in ancient societies despite today's conflicting social mores.

In the modern world, where academia and university life are often politically charged, The Chemical Muse offers a unique and long overdue perspective on the contentious topic of drug use and freedom of thought. More

Awakening (liberating insight) is normal

What if the ego (self, soul) were just to melt and disappear for a moment? Would we let go?

Awakening is totally normal, Dude. Don't go looking for special magic experiences

Wake up, Zen meditators, or it's the paddle!

(The Theory of Samsara) Premiered Nov. 27, 2025: 🧘‍♂️ Why do we all so easily fall into "spiritual delusion"? Why do we chase psychedelic highs, promises of supernatural powers, or “special” experiences instead of understanding the ordinary, unchanging nature of consciousness [and related phenomena] itself?

This video dives more deeply into the mechanics of self-deception on the spiritual path —

• How craving fuels suffering,
• Why Western culture’s addictions make it worse,
• Why meditators so often mistake mental fabrications for awakening.

Let's explore the Buddha’s actual teaching:

• Craving is the root of suffering
• Consciousness is ordinary, not something to be manufactured
• Awakening can’t be given to us by a teacher
• Psychedelic trips are NOT enlightenment
• Pride, jealousy, and other delusions and fabricated identities destroy the Path
• True realization begins with a stable, uncontrived mind.

Notice these? Signs of spiritual awakening — the Buddha warned about

Whether we practice Zen (jhana), Mahamudra ("great seal"), Vipassana (insight meditation), or Dzogchen (choiceless awareness), the message is the same: Stop looking for the extraordinary.

Instead, recognize the nature of mind as it is: SUCHNESS, ordinary mind — nothing to adopt, nothing to abandon.

If we want to avoid spiritual self-sabotage and cultivate a genuine path toward awakening, this is for us. Check out ultimatemeaning.org for more information.

#spiritualdelusion #buddhism #awakening #meditationpractice #dzogchen #mahamudra #ordinarymind #buddhadharma #spirituality #selfdeception #craving #suffering #mindfulness #psychedelics #nondual #zenmeditation #enlightenmentpath

• Anand Universe Official, Is there a God? Nov. 23, 2025; The Theory of Samsara; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly 

MK-Ultra is real: victims are suing

(The Kim Iversen Show)

MK-Ultra LSD doc (wiki)

MK-Ultra [a], which stands for "mind control," was a secret, illegal CIA human experimentation program. It was designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) allegedly to develop procedures and identify hallucinogenic drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture [1].

Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron was just doing his human research (without informed consent), using humans like lab rats in a NAZI detention camp.

The term MKUltra is a CIA cryptonym: "MK" is an arbitrary prefix standing for the Office of Technical Service and "Ultra" is an arbitrary word out of a dictionary used to name this project.

The program has been widely condemned as a violation of individual rights and an example of the CIA's abuse of power, with critics highlighting its disregard for consent and its corrosive impact on democratic principles [2]. More

Are human experimentation activities continuing? Of course they are. Caveat emptor.

Working for CIA: threat to planet

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Ex-CIA agent explains The Company

Burning Man Day 4: Orgy Dome, mud

Art, creativity, and awe - it's all here.

What really happens at Burning Man? Everything's free, life lived by principles, not a music festival but rather a festival of lights and lifestyle, standup comedy, Orgy Dome, acid (LSD) trip, the afterglow, Buddhist insight: "Desire what you don't have a little less, desire more what you do have." Put the phone away. Ride a bike. Stare at the sky and into different dimensions that are just as far away as the doors of the perception. Mario Adrion explains, concluding, "Namaste, b*tches."

24 hours at Burning Man 2025 – Daily Playa Survival Vlog

(Escaping Normal Life) Aug. 28, 2025: In this daily playa survival vlog, I go inside the heart of Black Rock City – where 70,000 people come together in the Nevada desert to create the most unbelievable temporary city on Earth.

🌵✨ Yes, it's muddy and messy, but that doesn’t stop the fun, the phenomenal art, massive sound camps, live music, free spa treatments, caked mud, no showers, and unbelievable energy all around.

Beyond the parties, Burning Man is also a place for self-growth, spirituality, and community – with religious temples, AA meetings, weddings, families, kids, and powerful moments of togetherness that make this city feel like home.

Too often, people focus only on the negatives, but the truth is Burning Man is a functioning city full of creativity, connection, and human spirit. Join me for 24 hours of survival, dust, mud, art, music, and magic at Burning Man 2025! Venmo: venmo.com/u/escaping_normal_life

• Everything you need to know about Burning Man in 20 photos (NSFW) from Esquire Magazine

• Margaret Qualley, "Reality Is Not For Me" t-shirt; Mario Adrion; Double Dusted Podcast, Burning Man Orgy Dome experience, posted March 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Roadtrip: Death Valley to Burning Man

(Wonderhussy) Taking adventure to a new level by visiting the most hedonistic city in Nevada. Yes, wilder than Pahrump, more lit up than Las Vegas, more secretive than Area 51 (Groom Lake), where there's no money -- and none needed because it has evolved into a gifting culture beyond barter to selfless giving of services, experiences, food, drink, and fun! It takes dana (India's ancient practice of cultural spiritual generosity) to a modern place with an enlightened outlook to how life can be.

• [When? Just as soon as the Powers That Be step out of the way and release all of the free energy technology that has been discovered, developed, and attempted to be patented before being disappeared and stored somewhere in the Smithsonian Institution and/or the U.S. Patent Office storage units as it will upset the entire economic model personally grinding us down now as a planet when other planets, even local neighbors have evolved beyond this. Nicola Tesla was downloaded such technology by otherworldly beings interested in helping us with that evolution, but the covert agencies stepped in, weaponized it, and kept it all under wraps. Tesla discovered more and made working models of his visions than we have ever been allowed to yet see. Eventually it will come out.]

Did Woodstock '69 really happen?

These boots were made for walking? Nancy Sinatra is a phony: fake hair, nose, boobs, cheeks...

Summer of Love + Road to Kathmandu (travel)

Road to Kathmandu, 1977 (full version)

(mtdd1948) June 15, 2017: India's famed Taj Mahal is an entirely Islamic architectural masterpiece created by Muslims in a land of rock-cut Buddhist marvels and countless Hindu temples? Let's take an overland "magic bus" trip from stuffy London, England, to wild Kathmandu, Nepal.

1967: The Summer of Love

(Free Documentary - History) April 19, 2024: In 1967 an expressive, colorful musical force painted a backdrop of love, social change, fashion, turmoil, and war.

Son, drop your gun and come back home to us!

The world remembers the "Summer of Love" in 1967 [which we always thought took place in '69] as one of those moments when a unique and creative explosion of rock music and popular culture arrived in the UK and US.

This documentary is driven by the soundtrack of the time, which kept the imperial American troops company as they massacred millions of Buddhists in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, powered the American Anti-War and Civil Rights movements, which opened the hearts and minds of Baby Boomers who had matured into hope-filled teens.

This special celebrates 1967 as a famous year full of music and change.  “Stick a flower in your hair [or a soldier's rifle at Kent State] and remember that you are Us not Them.”

• WATCH: 1968: Year of War, Turmoil & Beyond...

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• mtdd1948, June 15, 2017; Free Documentary History; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

NEW photos of 1960s San Francisco