Being Ram Dass

by Ram Dass

Other authorsRameshwar Das (Author)
Hardcover, 2021

Publication

Imprint: Boulder, CO : Sounds True, 2021. Edition: First edition. Responsibility: Ram Dass with Rameshwar Das. OCLC Number: 1152462084. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xiv, 409 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Call number

Biography / Ram

Barcode

BK-08398

ISBN

9781683646280

CSS Library Notes

Description: Here, Ram Dass shares his life's odyssey in intimate detail: 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--to return as a yogi and psychologies whose perspective changed millions. -- from jacket flap

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Anne Lamott --
Introduction --
Part I: Learning and unlearning. Fired --
and free --
Power and love --
Mind fields --
Working on the railroad --
Harvard Yard --
Becoming no body --
The Harvard Psilocybin Project --
Acidification --
Hotel Nirvana --
Newton commune --
The center does not hold --
Millbrook morphs --
East versus West --
Mother --
Part II: Pilgrim of the heart. Journey to the East --
The mapmaker --
Instant Yogi --
Quick, get in the car --
From Bindu to Ojas --
A world tour --
Power plays --
Be here now --
Part III: Service center. All doing time --
Brooklyn detour --
Dying project --
How can I help? --
It's only love --
Looking inward, reaching out --
Part IV: The wheel turns. The new old age --
Stroked --
Long road back --
Marooned on Maui --
Only son --
Part V: Ocean view. Heart 2 heart --
Maharaj-ji's Lila --
Closer to home --
The next chapter: Ram Dass: Here/not here.

FY2021 /

Physical description

xiv, 409 p.; 24 cm

Description

Ram Dass tells here, for the first time, the full arc of his remarkable life. Perhaps no other teacher has sparked the fires of as many spiritual seekers in the West as Ram Dass. If you've ever embraced the phrase "be here now," practiced meditation or yoga, tried psychedelics, or supported anyone in a hospice, prison, or homeless center-then 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 boundary-inner or outer-that came his way. Here, Ram Dass shares his life's odyssey in intimate detail: 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. Populated by a cast of luminaries ranging from Timothy Leary to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Allen Ginsberg to Sharon Salzberg, Aldous Huxley to Alan Watts-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, listeners will encounter many other adventures and revelations-each ringing with the potential to awaken the universal, loving divine that links us to this beloved teacher and all of us to each othe… (more)

Language

Original language

English

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