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hreflang="es" data-title="Ram Dass" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Dass" title="Ram Dass – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ram Dass" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Dass" title="Ram Dass – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ram Dass" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="رام داس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="رام داس" 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His best-selling<sup id="cite_ref-Almereyda_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Almereyda-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1971 book <i><a href="/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book)" title="Be Here Now (book)">Be Here Now</a></i>, which has been described by multiple reviewers as "seminal",<sup id="cite_ref-Tempo_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tempo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> helped popularize <a href="/wiki/Eastern_philosophy" title="Eastern philosophy">Eastern spirituality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">yoga</a> in the West.<sup id="cite_ref-Harvey_2010_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harvey_2010-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He authored or co-authored twelve more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including <i>Grist for the Mill</i> (1977), <i>How Can I Help?</i> (1985), and <i>Polishing the Mirror</i> (2013). </p><p>Ram Dass was personally and professionally associated with <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Leary" title="Timothy Leary">Timothy Leary</a> at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> in the early 1960s. Then known as Richard Alpert, he conducted research with Leary on the therapeutic effects of <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_drugs" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychedelic drugs">psychedelic drugs</a>. In addition, Alpert assisted <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Divinity_School" title="Harvard Divinity School">Harvard Divinity School</a> graduate student <a href="/wiki/Walter_Pahnke" title="Walter Pahnke">Walter Pahnke</a> in his 1962 "<a href="/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment" title="Marsh Chapel Experiment">Good Friday Experiment</a>" with theology students, the first controlled, <a href="/wiki/Double-blind_study" class="mw-redirect" title="Double-blind study">double-blind study</a> of drugs and the mystical experience.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HiattJune2016_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HiattJune2016-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While not illegal at the time, their research was controversial and led to Leary's and Alpert's dismissal from Harvard in 1963. </p><p>In 1967, Alpert traveled to <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> and became a disciple of <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> guru <a href="/wiki/Neem_Karoli_Baba" title="Neem Karoli Baba">Neem Karoli Baba</a>, who gave him the name Ram Dass, meaning "Servant of <a href="/wiki/Rama" title="Rama">Ram</a>," but usually rendered simply as "Servant of God" for Western audiences. In the following years, he co-founded the charitable organizations <a href="/wiki/Seva_Foundation" title="Seva Foundation">Seva Foundation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hanuman_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanuman Foundation">Hanuman Foundation</a>. From the 1970s to the 1990s, he traveled extensively, giving talks and retreats and holding fundraisers for charitable causes. In 1997, he had a <a href="/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">stroke</a>, which left him with paralysis and <a href="/wiki/Expressive_aphasia" title="Expressive aphasia">expressive aphasia</a>. He eventually grew to interpret this event as an act of <a href="/wiki/Divine_grace" title="Divine grace">grace</a>, learning to speak again and continuing to teach and write books. After becoming seriously ill during a trip to India in 2004, he gave up traveling and moved to <a href="/wiki/Maui" title="Maui">Maui</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>, where he hosted annual retreats with other spiritual teachers until his death in 2019. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ram Dass was born Richard Alpert in 1931. His parents were Gertrude (Levin) and George Alpert, a lawyer in <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He considered himself an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> during his early life. Speaking at <a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Community_Theater" title="Berkeley Community Theater">Berkeley Community Theater</a> in 1973 he said, "My Jewish trip was primarily political Judaism, I mean I was never Bar Mitzvahed, confirmed, and so on."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2006 article in <i><a href="/wiki/Tufts_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Tufts Magazine">Tufts Magazine</a></i> he was quoted by Sara Davidson, describing himself as "inured to religion. I didn't have one whiff of God until I took <a href="/wiki/Psychedelics" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychedelics">psychedelics</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also interviewed by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_J._Magida" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur J. Magida">Arthur J. Magida</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Omega_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Omega Institute">Omega Institute</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rhinebeck,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhinebeck, New York">Rhinebeck, New York</a>, who published the interview in 2008, quoting Ram Dass as saying "What I mostly remember about my bar mitzvah was that it was an empty ritual. It was flat. Absolutely flat. There was a disappointing hollowness to the moment. There was nothing, nothing, nothing in it for my heart."