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X-Meditators vs CIA, part 2
Dream Wars
Richard Alpert left Boston as an infamous Harvard Professor in 1967, returned as Ram Dass, and published Be Here Now in 1971.
The first section of the book is a brief version of his life story prior to India. The second section is the most famous and memorable part — a series of metaphysical reflections in words and images
In Dream Worlds, our finger can go right through the same kitchen table that would block it in the Physical World. Different interactions at higher frequencies — Ram Dass used this example when he talked about the astral plane.
Holding on to dreams and bringing them fully back to our normal awake world takes training. Traveling in the Astral Plane while awake, with intent, takes more training, although for some individuals in some circumstances, the ability seems to emerge spontaneously.
The third section of Be Here Now is a spiritual training manual, a cookbook of techniques for transcendence. It is all hard work and not funny or memorable.
Other mental practices emerged in the early 1970s, often in Boston, often providing very basic techniques, sometimes stripped of any kind of religion. Training the Mind became a new way to think about mental health and ‘personal growth’.
