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Spiritual leader and pioneer of the US psychedelic movement Baba Ram Dass died in Hawaii at the age of 88.
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Richard Alpert (Ram Dass): Harvard psychologist who experimented with psychedelic drugs and became one of America's most prominent and respected spiritual leaders | The BMJ
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