Ramdas kadam biography of albert

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By John Roemer. Before transforming himself into the countercultural trailblazer known as Ram Dass, author of the bestselling Be Here Now , Richard Alpert was a psychology grad student exploring achievement anxiety in academia. He was He eventually regained some ability to speak. Alpert turned the inquiry into his doctoral thesis. So did Haber, separately.

He did an awful lot of good in the world. Alpert and Haber applied to the National Science Foundation for a grant to expand their theories through experiments. The proposal was accepted, Sears supervised their research, and their work was published in in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. Alpert was hired to teach at Harvard, where he met Timothy Leary and famously embarked on the psychedelic drug experiments that would lead to their dismissal in Alpert and Leary consulted Aronson on a study of psilocybin aka magic mushrooms and rejected his suggestion for making the study rigorously controlled.

Dass, who described himself as primarily homosexual in a interview with the website Gay Today, reportedly had an affair with a female graduate student at Stanford that resulted in the birth of a son, Peter Reichard, whom Alpert learned about in