Film
Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary
- Director
- Gay Dillingham
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 95 mins
In the early 1960s, Harvard Psychology Professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Dr. Leary became the LSD guru – challenging convention, questioning authority and spawning a global counterculture movement, landing in prison after Nixon called him “the most dangerous man in America.” Dr. Alpert journeyed to India and became Ram Dass, authoring the psychedelic classic Be Here Now.
Drawing pirmarily upon a filmed conversation between the two men that was arranged by director Gay Dillingham after Leary revealed that he was dying of prostate cancer, Dying to Know explores the occasionally fractious relationship between these two ’60s counterculture icons. This screening is presented by the Psychedelic Society
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