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education">Education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alpert attended the <a href="/wiki/Williston_Northampton_School" title="Williston Northampton School">Williston Northampton School</a>, graduating <a href="/wiki/Cum_laude" class="mw-redirect" title="Cum laude">cum laude</a> in 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-Adoph_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adoph-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He earned a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> <a href="/wiki/Academic_degree" title="Academic degree">degree</a> in psychology from <a href="/wiki/Tufts_University" title="Tufts University">Tufts University</a> in 1952. His father had wanted him to go to medical school, but while at Tufts he decided to study psychology instead.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After earning a <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">master's degree</a> in psychology from <a href="/wiki/Wesleyan_University" title="Wesleyan University">Wesleyan University</a> in 1954, he was recommended to <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> by his mentor at Wesleyan, <a href="/wiki/David_McClelland" title="David McClelland">David McClelland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alpert wrote his doctoral thesis on "achievement anxiety", receiving his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford in 1957. Alpert then taught at Stanford for one year, and began <a href="/wiki/Psychoanalysis" title="Psychoanalysis">psychoanalysis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Harvard_professorship">Harvard professorship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Harvard professorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McClelland moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to teach at Harvard University, and helped Alpert accept a <a href="/wiki/Tenure-track" class="mw-redirect" title="Tenure-track">tenure-track</a> position there in 1958 as an assistant clinical psychology professor.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AP1983_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AP1983-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mattei_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattei-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alpert worked with the Social Relations Department, the Psychology Department, the Graduate School of Education, and the Health Service, where he was a therapist. He specialized in human motivation and personality development, and published his first book <i>Identification and Child Rearing</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mattei_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattei-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McClelland did work with his close friend and associate <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Leary" title="Timothy Leary">Timothy Leary</a>, a lecturer in clinical psychology at the university.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alpert and Leary had met through McClelland, who headed the Center for Research in Personality where Alpert and Leary both did research.<sup id="cite_ref-AP1983_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AP1983-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alpert was McClelland's deputy in the lab.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Harvard_projects">Harvard projects</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Harvard projects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After returning from a visiting professorship at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>, in 1961, Alpert devoted himself to joining Leary in experimentation with and intensive research into the potentially therapeutic effects of hallucinogenic drugs such as <a href="/wiki/Psilocybin" title="Psilocybin">psilocybin</a>, <a href="/wiki/LSD-25" class="mw-redirect" title="LSD-25">LSD-25</a>, and other <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_drug" title="Psychedelic drug">psychedelic chemicals</a>, through their <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Psilocybin_Project" title="Harvard Psilocybin Project">Harvard Psilocybin Project</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mattei_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattei-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HiattJune2016_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HiattJune2016-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alpert and Leary co-founded the non-profit International Federation for Internal Freedom (IFIF) in 1962 in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a>, Massachusetts, in order to carry out studies in the religious use of psychedelic drugs, and were both on the board of directors.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Grove_Press96_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grove_Press96-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alpert assisted <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Divinity_School" title="Harvard Divinity School">Harvard Divinity School</a> graduate student <a href="/wiki/Walter_Pahnke" title="Walter Pahnke">Walter Pahnke</a> in his 1962 "<a href="/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment" title="Marsh Chapel Experiment">Good Friday Experiment</a>" with theology students, the first controlled, double-blind study of drugs and the mystical experience.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HiattJune2016_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HiattJune2016-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Dismissal_from_Harvard">Dismissal from Harvard</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Dismissal from Harvard"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Leary and Alpert were formally dismissed from Harvard in 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-HiattJune2016_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HiattJune2016-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Harvard President <a href="/wiki/Nathan_M._Pusey" class="mw-redirect" title="Nathan M. Pusey">Nathan M. Pusey</a>, Leary was dismissed for leaving Cambridge and his classes without permission or notice, and Alpert for allegedly giving psilocybin to an undergraduate.