New Releases by Ram Dass

An essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features never-before-published teachings to abandon the idea there is an “other,” bridging differences and cherishing the beautiful Earth that is our home, from beloved spiritual leader Ram Dass. With the world seeming to teeter between democracy and authoritarianism, between humanitarianism and individualism, Ram Dass’s teachings on wholeness and unity are more needed than ever. There Is No Other is a groundbreaking work showcasing the late spiritual leader’s thoughts and insights on broaching the divide and bringing disparate souls together. In these profound, never-before-released writings, Ram Dass shows us how a house divided against itself—whether that “house” is our individual self or the society in which we live—can come together in wholeness. There is no “other,” he explains. It is all one. Structured in three sections, There Is No Other teaches us to open ourselves, come together in community, and love one another—and ourselves—across all our seeming contradictions and divisions. Anne Lamott contributes a beautiful foreword and each section is followed by a short essay reflecting on the endurance of Ram Dass’s ideas penned by Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, and Sharon Salzberg, as well as guided meditations to deepen each lesson. As he leads us toward wholeness not within our unique selves but as a human community, Ram Dass gives us the most precious gift: hope. Only in seeing ourselves in our complexity can we come together and honor the sacred planet we inhabit.

Words of Wisdom is a distillation of the last five decades of Ram Dass’s life containing the most powerful quotes from his most resonant core teachings. Ram Dass always had a knack for heart-to-heart transmission. Far before he had a vocabulary to describe his spiritual experiences, he was Richard Alpert, a Harvard professor and early experimenter with psychedelics. After these early soul-expanding journeys, he spoke and wrote about his transcendent experiences with the innate, intuitive understanding of a true inner-voyager. Even before Alpert realized that psychedelics weren''t the final answer to enlightenment, he was more interested in cultivating a shared heart space with his patients and friends than he was in the clinical, scientific side of psychedelia. Words of Wisdom is a distillation of hundreds of lectures and many hours of audio and video recordings from the last five decades—his core essential teachings. This anthology celebrates the spark that helped to ignite the flame of grace and Loving Awareness in so many hearts. By the end of his life, Ram Dass was a true conduit for soul connection. This anthology celebrates the spark that helped to ignite the flame of grace and Loving Awareness in so many hearts. By the end of his life, Ram Dass was a true conduit for soul connection. Through five decades of teaching in both the institutional and public realms, Dass has served as a leader in spirituality, psychology, and psychedelia, fusing these elements to embody a purposeful intention of love and joy.

Nato nel 1931 Richard Alpert, meglio noto come Ram Dass, racconta in dettaglio, con la schiettezza disarmante e l’irresistibile umorismo che lo hanno sempre distinto, le esperienze da lui vissute mentre il mondo occidentale muoveva i primi passi con le sostanze psichedeliche e andava incontro all’Oriente alla ricerca di una spiritualità più viva e profonda. Psicologo ad Harvard, nel 1967 Ram Dass si reca infatti in India dove, dopo mille vicissitudini, incontra il suo maestro Neem Karoli Baba. Sotto la sua guida viene introdotto alla meditazione e allo yoga e, soprattutto, alla visione oltre i propri condizionamenti e schemi mentali. Il dirompente cambiamento da lui vissuto ha provocato di riflesso un grosso impatto sulle trasformazioni culturali e spirituali della sua generazione. Forse nessuno più di Ram Dass ha alimentato in Occidente l’amore e l’ardore per la ricerca spirituale. Se hai mai fatto tua la frase “essere qui, adesso”, se hai praticato meditazione o yoga, provato sostanze psichedeliche, aiutato qualcuno in casa di cura, carcere o rifugio per senzatetto, se sei mai andato alla ricerca della verità spingendoti oltre le credenze sociali, rompendo schemi, osando e arrivando fino ai confini della percezione umana, allora la storia di Ram Dass è anche la tua.

A year before Ram Dass''s passing, he engaged in an intimate dialogue with his dear friend, Mirabai Bush. Walking Each Other Home presents their extraordinary discussion about loving and dying, sharing their stories, favorite practices, and deep wisdom about the most important, final step on our spiritual journey through this lifetime.

A Ram Dass-themed journal for contemplation and reflection, featuring inspiring quotes from Ram Dass that offer writers and seekers a tool for cultivating honesty, compassion and love. Reflections on the Journey is a Ram Dass-inspired journal containing 12 contemplative quotes by Ram Dass and 190 lined pages for writing and reflection. The quotes are carefully curated to inspire readers and writers to search deeper within themselves to witness the truth of their being. Each quote contains loving and heartening Ram Dass wisdom, offering readers and writers a resonant tool to help them follow their life path with honesty, compassion and love.

