Ram Dass’ Experience of the Sixties
There was a major shift that occurred in the 60’s, the shift from what you call absolute reality; thinking that what you saw and what your thinking mind thought it understood
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Identity & Ego
How can we navigate our mental projections with more ease?
When I started to dive deeper into my being, I began to rest in a place where I simply became an environment for people to run through their projections without
Attachment
How do we get trapped within psychedelic experiences?
Ram Dass explores the potential trap of high experiences. “Paradise is the prison of the sage as the world is the prisoner of the believer.” – Yahja b. Mu’adh al-Razi
Consciousness & Psychedelics
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 96 – Trust, Contentment and the Guru
On this episode of Here and Now, Raghu and Ram Dass do a live hang out on Skype. Ram Dass talks about intuition and imagination as a method to connect
Consciousness & Psychedelics
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 95 – Plumbing the Depths of the Mystery
Ram Dass talks about the value and limits of psychedelics – when they can enhance the spiritual path, helping us plumb the depths of the mystery, and when there
Consciousness & Psychedelics
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 89 – Edge of the Mystery
Ram Dass talks about being socialized out of any recognition of who we were. Everyone wants to believe they are who they think they are. Through the use of psychedelics
Relationships
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 88 – ‘Love Everyone’ Interviews
< On this special Here and Now podcast, we feature our new book ‘Love Everyone’, stories of the Westerners who heard about Neem Karoli Baba through Ram Dass and went
Identity & Ego
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 86 – Reality of Who We Are
It takes but a flick of a look in a person’s eyes to see who it is you are to them. Which level of reality you exist upon. A
Attachment
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 82 – From Boundaries to the Human Agenda
Ram Dass takes questions from the audience on a variety of topics including letting go of boundaries, “What is the Guru?”, psychedelics, methods as traps and the human agenda
Death, LSD & Maharaji
I had brought a picture with me of a boy who had died in America under strange circumstances. In 1968 he had come to see me in New Hampshire and
The Guru
Ram Dass on Coming Home to Maharaji
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. —RAMAKRISHNA We came to Maharajji’s feet, impelled by our yearning for the living spirit and drawn by his light. We came from Europe
Death & Dying
Burden of Doubt
I was carrying a burden of doubt when I returned to India to see Maharaj-ji in 1970. In America there was a boy who had been my student who had
Ram Dass Gives Maharaji the “Yogi Medicine”
Ram Dass reflects on conscientiously dosing Maharaji with LSD In 1967 when I first came to India, I brought with me a supply of LSD, hoping to find someone who
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 37 – Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley preceded Ram Dass and Tim Leary in explorations of the remote frontiers of the mind and unmapped areas of human consciousness. In Doors of Perception, Huxley studied the
Consciousness & Psychedelics
Embracing Fear
Generally, I think that the first level of fears are concerned with the part of us which is in nature. The unconscious impulses that Freud talks about. And I think
Consciousness & Psychedelics
The First Encounter
Now the reason that my life may be useful, although from most other standpoints it seems, even to me, quite trivial, is that I have led three lives. I have
Attachment
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 16 – Little Shmoos
Ram Dass talks about the somebody training we all go through in life, and how he turned his big, frightening neuroses into friendly, little Shmoos. The Burning Ghats Raghu Markus
Faith
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 8 – It’s All One
Ram Dass examines the interconnection between faiths and breaks down one of Maharaj-ji’s most essential teachings: ‘Sub Ek’ – it’s all one. Click here to read the transcription of this podcast.
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 3 – In Limbo in India
On this episode of the Here and Now Podcast, Ram Dass talks about being in limbo in India in his search for the answers he came for. We hear about