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Thank you Oregon!
- Posted on 20th Nov
- Category: Production News
Thank you good people of Oregon for making our run successful in Portland and Corvallis! More pics and videos coming soon!
Stay tuned for more information and additional updates on additional DTK dates in new locations.
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Final 2 Days in Oregon!
- Posted on 18th Nov
- Category: Production News
Oregonian friends! Thank you so much for making our run in Oregon successful. The people in Portland and Corvallis have been incredible.
"Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary" will be ending it's Oregon run on Thursday November 19, 2015. Tell your friends if you haven't already.
Portland:
Corvallis:
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Opening November 13th in Corvallis!
- Posted on 13th Nov
- Category: Production News
For Showtimes and Tickets please visit:
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Held Over in Portland!
- Posted on 11th Nov
- Category: Production News
We're really pleased to announce that Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary will be held over at the Cinema 21 in Portland for another week or so. So, if you haven't taken the trip be sure to do so.
Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave
Portland, OR
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Portland Speaker Schedule!
- Posted on 5th Nov
- Category: Production News
These are the opening week guest speakers who will be on hand for our post show Q and A. Please note that all will appear after the 6:45 show on the date indicated.
Please get your tickets at: http://cinema21.com
Benjy Wertheimer - Benjy is the co-leader of the award winning sacred music group Shantala. Shantala is one of the treasures of the western bhakti yoga movement. An award-winning musician, composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist equally accomplished on tabla, congas, percussion, esraj, guitar, and keyboards, Benjy Wertheimer has performed and recorded with such artists as Krishna Das, Deva Premal and Miten, Jai Uttal, Walter Becker of Steely Dan, virtuoso guitarist Michael Mandrell, tabla master Zakir Hussain, and renowned bamboo flute master G. S. Sachdev. He has also opened for such well-known artists as Carlos Santana, Paul Winter, and Narada Michael Walden. Benjy is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed world fusion ensemble Ancient Future.
Ellen Flenniken - Ellen is the Deputy Director of Development for the Drug Policy Alliance and is responsible for the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of major gifts to support the mission of the Drug Policy Alliance. Before joining DPA, Ellen worked as a political campaign manager and fundraiser, including as Finance Director for Oregon’s Yes on 91 campaign to regulate, legalize and tax marijuana, Campaign Manager for Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), and Deputy Finance Director at Oregon United for Marriage. Ellen received her B.A. in political science and Mandarin Chinese from Middlebury College. Ellen lives in Portland, Oregon. Short Form Bio: Ellen Flenniken is the Deputy Director of Development for the Drug Policy Alliance. Before joining DPA, Ellen worked as a political campaign manager and fundraiser, including as Finance Director for Oregon’s Yes on 91 campaign to regulate, legalize and tax marijuana.
Jerome Beck Ph.D, - Jerome is a drug researcher with extensive experience in many facets of the substance (ab)use field. As a drug information specialist at the University of Oregon Drug Information Center in the 1970's and an instructor at the University of Oregon Health Education Program in the early 1980's, he gained considerable experience in tracking drug trends, and providing educational services to diverse populations of both licit and illicit substance users. After moving to the San Francisco Bay area, he became involved in a number of federally-funded sociological studies of illicit drug users while pursuing his graduate education at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley.In particular, he closely followed and published on the emergence and popularization of MDMA, eventually serving as Project Director for the NIDA-funded "Exploring Ecstasy" study, whose findings informed his dissertation "The MDMA controversy: Contexts of use and social control" (1990). He later co-authored with Dr. Marsha Rosenbaum a book for SUNY Press on that subject, The Pursuit of Ecstasy.Dr. Beck has also served as a Co-Principal Investigator on a three site, NIDA-funded sociological exploration of "Ice and Other Methamphetamine Use." Much of the findings from this research came from in-depth interviews conducted with 450 moderate-to-heavy methamphetamine users living in the San Francisco Bay area, San Diego County or Oahu. More recently, Dr. Beck served as Principal Investigator and Investigator, respectively, on two additional federally funded studies: "LSD, MDMA and Other Psychedelics" and "Epidemiological Study of Marijuana and Health." Dr. Beck has continued to teach a course on "Cultural and Sociohistorical Foundations of Alcohol and Other Drug-Related Problems," in the UC Berkeley Extension Program over the last decade, and currently serves as a Public Health, Policy and Epidemiology Research Administrator for the Tobacco-Related Diseases Research Program (TRDRP) in the University of California Office of the President.More information about Dr. Beck's organization can be found at www.scientificanalysis.org.
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The Ram Dass podcasts!
- Posted on 23rd Oct
- Category: Production News
For all of us who just can't enough of the gift that Ram Dass has given us, head on over to the Mind Pod Network to listen to so many newly unearthed vintage lectures by Ram Dass. Most of these are archival treasures that are not to be missed for anyone on the path.
http://www.mindpodnetwork.com/rd/
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Coming to Portland on November 6th!
- Posted on 16th Oct
- Category: Production News
At the Cinema 21. Check back soon for ticketing information.
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GAY DILLINGHAM ON THE MICHAEL NEELY CONSCIOUSLY SPEAKING PODCAST!
