Dying.to.Know.Ram.Dass.and.Timothy.Leary.2014.WEBRip.x264 Subtitles

At 00:00:20,083, Character said: ♪

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At 00:00:25,458, Character said: [Timothy Leary]
It's the taboo.

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At 00:00:27,083, Character said: It's the taboo,
basically, of all time.

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At 00:00:29,291, Character said: - Yeah, of all time.
- Right now,

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At 00:00:30,583, Character said: there are a few more taboos.

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At 00:00:31,750, Character said: We knocked off
the, uh, the taboo

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At 00:00:33,667, Character said: against s***x of all kinds-

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At 00:00:34,750, Character said: -You did personally.

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At 00:00:36,333, Character said: ♪

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At 00:00:39,750, Character said: [Timothy Leary]
Drugs, of course.

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At 00:00:41,250, Character said: Remember how upset
society g***t about drugs?

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At 00:00:43,542, Character said: - It still is. War on Drugs.

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At 00:00:45,417, Character said: We certainly know
about that taboo.

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At 00:00:46,917, Character said: ♪

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At 00:00:48,250, Character said: [Ram Dass]
The next thing was death.

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At 00:00:50,208, Character said: [Timothy Leary]
Everybody has deep thoughts
about death,

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At 00:00:53,500, Character said: the ultimate taboo.

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At 00:00:55,208, Character said: ♪

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At 00:00:56,875, Character said: [Lama Tsultrim Allione]
They blew open this world,

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At 00:00:58,667, Character said: this psychedelic world.

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At 00:01:00,083, Character said: I mean, it ended the 1950s.

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At 00:01:03,125, Character said: It was all up for grabs.

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At 00:01:04,750, Character said: It's hard to describe
what that felt like.

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At 00:01:07,083, Character said: [Andrew Weir]
Leary and Alpert are what will
be remembered as cultural icons

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At 00:01:09,542, Character said: of the '60s, especially,

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At 00:01:10,875, Character said: and very influential people

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At 00:01:12,333, Character said: in not only American culture
but world culture.

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At 00:01:15,417, Character said: [Joan Halifax, Roshi]
You know, they are
iconic figures

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At 00:01:17,166, Character said: who stepped off the map.

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At 00:01:18,500, Character said: They really paid heavily.

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At 00:01:20,709, Character said: [Timothy Leary]
The use of psychedelic drugs

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At 00:01:22,000, Character said: such as marijuana,
mescaline, LSD,

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At 00:01:23,959, Character said: is out of control
in the United States today.

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At 00:01:27,125, Character said: I knew he was an outlaw.

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At 00:01:29,792, Character said: [Zach Leary]
You have to be quite a badass

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At 00:01:32,125, Character said: to get locked up
for your ideas.

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At 00:01:34,166, Character said: [Ram Dass]
We had a deep, deep friendship

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At 00:01:36,875, Character said: but we also had
a deep enmity.

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At 00:01:39,959, Character said: [Timothy Leary]
We're all gonna die.

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At 00:01:41,291, Character said: Why not learn how to do it
with class

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At 00:01:43,125, Character said: and style and friendship

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At 00:01:44,709, Character said: as the climactic expression
of a life?

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At 00:01:47,375, Character said: [Joan Halifax, Roshi]
What Ram Dass did
for our culture

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At 00:01:50,667, Character said: was to open up
a door of spirituality

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At 00:01:55,208, Character said: by having surrendered
so completely to love.

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At 00:02:00,000, Character said: ♪

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At 00:02:16,792, Character said: [Timothy Leary]
When you walked in,

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At 00:02:18,458, Character said: there was a flash
of total joy.

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At 00:02:22,417, Character said: - Yeah, yeah, me too.
- And love.

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At 00:02:24,291, Character said: I don't know what
the words are but, uh--

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At 00:02:25,709, Character said: [Ram Dass]
See, in my mythology now,

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At 00:02:27,917, Character said: I'd say you and I

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At 00:02:29,792, Character said: are connected
at a place

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At 00:02:31,834, Character said: where we've both danced through
this incarnation together.

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At 00:02:36,458, Character said: but that we have
a connection

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At 00:02:38,208, Character said: that is timeless
in another sense of that.

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At 00:02:41,583, Character said: And like we're old beings
that know each other well

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At 00:02:45,000, Character said: through many forms.

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At 00:02:46,542, Character said: ♪

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At 00:02:57,625, Character said: I think one incarnation
is wonderful.

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At 00:03:02,917, Character said: I mean, I started out

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At 00:03:05,750, Character said: a Jewish boy
from Boston.

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At 00:03:08,458, Character said: From psychology
to psychedelics

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At 00:03:11,625, Character said: to...Eastern mysticism.

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At 00:03:15,792, Character said: And then ended up Ram Dass,
uh...

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At 00:03:21,458, Character said: just getting straight
on 'til it was gone.

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At 00:03:25,166, Character said: ♪

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At 00:03:27,125, Character said: [Timothy Leary]
Who are you? Who ** I?

