Ram Dass anecdote about psychedelic trips and vague metaphysical musings

In India, he gave his guru three tablets, and apparently nothing happened. Alpert's postcard to me beckoned, “Come fuck the universe with me.” Instead, | stayed tripping in America, where | kept my entire stash of acid in a bank vault deposit box. Richard Alpert returned as Baba Ram Dass. Eventually, he dropped the Baba. He was now just plain Ram Dass. His father called him Rum Dum. His brother called him Rammed Ass. One afternoon he was visiting me, and | taped our conversation. “In 1963," | said, “I predicted as a joke that Tiny Tim would get married on the Johnny Carson show, and in 1969 it happened. You and | talked about that, and you called it ‘astral humor,’ but | never knew exactly what you meant by that phrase.” “Well, it's like each plane of reality is in a sense a manifestation of a plane prior to it, and you can almost see it like layers, although to think of it in space is a fallacy because it's all the same space, but you could think of it that way. And so there are beings on upper planes who are instruments of the law. | talk about miracles a lot, but | don't live in the world of miracles, because they're not miracles to me. I'm just dealing with the humor of the miracle concept from within the plane where it seems HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015308