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Sample Key Takeaways:

1) In his youth, Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert, embarked on a series of experiments to explore the creative and therapeutic potential of psychedelics. He is one of the people credited with pioneering and popularizing psychedelics in the '60s and '70s.

2) A media hoopla surrounded him and his work. All the attention focused more on its shock value than on the reason for his experiments and advocacy of psychedelics, which was a serious effort to develop conceptual models for consciousness itself.