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Ram Dass, the American spiritual teacher, died on December 22, 2019 at the age of 88. He was born Richard Alpert in 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied psychology at Stanford University and Harvard University, where he met his friend and colleague Timothy Leary. In the 1960s, Alpert and Leary experimented with psychedelic drugs, such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms.