Sun, Dec 08
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Gay Dillingham, Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary
"Dying to Know" is an intimate portrait of two complex controversial characters, Ram Dass and Timothy Leary, in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. Gay Dillingham will be in conversation with filmmaker Scott Garen.
Date, Time & Location
Dec 08, 2024, 4:30 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live-streamed to Zoom, register here for Zoom.
You can pre-purchase Dying to Know ($24.99, hardcover) from CW online here or by calling the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
Dying to Know delves in the remarkable friendship between Timothy Leary and Ram Dass, offering an intimate look at their journey from Harvard professors to countercultural icons. In the 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became an LSD guru, igniting a global counterculture movement and landing in prison after Nixon called him “the most dangerous man in America.” Alpert journeyed to the East and became Ram Dass, a spiritual teacher for an entire generation and the author of Be Here Now.
Spanning five decades and featuring exclusive interviews, this book celebrates their enduring…