This Mishlove interview of Ram Dass is my favorite 1 hour interview ever. If I were to be trapped on an island all by myself and could only have one hour of content I think this might be it.
I think this interview alone can save any human. Its like a lifeline for increasing your conscious. The amount of teaching points made is incredible and most of them play parts in all parts of life. This interview helps me feel sane in an insane world.
This from the late 1980s, not 1995. Ram Dass said his father is 90 and was born in 1898, so that means it's 1988 or 1989, probably '89 because right before that Mishlove said "now we're moving into the (19)'90s".
Jeff is fantastic right? I think both guys are totally on point in this amazing interview series. There is enough material here to think about the rest of your life, LOL, and expressed so well by both men. Jeff is really a great interviewer because his questions are solid, simple but rich, and he is an excellent listener who knows how to share his opinion without continually honoring the fact that his guest is to be featured. Not an easy task for a lot of interviewers and he pulls it off brilliantly.
I think its is quite the universal joke that we have been given a conscious that is limitless and can feel/receive the word of God, but only have the means to output the information and experience as rigid, crude, and imperfect sentences.
My question to him would be, would he harden his heart to the point of killing someone like Hitler to save so many others from suffering.. I totally get the “judge the action” mantra, but if the opportunity arose to save so many would you go beyond opposing the action and MAKE an opposing action of your own?
Then you should ask: Would that make the difference? Killing Hitler wouldn't have suppressed the sentiment in Germany in those times, and could've even amplified it, making him a martyr of some sorts. Anyway, of course this is al hypothetical, but coming back to the essence of your question: The crux is in the fact that opposing action almost always begs for an opposing reaction, thus generating new chains of opposing outcomes, that is potentially never ending. The only thing that could break these chains is the mentality of forgiveness. Why cause more bloodshed in answer to bloodshed? A simple concept, but of course incredibly hard in practice. In other words, easier to teach others in youtube comment sections, than it is to apply in one's own life..
what if somehow 'hippie movement' and/or '20th century', being only the assumed context in which some kind of talk just happened to take off, ain't necessarily to determine one's interest or lack of interest around it all? Can't some ideas and styles of expression still be well felt, across various millieu and centuries? idk.