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At 00:03:28,792, Character said: It's a very difficult question.

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At 00:03:31,333, Character said: Throughout my life,
I've always been fascinated

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At 00:03:32,917, Character said: by where the action was.

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At 00:03:35,083, Character said: I'd never want to have power,

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At 00:03:36,250, Character said: but I wanted to, uh--

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At 00:03:38,250, Character said: I ran for governor once
against Ronald Reagan.

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At 00:03:41,750, Character said: Uh, I wanted to experience
the different, uh,

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At 00:03:45,125, Character said: theaters or stages
or viewpoints of life.

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At 00:03:49,000, Character said: I think I've lived one of
the most interesting lives

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At 00:03:50,917, Character said: of anyone in the 20th century.

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At 00:03:52,625, Character said: ♪

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At 00:04:04,333, Character said: [Robert Redford]
In the summer of 1995,

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At 00:04:06,417, Character said: Timothy Leary announced
to the world media

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At 00:04:08,834, Character said: that he had been diagnosed with
inoperable prostate cancer.

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At 00:04:12,625, Character said: He was dying.

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At 00:04:14,041, Character said: [Timothy Leary]
It's shocking

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At 00:04:15,667, Character said: that people are not expected
to talk about their dying

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At 00:04:20,166, Character said: or to plan it.

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At 00:04:21,792, Character said: Certainly the greatest
adventure,

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At 00:04:24,959, Character said: celebration of your life,

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At 00:04:27,166, Character said: should be the process
of moving on.

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At 00:04:29,667, Character said: ♪

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At 00:04:32,792, Character said: [Ram Dass]
He turned it into
a theater piece,

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At 00:04:35,208, Character said: he turned it into a poem,

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At 00:04:36,875, Character said: he turned it into a dance,

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At 00:04:39,667, Character said: which is just what he did
with all the rest of his life.

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At 00:04:42,542, Character said: It was a celebratory moment.

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At 00:04:44,375, Character said: ♪

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At 00:04:47,834, Character said: [Timothy Leary]
The thing's a team sport.

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At 00:04:49,000, Character said: Dying's a team sport.

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At 00:04:50,291, Character said: Be open to new ideas.

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At 00:04:52,750, Character said: Remember when people
used to say

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At 00:04:53,959, Character said: that LSD is an escapist drug?

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At 00:04:56,417, Character said: - Yeah, I just think--
- You know, one thing LSD

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At 00:04:58,208, Character said: is native because
you can't escape--

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At 00:05:00,667, Character said: You g***t a hundred billion
neurons--yeah.

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At 00:05:03,458, Character said: My thing about death
is not escaping it.

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At 00:05:05,583, Character said: I'm running towards Miss Death.

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At 00:05:08,125, Character said: You can't turn this over
to the doctors.

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At 00:05:10,917, Character said: You can't turn it over
to the priests.

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At 00:05:12,959, Character said: You can't turn it over
to the medical profession.

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At 00:05:15,208, Character said: Think for yourselves.

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At 00:05:16,917, Character said: No government agency
or no profession

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At 00:05:18,959, Character said: can solve these
problems for you.

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At 00:05:20,709, Character said: I've g***t to do it
for myself,

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At 00:05:22,250, Character said: you've g***t to do it
for yourself,

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At 00:05:23,917, Character said: and all the viewers have
g***t to do it for themselves.

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At 00:05:26,250, Character said: Take charge of it!

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At 00:05:28,875, Character said: Plan it,
talk to your friends about it.

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At 00:05:31,166, Character said: ♪

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At 00:05:41,291, Character said: [Robert Redford]
Timothy Leary,

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At 00:05:42,500, Character said: born October 22, 1920,

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At 00:05:45,125, Character said: in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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At 00:05:47,375, Character said: An only child.

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At 00:05:49,250, Character said: [Ram Dass]
He took birth into such
an interesting tension

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At 00:05:52,166, Character said: in terms of,
on his mother's side,

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At 00:05:53,750, Character said: very conservative
Irish Catholic,

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At 00:05:56,125, Character said: very tight, held in tight,
very judgmental.

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At 00:05:59,125, Character said: His father was a dentist
but from the Learys

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At 00:06:01,625, Character said: who were kind of a wild,
Irish, drinking, divorcing,

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At 00:06:06,625, Character said: going off and running away
type family.

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At 00:06:09,834, Character said: [Timothy Leary]
I was a heavy reader as a child

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At 00:06:13,000, Character said: and, uh, I spent hours
and hours as a kid

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At 00:06:16,125, Character said: studying the heroic
and the interesting

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At 00:06:18,333, Character said: and the adventures
of people who were thinking.

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At 00:06:21,834, Character said: [Ram Dass]
Timothy had an
extraordinarily complex mind,

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At 00:06:24,834, Character said: subtle mind.

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At 00:06:26,667, Character said: He liked the kind of multilevel
nature of consciousness a lot.

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At 00:06:30,667, Character said: I mean, the fact
that James Joyce

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