BABA RAM DASS LP 1969 Elektra Promo Only 200 Copies Timothy Leary Beatles
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Elektra BRD 1 (Stereo)
- Rhagapati Raghava
- Jai Guru Dev, Om Nama Siva
- Isn't it you?
- Rama Rama
- I am the great Sun
- Divine Mother
- Mantra introduction
- Aditaya Hirdam Puyam
- Mantra introduction 2
- Om Mane Padme Hum
- Om Sami Ram
- Prise God
- Hare Hare
Confusingly, this disc has the same 'number' as the Bread sampler but this was not an official release. About 200 copies were pressed up by Elektra, free of charge, for the followers of a guru named Baba Ram Dass, whom Jac Holzman admired. I have seen it described as a 'bonus disc' for a boxed set of seven LPs called 'Love Serve Remember' published by ZBS Foundation. The disc does not have a proper sleeve (AFAIK) but was produced in a cardboard casing with a hole to show the label.
Baba Ram Dass began his life as Richard Alpert, the son of a lawyer/railroad president/university founder. As you find out about his life you discover that he was basically the '5th Beatle' of the psychedelic movement in the 1960s. He was trained as a psychologist and taught at Harvard. It was at Harvard, in company with Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and others, he tried LSD as a way to study human consciousness - it cost both him and Leary their jobs - and began to explore the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Alpert went to India in 1967 to return as Ram Dass after meeting his guru Neem Karoli Baba. Official site at www.ramdasstapes.org for more information.
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