Ram Dass Memoir

For those "of a certain age" who know of his life and work, this book takes you knee-deep into the juicy details of the stages of his personal and spiritual development. However, there's much more to the man born Richard Alpert than his best-known book, as this posthumous memoir, co-written with Das, makes amply clear. Celebrate the publication of Being Ram Dass, the posthumous memoir of America's best-known and beloved spiritual teacher Ram Dass, in a virtual conversation with coauthor Rameshwar Das and Mirabai Bush, founder and director of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. I enjoyed the stories of my dear Satsang friends, and felt Maharaji's spirit throughout the book. He authored or co-authored twelve more books on. While many know of his transformation from Harvard psychology professor Richard Alpert to psychedelic and spiritual icon, Ram Dass tells here for the first time the full arc of his remarkable life. In his posthumous memoir, Being Ram Dass, the beloved cultural and spiritual icon and bestselling author of Be Here Now, shares his experience of his journey from the mind to the heart, from the ego to the soul. 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. Set against a backdrop of nine decades of sweeping cultural change, Being Ram Dass shares. 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 Ram Dass's experience of the cultural and spiritual transformations that resonate with us to this day, a journey from the mind to the heart, from the ego to the.