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Spiritual teacher and author
United States · 1931–2019
American teacher and writer, born Richard Alpert, who was dismissed from Harvard's psychology faculty in 1963 over the psilocybin research he ran with Timothy Leary, travelled to India, and returned as the author of Be Here Now. He spent decades sitting with the dying and helped found the Living Dying Project. In February 1997 a cerebral haemorrhage left him partly paralysed and aphasic; he lived and taught from a wheelchair for twenty-two more years, and died in Maui in December 2019.
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This is why I could speak the way I did yesterday. In California, the stroke is incredible grace because it gives me a prescription to buy pot. ... Pot takes away the pain and frees me from spasticity. ... The marijuana gives me soul perspective. It makes the stroke livable.
Recorded Sara Davidson, The New York Times Magazine, at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, 21 May 2000 source ↗
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