" As Baba Ram Dass (his ‘spiritual name’), Richard Alpert explained human attachment as a ‘clue that there’s work to be done’ – meaning that territoriality was remastered by him as dysfunctional and primitive, and as requiring the curative attentions of a guru, ordinarily an older man. "

― Antonella Gambotto-Burke , Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine