That place where you go on a drug trip: is it real?

Harvard experiments to find out got Prof. Dr. Richard Alpert kicked out, and Timothy Leary along with him.  He hoped there was a non-chemical way to get there, and stay, and like many other Baby Boomers (including the Beatles) went to India to find out.  The mountain village guru sent him back with a new name—Ram Dass (Servant of God)—and big answers.  He became the best explainer of an Eastern God, in English, during a long and peripatetic career of peace, love, and inclusion.  In 1971 his book Be Here Now was a Best-Seller, second only to bibles and Benjamin Spock.

Dr. John Hancock is a new member of UUCS, a childhood Methodist, and a life-long promoter of comparative religion, servant leadership, and the powers of beauty and imagination.