Dying to Know
Ram Dass & Timothy Leary: The Epic Friendship that Shaped Generations
Mandala Publishing
2024 | ISBN: 979-8-887620909 | 216 pp
About
Dying to Know is an intimate portrait of two complex controversial characters, Ram Dass and Timothy Leary, in an epic friendship that shaped a generation.
In the 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became an LSD guru, igniting a global counterculture movement and landing in prison after Nixon called him “the most dangerous man in America.” Alpert journeyed to the East and became Ram Dass, a spiritual teacher for an entire generation and the author of Be Here Now. Including interviews spanning 50 years, Dying to Know celebrates the lasting legacy of Leary and Alpert and encourages critical thinking about life, drugs, and the biggest mystery of all: death.
Reviews
"An extraordinary story well told."
— STING
"A historical document chronicling two majestic lives."
— JEFF BRIDGES
"An important slice of countercultural history. Peppered with poignant wit, inspiring boomers and millennials alike."
— PAUL KRASSNER
"Nothing tops the discussions of mortality between Leary and Ram Dass, during which both of these battered but unbowed explorers of reality come off as nothing less than enlightened."
— MARC MOHAN, THE OREGONIAN
“Powerful . . . Dying to Know chronicles the long and heartfelt friendship between these two revolutionary thinkers that helped shape a generation.”
— NORTH BAY BOHEMIAN