num_pages: 488
description: Ram Dass lived a full life and then some. His final statement is thorough and yes enlightening.  Kirkus ReviewsPerhaps no other teacher has sparked the fires of as many spiritual seekers in the West as Ram Dass. If youve ever embraced the phrase be here now practiced meditation or yoga tried psychedelics or supported anyone in a hospice prison or homeless centerthen the story of Ram Dass is also part of your story.From his birth in 1931 to his luminous later years Ram Dass saw his life as just one incarnation of many. This memoir puts us in the passenger seat with the one-time Harvard psychologist and lifelong risk-taker Richard Alpert who loved to take friends on wild rides on his Harley and test nearly every boundaryinner or outerthat came his way.Being Ram Dass shares his lifes odyssey in intimate how he struggled with issues of self-identity and sexuality in his youth pioneered psychedelic research and opened the doorways to Eastern spiritual practices. In 1967 he trekked to India and met his guru Neem Karoli Baba. He returned with a perspective on spirituality and psychology that changed millions.Featuring 64 pages of color photographs this intimate memoir chronicles the cultural and spiritual transformations Ram Dass experienced that resonate with us to this day a journey from the mind to the heart from the ego to the soul.Before after and along these waypoints readers will encounter many other adventures and revelationseach ringing with the potential to awaken the universal loving divine that links us to this beloved teacher and all of us to each other.
language: English
title: Being Ram Dass
publisher: Sounds True