Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

Summary Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became the LSD guru, asking us to think for ourselves, igniting a global counter-cultural movement and landing in prison after Nixon called him 'the most dangerous man in America'. Alpert journeyed to the East becoming Ram Dass, a spiritual teacher for an entire generation who continues in his 80s teaching service through compassion. With interviews spanning 50 years the film invites us into the future encouraging us to ponder questions about life, drugs & the biggest mystery of all: death. View more details

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

Directed : Gay Dillingham

Written : David Leach

Stars : Ram Dass John Perry Barlow Dean Chamberlain Peggy Mellon Hitchcock

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Genres : History Biography Documentary News

Release date : Aug 25, 2016

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : CNS Communications

Summary Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became the LSD guru, asking us to think for ourselves, igniting a global counter-cultural movement and landing in prison after Nixon called him 'the most dangerous man in America'. Alpert journeyed to the East becoming Ram Dass, a spiritual teacher for an entire generation who continues in his 80s teaching service through compassion. With interviews spanning 50 years the film invites us into the future encouraging us to ponder questions about life, drugs & the biggest mystery of all: death. View more details

Details

Genres : History Biography Documentary News

Release date : Aug 25, 2016

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : CNS Communications

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