<sup id="cite_ref-HiattJune2016_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HiattJune2016-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Millbrook_and_psychedelic_counterculture_(1963–1967)"><span id="Millbrook_and_psychedelic_counterculture_.281963.E2.80.931967.29"></span>Millbrook and psychedelic counterculture (1963–1967)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Millbrook and psychedelic counterculture (1963–1967)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1963 Alpert, Leary, and their followers moved to the <a href="/wiki/Hitchcock_Estate" title="Hitchcock Estate">Hitchcock Estate</a> in <a href="/wiki/Millbrook,_New_York" title="Millbrook, New York">Millbrook, New York</a>, after IFIF's <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> branch director and <a href="/wiki/Mellon_family" title="Mellon family">Mellon</a> fortune heiress Peggy Hitchcock arranged for her brother Billy to rent the estate to IFIF.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Grove_Press97_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grove_Press97-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alpert and Leary immediately set up a communal group with former <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Psilocybin_Project" title="Harvard Psilocybin Project">Harvard Psilocybin Project</a> members at the estate (commonly known as "Millbrook"), and the IFIF was subsequently disbanded and renamed the Castalia Foundation (after the intellectual colony in <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Hesse" title="Hermann Hesse">Hermann Hesse</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game" title="The Glass Bead Game">The Glass Bead Game</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-Chevallier_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chevallier-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Grove_Press98_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grove_Press98-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lander_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lander-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The core group at Millbrook, whose journal was the <i>Psychedelic Review</i>, sought to cultivate the divinity within each person.<sup id="cite_ref-Grove_Press98_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grove_Press98-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Millbrook, they experimented with psychedelics and often participated in group LSD sessions, looking for a permanent route to higher consciousness.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Grove_Press98_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Grove_Press98-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Castalia Foundation hosted weekend retreats on the estate where people paid to undergo the psychedelic experience without drugs, through meditation, yoga, and group therapy sessions.<sup id="cite_ref-Lander_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lander-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alpert and Leary co-authored <i><a href="/wiki/The_Psychedelic_Experience" title="The Psychedelic Experience">The Psychedelic Experience</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Metzner" title="Ralph Metzner">Ralph Metzner</a>, based on the <i><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Book_of_the_Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Tibetan Book of the Dead">Tibetan Book of the Dead</a></i>, published in 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alpert co-authored <i>LSD</i> with <a href="/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Sidney_Cohen" class="mw-redirect" title="History of lysergic acid diethylamide">Sidney Cohen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Schiller" title="Lawrence Schiller">Lawrence Schiller</a> in 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-Mattei_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattei-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1967 Alpert gave talks at the <a href="/wiki/League_for_Spiritual_Discovery" title="League for Spiritual Discovery">League for Spiritual Discovery</a>'s center in <a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Village" title="Greenwich Village">Greenwich Village</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Graboi222-24_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Graboi222-24-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spiritual_search_and_name_change">Spiritual search and name change</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Spiritual search and name change"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1967, Alpert traveled to India where he met American spiritual seeker <a href="/wiki/Bhagavan_Das_(yogi)" title="Bhagavan Das (yogi)">Bhagavan Das</a>, and later met <a href="/wiki/Neem_Karoli_Baba" title="Neem Karoli Baba">Neem Karoli Baba</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neem_Karoli_Baba">Neem Karoli Baba</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Neem Karoli Baba"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Neem_Karoli_Baba" title="Neem Karoli Baba">Neem Karoli Baba</a></div> <p>In 1967, <a href="/wiki/Bhagavan_Das_(yogi)" title="Bhagavan Das (yogi)">Bhagavan Das</a> guided Alpert throughout India, eventually introducing him to <a href="/wiki/Neem_Karoli_Baba" title="Neem Karoli Baba">Neem Karoli Baba</a>, whom Alpert called "Maharaj-ji",<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mattei_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattei-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Graboi267-70_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Graboi267-70-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who became his guru at <a href="/wiki/Kainchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Kainchi">Kainchi</a> ashram. Neem Karoli Baba gave Alpert the name "Ram Dass", which means "servant of God",<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Almereyda_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Almereyda-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> referring to the incarnation of God as Ram or Lord <a href="/wiki/Rama" title="Rama">Rama</a>. Alpert also corresponded with Indian spiritual teacher <a href="/wiki/Meher_Baba" title="Meher Baba">Meher Baba</a> and mentioned Baba in several of his books.