Love & Compassion
How can we cultivate a compassionate heart to find freedom?
We all know our humanity too well. That is why we put the focus on recognizing the part of us that isn’t stuck in the human-ness. Not to deny our
Richard Alpert Archives
Attachment
What is Karma Yoga and how can we take right action?
Karma Yoga is using your Karma as a way of coming into union with God. It’s using the stuff of…
“R.D. says we are not our bodies. Amen.”
For some years in California, a young man came to my lectures in a bed, brought in a bed. He was a quadriplegic. He could not speak. He was about
The Guru
Krishna Das: Remarkable Encounters
If there is one day in a life that was the end of one thing and the beginning of another thing that was the day I met Ram Dass… Before
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
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
Faith
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 5 – Darshan
Ram Dass relays some of the teachings around renunciation, shakti, violence and truthfulness that he received in his many months of study while in India. Click here to read the transcription
Consciousness & Psychedelics
Ram Dass – Here and Now – Episode 4 – Guru Found
Now, with his guru found, Ram Dass continues on with the most difficult part of his journey for truth – the journey within. Click here to read the transcription of this