Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Icons of '60s counterculture, Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary and Ram Dass became estranged until an illness inspire | dG1fVEZSRHJVelNUYXM

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00:00Turn on, tune in, and drop out.

00:09Now this may sound reckless advice today,

00:11but it's the oldest advice that philosophers and religious leaders have passed on.

00:15Detach, drop out, find what's within.

00:19And I stand by that statement.

00:25I knew he was an outlaw.

00:26I think I've lived one of the most interesting lives of anyone in the 20th century.

00:38Yes, sir, since 1960, I've been the director of a research project at Harvard.

00:43Under my personal supervision, witnessed over 3,000 ingestions of LSD.

00:49Well, can you briefly describe the effect of it?

00:53No, sir.

00:53I just like what this film explores.

00:57It's a love story between two people drawn together for almost spiritual reasons.

01:00They blew up in this psychedelic world.

01:02It ended the 1950s.

01:05Leary and Albert, what we remembered as cultural icons,

01:07very influential people in not only American culture, but world culture.

01:10They are iconic figures who stepped off the map.

01:14It's that evil man, Dr. Timothy Leary.

01:17You have to be quite a badass to get locked up for your ideas.

01:21That's the mythic level that Timothy and I lived at, was we were adventurers.

01:27I've been in 40 jails in four continents.

01:31I haven't even been busted yet.

01:33What Ram Dass did for our culture was to open up a door of spirituality.

01:44When I discovered I was dying, I called Ram Dass because I knew he would understand.

01:49If you have identified with your soul when you're alive, death, it's just another moment.

01:56In the end there is one dance you'll do alone.