- Posted on 25th Sep
- Category: Production News
Check out our very own Gay Dillingham on the Consciously Speaking podcast with Michael Neely. It's a good one!
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Out Now In Santa Cruz!!
- Posted on 19th Sep
- Category: Production News
"Dying to Know - Ram Dass and Timothy Leary" continues it's successful California run by heading on down to Santa Cruz! It's now playing at The Nickelodeon Theater on a limited basis!
Please buy your tickets early as time is limited!
The Nickelodeon Theater
210 Lincoln St.
Santa Cruz, CA
95060
To buy advance tickets:
http://thenick.com/index.html#nowplaying_DyingtoKnow
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A Transformational Testimonial and Story
- Posted on 26th Aug
- Category: Production News
A wonderfully transformational testimonial on "Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary" from Ryan Keating. Ryan saw the film in Telluride and this is what he wrote...
This last long weekend I was fortunate enough to spend it in Telluride at the 35th annual Mushroom Festival. I am a wellness professional and being educated in massage therapy, training, nutrition, and more recently working in crisis counseling and psychedelic healing I was advised to attend. The Festival was magical on all levels, entheogeniclly and beyond, and one of the bright spots of it was watching the movie “Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary” directed by Gay Dillingham.
I grew up in Northern California in the 80s and 90s and taught high school history and political science in high schools for many years in San Francisco. I was one of those teachers who did not open the prescribed text book and always choose instead to create my own wheel with my own resources and provide an exciting and more “real” education than what was put forth by the state in their bland and narrow minded filtered interpretation of what was deemed appropriate for education. I definitely had exciting units dedicated to the counter culture movement of the 60s and 70s and so I was very excited to see what this movie had to offer. The movie was close to 2 hours and I don’t think I moved once and maybe blinked but ten times at the fear that I would miss even but a few seconds of the rich and interesting history that has been all but lost but now dramatically and energetically recovered in “Dying to Know.”
There was an array of emotions I felt while watching. I was pissed that I hadn’t come across this information first while I was creating curriculum for my students many years ago. Geez, I thought I had cool info to share! Compared to this movie my units were bland. Then I was even more angry that I wasn’t taught the info myself growing up just right outside San Francisco; one of the bases of the counter culture movement. How had nobody told me any of this? Being somebody educated in history and politics I was not aware that Timothy Leary had campaigned for governor against Ronald Reagan and had the Beetles write their “Come Together Right Now Over Me” song for his campaign. Not to mention that shortly after he was jailed for a sentence of forty years for having a half ounce of cannabis on him and then served two years in solitary confinement, upon which after he was conveniently hidden under a witness protection program. It was a very corrupt time in America and the powers that be were squashing the counter culture movement and apparently they were also squashing the history of their shady dealings as people like me had never heard anything about what Timothy Leary went through. I feel cheated by my own education and country.
The movie very much represents the present day energy and culture of America. A new generation is emerging and continuing the trend of what the counter culture movement started in the 60s and 70s. It has gone full circle. Movements like “black lives matter” are scratching the surface of how police brutally treat minorities and exposing white privileged and how racism is as alive and present as it ever has been. Movements like Bernie Sanders running for president are scratching the surface on how corporations and their moneyed interests are controlling the whole country and the political process and destroying the middle class and the availability of good jobs. Drug policy reform activists are scratching the surface and exposing the harsh truth that the drug war is largely racist and putting more people in prison than ever before, not to mention the for profit prisons that are starting to become popular. The nutritional movement is also scratching the surface on the American Standard Diet and how if you trust in eating what is stocked for you at the grocery store and what the government deems healthy by their “Food Guide Pyramid” you will most likely end up malnourished, with diabetes, and extremely unhealthy. Alternative health care professionals (and also many big pharma doctors) are scratching the surface at the medical industry and uncovering the large number of people that are either dying, or are addicted to, or generally have a much lower quality of life from pain killers, anti-depressants, antibiotics, statins, and other prescription drugs. All these people are asking the same questions and coming to the same conclusions. There is a better way and we are stuck in a paradigm shift. The transitional process defined by people trying to expose the truth is only growing greater.
“Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary” was yet another brilliant movement forward in the attempt to uncover the wrongs of the past to make them right and real. It dramatically contributes to the movement at large as yet another entity the populous can point to as truth seeking that directly challenges the powers that be. The counter culture movement of the 60s was squashed by people who were in charge of the government’s institutions, and their ideas and policies have reigned supreme for decades. That chokehold put on our country is now finally losing its momentum. Ram Dass and Timothy Leary were crusaders trying to create an alternative way of thinking that questioned a lot of American culture at the time. Now the children of the 60s counter culture movement are coming of age and a new generation is emerging that is more concerned with what Ram Dass and Timothy Leary were doing than what Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were up to. There’s medicine to be gained, there’s health, there’s an appreciation and acceptance for other’s views and we as a country are rising up and are not being led by our fears anymore. Arrest us all! We’ll see how that panes out and it won’t be in the favor of the oppressors. We are interested in the truth and what has been kept from us for so long. Gay Dillingham’s “Dying to Know” is just another piece of the uncovered knowledge and remarkable history that is now part of the thought process and leading a generational movement that is coming into their own.