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The day after their first meeting, Neem Karoli Baba asked Alpert to give him the "medicine". Alpert gave him one dose of "white lightning", but he asked for 2 more tabs (915 μg or 9 times the average dose); after trying them, the LSD seemed to have no psychotropic effect on <a href="/wiki/Neem_Karoli_Baba" title="Neem Karoli Baba">Neem Karoli Baba</a>, but instead told him that the same state could be achieved through meditation and that he could live in that state. After this, <a href="/wiki/Neem_Karoli_Baba" title="Neem Karoli Baba">Neem Karoli Baba</a> became Richard Alpert's guru, and gave him the name "Ram Dass", which means "servant of God",<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Almereyda_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Almereyda-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> referring to the incarnation of God as Ram or Lord <a href="/wiki/Rama" title="Rama">Rama</a>. Ram Dass called his new guru "Maharaj-ji", and studied with him the following four years.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mattei_17-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattei-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Graboi267-70_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Graboi267-70-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Be_Here_Now"><i>Be Here Now</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Be Here Now"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book)" title="Be Here Now (book)">Be Here Now (book)</a></div> <p>After Alpert returned to America as Ram Dass, he stayed as a guest at the <a href="/wiki/Lama_Foundation" title="Lama Foundation">Lama Foundation</a> in <a href="/wiki/Taos,_New_Mexico" title="Taos, New Mexico">Taos, New Mexico</a>. Ram Dass had helped Steve Durkee (<a href="/wiki/Nooruddeen_Durkee" title="Nooruddeen Durkee">Nooruddeen Durkee</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Durkee" title="Barbara Durkee">Barbara Durkee</a> (Asha Greer or Asha von Briesen) co-found the countercultural, spiritual community in 1967, and it had an ashram dedicated to Ram Dass's guru. During Ram Dass's visit, he presented a manuscript he had written, entitled <i>From Bindu to Ojas</i>. The community's residents edited, illustrated, and laid out the text, which ultimately became a best-selling book when published under the name <i><a href="/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book)" title="Be Here Now (book)">Be Here Now</a></i> in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-Tempo_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tempo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Almereyda_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Almereyda-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SNAC_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SNAC-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Romancito2017_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Romancito2017-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Boyle2017_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boyle2017-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tomasko2010_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tomasko2010-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 416-page manual for conscious being was published by the Lama Foundation, as Ram Dass's benefit for the community.<sup id="cite_ref-Tempo_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tempo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Be Here Now</i> contained Ram Dass's account of his spiritual journey, as well as recommended spiritual techniques and quotes.<sup id="cite_ref-Mattei_17-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattei-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It became a popular guide to <a href="/wiki/New_Age" title="New Age">New Age</a> spirituality,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> selling two million copies.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The proceeds helped sustain the Lama Foundation for several years, after which they donated the book's copyright and half its proceeds to the Hanuman Foundation in Taos.<sup id="cite_ref-Tempo_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tempo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Be Here Now</i> is one of the first guides for those not born <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> to becoming a <a href="/wiki/Yogi" title="Yogi">yogi</a>. For its influence on the <a href="/wiki/Hippie" title="Hippie">hippie</a> movement and subsequent spiritual movements,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it has been described as a "countercultural bible" and "seminal" to the era.<sup id="cite_ref-Tempo_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tempo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Harvey_2010_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harvey_2010-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to introducing its title phrase into common use, <i>Be Here Now</i> has influenced numerous other writers and yoga practitioners, including the <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a> co-founder <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jobs" title="Steve Jobs">Steve Jobs</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the self-help writer <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Dyer" title="Wayne Dyer">Wayne Dyer</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the poet <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti" title="Lawrence Ferlinghetti">Lawrence Ferlinghetti</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first section of the book inspired the lyrics to <a href="/wiki/George_Harrison" title="George Harrison">George Harrison</a>'s song "<a href="/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(George_Harrison_song)" title="Be Here Now (George Harrison song)">Be Here Now</a>", written in 1971 and released on his 1973 album <i><a href="/wiki/Living_in_the_Material_World" title="Living in the Material World">Living in the Material World</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Foundations_and_Living/Dying_Project"><span id="Foundations_and_Living.2FDying_Project"></span>Foundations and Living/Dying Project</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Foundations and Living/Dying Project"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the 1970s, Ram Dass taught, wrote, and worked with foundations.