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Be Here Now: The Great Unmaking of Richard Alpert

Be Here Now: The Great Unmaking of Richard Alpert

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Human beings are often drawn to transformation because we aren't entirely comfortable being ourselves. We imagine that if we can just find the right door, we can shed our old personality like a heavy coat and step into a hidden room behind ordinary consciousness.

This week, we explore the life of Richard Alpert, the man who became Ram Dass. His story is a map of the return journey from the head to the heart. From the rigid prestige of Harvard to the "fierce grace" of his final years, Alpert’s journey was not one of acquisition, but of a slow and often painful unravelling.

We examine the "problem of coming down" from psychedelic experiences, the moment the intellectual "expert" was finally silenced in India, and the realization that the spiritual path does not lead away from our humanity, but directly back into the center of it. It is a reflection on what happens when we stop trying to be "somebody" and finally learn how to be here now.

Remember, we are all just walking each other home.

Much love, David x

Episode 147 of The Observing I is out now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you listen. But it’s ad-free, always, at theobservingi.com.

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