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Show tMf'Tm 8D The Salt Lake Tribune, W Speech Monday, November Itah Rotarians Spiritual Guide in S.L. to Raise Funds By Stephen Hunt Tribune Staff Writer Sharing a journey of spiritual awakening That's what Ram Hass - spiritual was doing 25 guide and teacher years ago with the aid of consciousness altering drugs Today his message is the same, but the path to en lightenment is different and the nature of the listeners has changed In the early 1960s, Ram Dass was a Harvard professor of psychology known as Dr Richard Alpert He, along with fellow professor Dr Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and others who sought to shift their perceptions of reality and "listen more deeply to the universe," experimented with hallucinogenic marijuana, mush- rooms and LSD The message was Turnon tune in anil rlrnn out " Those who listened were "Flower Children," mostly young people who had exponent ed some sort of "initia tion, either via chemicals or a reli" gious pilgrimage to "the Fast Dr Alpert traveled to India himself, following dismissal from Harvard for his drug related activities In India he met his guru, or spiritual teacher, who gave him tne name Ram Dass, which means "Servant of oar 2005 Rotary Foundation has 7 million to help 150 million c hi mure than proint dren from polio. cate poliu d 2oo5 and to immunize children in lesser de eloped conn tries against five other childhoud diseases dnd the Salt Lake Club are celebrating Rotarv Foundation Month in November as part of a worldwue effort to eradi- - Trie c - alio-Kotar- y died mote than J23 TfianLsqima Speaat WEEK ONLY! 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