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He founded the Hanuman Foundation, a nonprofit educational and service organization that initiated the <a href="/wiki/Prison-Ashram_Project" title="Prison-Ashram Project">Prison-Ashram Project</a> (now known as the Human Kindness Foundation), in 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-Mattei_17-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattei-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tomasko2010_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tomasko2010-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Hanuman Foundation strives to improve the spiritual well-being of society through education, media and community service programs. </p><p>In 1978, Ram Dass co-founded the <a href="/wiki/Seva_Foundation" title="Seva Foundation">Seva Foundation</a> with public health leader <a href="/wiki/Larry_Brilliant" title="Larry Brilliant">Larry Brilliant</a> and humanitarian activist <a href="/wiki/Wavy_Gravy" title="Wavy Gravy">Wavy Gravy</a>. The foundation joined with health-care workers to treat the blind in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>, and developing countries.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mattei_17-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattei-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tomasko2010_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tomasko2010-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has become an international health organization. </p><p>In the early 1970s, Ram Dass taught workshops on conscious aging and dying around the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-Tomasko2010_35-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tomasko2010-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_K%C3%BCbler-Ross" title="Elisabeth Kübler-Ross">Elisabeth Kübler-Ross</a> was one of his students.<sup id="cite_ref-Matsushita2012_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matsushita2012-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ram Dass helped create the Dying Project with its Executive Director Dale Borglum, whom he had met in India.<sup id="cite_ref-Matsushita2012_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matsushita2012-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, Borglum was also executive director of the Hanuman Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-Matsushita2012_44-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matsushita2012-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Living/Dying Project, based in <a href="/wiki/Marin,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Marin, California">Marin, California</a>, starting in 1986, was initially named the Dying Center and located in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico" title="Santa Fe, New Mexico">Santa Fe, New Mexico</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mattei_17-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mattei-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Matsushita2012_44-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matsushita2012-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Dying Center was the first residential facility in the U.S. where people came to die "consciously".<sup id="cite_ref-Matsushita2012_44-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matsushita2012-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1981, he appeared on an <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> <a href="/wiki/Radio_documentary" title="Radio documentary">radio documentary</a> about death and near-death experiences that aired on the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">ABC</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/And_When_I_Die,_Will_I_Be_Dead%3F" title="And When I Die, Will I Be Dead?">And When I Die, Will I Be Dead?</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-hill_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hill-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was adapted into a book in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-elder_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elder-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ram Dass also served on the faculty of the Metta Institute where he provided training on mindful and compassionate care of the dying. </p><p>The Love Serve Remember Foundation was organized to preserve and continue the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. </p><p>Over the course of his life, since the inception of the Hanuman Foundation, Ram Dass donated his book royalties and profits from teaching to his foundation and other charitable causes. The annual estimate of the earnings he donated ranges from $100,000 to $800,000.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life">Later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His guru, Neem Karoli Baba, died on 11 September 1973. </p><p>Timothy Leary and Ram Dass, who had grown apart after Ram Dass denounced Leary in a 1974 news conference, reconciled in 1983 at Harvard (at a reunion for the 20th anniversary of their controversial firing from the Harvard faculty), and reunited before Leary's death in May 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Turan2016_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Turan2016-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ram Dass explored <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a> seriously for the first time when he was 60 years old. He wrote, "My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that", and "From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you."<sup id="cite_ref-Rifkin_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rifkin-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 1997, Ram Dass had a <a href="/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">stroke</a> that left him with <a href="/wiki/Expressive_aphasia" title="Expressive aphasia">expressive aphasia</a>, which he interpreted as an act of <a href="/wiki/Divine_grace" title="Divine grace">grace</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Matsushita2012_44-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matsushita2012-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He stated, "The stroke was giving me lessons, and I realized that was grace—fierce grace ... Death is the biggest change we'll face, so we need to practice change."