Terence McKenna - "My colleague Richard Alpert, who later became the famous holy man Baba Ram Dass, was hipper. He discovered that if the set and expectation were erotic and the setting
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Psychedelic drug pioneer Ram Dass - born Richard Alpert - dies at home aged 88 | The Times of Israel
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