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RAM DASS: FIERCE GRACE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Dr. Ralph Metzner, Psychologist] But then at a certain point, then, the police move in, and switch shifts over from health and science over into law enforcement and the judiciary system, which is a whole 'nother system which doesn't really know anything about the science or care less really. What they care about is what's prohibited, and what should be prohibited, and all of that.
[Dr. Larry Brilliant, Co-Founder of the SEVA Foundation] We've lost a lot of very good friends to very bad drugs. And we've seen the exalted spirit that certain psychedelics, under certain conditions, can bring. And it would be disingenuous to deny that, just as it would be disingenuous to deny that religious and mystical experience from fasting, meditating and yoga. For me, it opened up a new world that my very conventional, very middle-class upbringing in Detroit, Michigan wouldn't have opened for me, that my training in medical school would have, if anything, have forbidden me to see. So I'm deeply grateful for those times and those experiments.
[Ram Dass] They really had, this drug research, in their craw.
I was the first professor in this century, that was fired. Yeah.
[Dr. Ralph Metzner, Psychologist] Leary used the analogy, saying I expect a university like Harvard to sponsor research in consciousness-expanding drugs [read "religion expanding drugs"]
would be like expecting the Vatican to sponsor research in aphrodisiacs.
[Timothy Leary] You were on the tenure track. [Ram Dass] I know I was. And you laughed. You laughed. [Timothy Leary] If it weren't for me you would be a ... [Ram Dass] I'd be somebody today. |