<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After he almost died from a second stroke during a trip to India in 2004, Ram Dass moved to <a href="/wiki/Maui" title="Maui">Maui</a>. In 2013, Ram Dass released a memoir and summary of his teaching, <i>Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart</i>. In an interview about the book, at age 82, he said that his earlier reflections about facing old age and death now seem naive to him. He said, in part: "Now, I'm in my 80s ... Now, I am aging. I am approaching death. I'm getting closer to the end. ... Now, I really am ready to face the music all around me."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ram Dass did not leave the <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands" title="Hawaiian Islands">Hawaiian Islands</a> until July 2019, when he attended the consecration of a new Hanuman Mandir in Taos, New Mexico, on July 13, 2019,<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after which he returned to Hawaii and continued to make public appearances and to give talks at small venues; held retreats in Maui; and continued to teach through live <a href="/wiki/Webcasts" class="mw-redirect" title="Webcasts">webcasts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Matsushita2012_44-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matsushita2012-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ram Dass died in <a href="/wiki/Maui" title="Maui">Maui</a>, on December 22, 2019, at the age of 88.<sup id="cite_ref-SaraDavidson_8-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaraDavidson-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tomasko2010_35-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tomasko2010-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Matsushita2012_44-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matsushita2012-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1990s, Ram Dass discussed his <a href="/wiki/Bisexuality" title="Bisexuality">bisexuality</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Davidson2001_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Davidson2001-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Maines2010_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maines2010-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thompson1997_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thompson1997-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He stated, "I've started to talk more about being bisexual, being involved with men as well as women," and added his opinion that for him, his sexuality "isn't gay, and it's not not-gay, and it's not anything—it's just awareness."<sup id="cite_ref-Thompson1997_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thompson1997-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At 78, Ram Dass learned that he had fathered a son as a 24-year-old at Stanford, during a brief relationship with history major Karen Saum, and that he was now a grandfather. The fact came to light when his son, Peter Reichard, a 53-year-old banker in North Carolina, took a DNA test after learning about his mother's doubt concerning his parentage.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HuffPost_Media_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HuffPost_Media-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Identification and Child Rearing</i> (with R. Sears and L. Rau) (1962) <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University_Press" title="Stanford University Press">Stanford University Press</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Psychedelic_Experience" title="The Psychedelic Experience">The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Leary" title="Timothy Leary">Timothy Leary</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Metzner" title="Ralph Metzner">Ralph Metzner</a>) (1964) <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8065-1652-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8065-1652-6">0-8065-1652-6</a></li> <li><i>LSD</i> (with Sidney Cohen) (1966) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-453-00120-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-453-00120-3">0-453-00120-3</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book)" title="Be Here Now (book)">Be Here Now</a></i> or <i>Remember, Be Here Now</i> (1971) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-517-54305-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-517-54305-2">0-517-54305-2</a></li> <li><i>Doing Your Own Being</i> (1973)</li> <li><i>The Only Dance There Is</i> (1974) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-08413-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-08413-7">0-385-08413-7</a></li> <li><i>Grist for the Mill</i> (with Stephen Levine) (1977) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89087-499-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-89087-499-9">0-89087-499-9</a></li> <li><i>Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook</i> (1978) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-553-28572-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-553-28572-6">0-553-28572-6</a></li> <li><i>Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba</i> (1978) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-525-47611-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-525-47611-3">0-525-47611-3</a></li> <li><i>How Can I Help? Stories and Reflections on Service</i> (with Paul Gorman) (1985) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-394-72947-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-394-72947-1">0-394-72947-1</a></li> <li><i>Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service</i> (with Mirabai Bush) (1991) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-517-57635-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-517-57635-X">0-517-57635-X</a></li> <li><i>Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying</i> (2000) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57322-871-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-57322-871-0">1-57322-871-0</a></li> <li><i>Paths to God: Living The Bhagavad Gita</i> (2004) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4000-5403-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-4000-5403-6">1-4000-5403-6</a></li> <li><i>Be Love Now (with Rameshwar Das)</i> (2010) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84604-291-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-84604-291-7">1-84604-291-7</a></li> <li><i>Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart (with Rameshwar Das)</i> (2013) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-60407-967-3" title="Special:BookSources/1-60407-967-3">1-60407-967-3</a></li> <li><i>Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying (with Mirabai Bush)</i> (2018) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-68364-200-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-68364-200-7">1-68364-200-7</a></li> <li><i>Being Ram Dass (with Rameshwar Das)</i> (2021) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781683646280" title="Special:BookSources/9781683646280">9781683646280</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recordings">Recordings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Psychedelic_Experience" title="The Psychedelic Experience">The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Leary" title="Timothy Leary">Timothy Leary</a> & <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Metzner" title="Ralph Metzner">Ralph Metzner</a>) (1966) (reissued on CD in 2003 by Folkways)</li> <li><i>Here We All Are</i>, a 3-LP set recorded live in Vancouver, BC in the summer of 1969.</li> <li><i>Love Serve Remember</i> (1973), a six-album set of teachings, data, and spiritual songs (<a href="/wiki/ZBS_Foundation" title="ZBS Foundation">ZBS Foundation</a>) (released in MP3 format, 2008)</li> <li><i>The Evolution of Consciousness</i> (1973), a 3-LP set recorded live in NYC, March 1969 (Noumedia Co - Harbinger Records Ltd.)</li> <li><i>Cosmix</i> (2008), a video enhanced CD of Ram Dass messages mixed with work by Australian DJ and performer Kriece, released on Waveform Records.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Ram Dass</i> (2019) collaborative album with musician <a href="/wiki/East_Forest" title="East Forest">East Forest</a> featuring the final recorded teachings of Ram Dass.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Colorscapes Volume Two</i> (2021), a Progressive House/Trance compilation album mixed by Praana, Dezza & Matt Fax with audio from Ram Dass.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Films">Films</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>A Change of Heart</i>, a 1994 one-hour documentary directed by Eric Taylor and hosted by Ram Dass and shown on many PBS stations. It examined taking social action as a meditative act.</li> <li><i>Ecstatic States</i>, a 1996 interview on VHS, by Wiseone Edutainment Pty.</li> <li><i>Ram Dass, Fierce Grace</i>, a 2001 biographical documentary directed by Micky Lemle.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Ram Dass – Love Serve Remember</i>, a 2010 short film directed by <a href="/wiki/V._Owen_Bush" title="V. Owen Bush">V. Owen Bush</a>, included in the <i>Be Here Now Enhanced Edition</i> eBook.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dying_to_Know:_Ram_Dass_%26_Timothy_Leary" title="Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary">Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary</a></i>, a 2014 documentary dual portrait.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ram_Dass,_Going_Home" title="Ram Dass, Going Home">Ram Dass, Going Home</a></i>, a 2017 documentary portrait of Ram Dass in his later years, directed by Derek Peck.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Ram Dass, Becoming Nobody</i>, a 2019 documentary portrait of Richard Alpert becoming Ram Dass and Ram Dass becoming nobody. The slogan of the film is: <i>You have to be somebody to become nobody</i>. Directed by Jamie Catto.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_C._Lilly" title="John C. Lilly">John C. Lilly</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ram_Dass&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Oliver-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Oliver_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOliver2019" class="citation web cs1">Oliver, Joan Duncan (December 23, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/ram-dass-dies/">"Ram Dass, Beloved Spiritual Teacher, Has Died"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Tricycle:_The_Buddhist_Review" title="Tricycle: The Buddhist Review">Tricycle: The Buddhist Review</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Tricycle%3A+The+Buddhist+Review&rft.atitle=Ram+Dass%2C+Beloved+Spiritual+Teacher%2C+Has+Died&rft.date=2019-12-23&rft.aulast=Oliver&rft.aufirst=Joan+Duncan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftricycle.org%2Ftrikedaily%2Fram-dass-dies%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARam+Dass" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCharet2013" class="citation book cs1">Charet, F. 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Leary</a></i> (2014 documentary)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ram_Dass,_Going_Home" title="Ram Dass, Going Home">Ram Dass, Going Home</a></i> (2017 documentary)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Knows" title="Tomorrow Never Knows">Tomorrow Never Knows</a>" (song)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(George_Harrison_song)" title="Be Here Now (George Harrison song)">"Be Here Now" (song)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Modern_Hindu_writers_(1848_to_date)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" 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United States</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Knows" title="Tomorrow Never Knows">Tomorrow Never Knows</a>" (1966 song)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Legend_of_a_Mind" title="Legend of a Mind">Legend of a Mind</a>" (1968 song)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Come_Together" title="Come Together">Come Together</a>" (1969 song)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Return_Engagement_(1983_film)" title="Return Engagement (1983 film)">Return Engagement</a></i> (1983 documentary)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sekhmet_Hypothesis" title="The Sekhmet Hypothesis">The Sekhmet Hypothesis</a></i> (1995 book)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dying_to_Know:_Ram_Dass_%26_Timothy_Leary" title="Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary">Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary</a></i> (2014 documentary)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joanna_Harcourt-Smith" title="Joanna Harcourt-Smith">Joanna Harcourt-Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winona_Ryder" title="Winona Ryder">Winona Ryder</a> (goddaughter)</li></ul> 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