“Ram Dass lived a full life and then some. His final statement is thorough and, yes, enlightening.” —Kirkus Reviews 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. Being 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. 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 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 other.

A veces la iluminación se da de forma espontánea o, como experimentó Ram Dass, en un intenso momento de apertura. Pero lo más común es que tenga lugar cuando con la práctica diaria pulimos el espejo del corazón y vemos más allá de la ilusión de nuestros pensamientos y emociones transitorios, hasta el enorme y luminoso paisaje de nuestra verdadera naturaleza. Durante cinco décadas, Ram Dass ha explorado las profundidades de la conciencia y el amor, y les ha dado vida para que presten servicio a otros. Con Puliendo el espejo, reúne sus enseñanzas esenciales para vivir en el eterno presente, aquí y ahora.os lectores encontrarán en estas páginas una rica combinación de sabiduría perenne, humor, historias y una guía detallada de las prácticas espirituales de Ram Dass, incluidos: o Bhakti Yoga: abrir nuestros corazones al amor incondicional. o Prácticas para vivir, envejecer, morir y aceptar el flujo natural de la vida. o Karma Yoga: cómo las acciones altruistas pueden transformarnos profundamente. o Trabajar con el miedo y el sufrimiento como camino hacia la gracia y la libertad. o Guía paso a paso para el canto devocional, la meditación y la práctica de mantras, y mucho más Para quienes no conozcan las enseñanzas de Ram Dass, así como para quienes ya sean viejos amigos suyos, aquí tienen esta guía completa del explorador espiritual vanguardista para descubrir quiénes somos y por qué estamos aquí, y cómo nos convertimos en ejemplos de amor incondicional.

Sul finire degli anni Settanta, un giovane psicologo di Harvard intraprende un viaggio in India. È alla ricerca della propria identità e di una nuova prospettiva sulla vita, quella che ha intravisto attraverso le sperimentazioni con le droghe psichedeliche, ma che gli è sfuggita, effimera, alla fine di ogni trip. In India incontra, quasi per caso, il guru Neem Karoli Baba. Per la prima volta scopre cosa significhi l’amore incondizionato verso tutto e tutti, un’esperienza che cambia radicalmente la sua percezione della realtà. Inizia così un percorso spirituale sul “sentiero del cuore” che durerà più di quarant’anni. In questo libro Ram Dass, uno dei più grandi maestri delle discipline spirituali orientali in Occidente, traccia la mappa per chiunque intenda intraprendere un cammino di crescita spirituale, ripercorrendo le esperienze del suo stesso percorso tra aneddoti curiosi e divertenti e storie ricche di fascino. Una stella polare per chiunque desideri accrescere la propria consapevolezza spirituale e migliorare la propria capacità di servire e amare il mondo che lo circonda.

The talks presented in this volume, first published in 1977, were originally delivered during a retreat in New York, in which speakers from a variety of spiritual traditions were represented. It aims to show the value of yoga in everyday life, and its relation to many other religions and philosophies.

This is a research journal/compilation more than a book. Three years in, and Dark Retreat continues to heal the author from an Ayahausca initiation that pushed his bandwidth right to the edge. Of course the Motherboard knows all, but Ayahausca has given a few adventurers a permanent body exit with which to reboot. Darkness took the fear away, healed the adrenal shock, and allowed the space for grace. It seems that Darkness reveals we are all black "wholes" feeding back data to the cosmos. And in the dark the stars turn on, literally, from within. In this expanded third edition, we include a Harvard research team''s modernization of The Tibetan Book of the Dead (correctly translated: "Liberate from the cycle of birth and death through hearing".) As we find more masters of Darkness practice, we will continue adding to this text. Some side benefits of Dark Retreats are organ healing, adrenal rejuvenation, and with the Tao exercises, sacred sexuality and heavy metal detox. There''s a lot to it... and Master Chia led the way. The Tibetan and Hindu traditions add in their specific enlightenment and rejuvenation paths. And the Kogi, up next for research, have their top Shamans in the Dark for 21 years! It works.

Il arrive parfois que l’illumination jaillisse spontanément ou, comme l’a vécue Ram Dass, lors d’un moment d’ouverture déchirant. Elle se manifeste plus souvent lorsqu’on polit le miroir du coeur en pratiquant quotidiennement – et quand on voit au-delà de l’illusion créée par nos pensées et nos émotions transitoires du vaste et lumineux paysage qu’est notre vraie nature. Pendant cinq décennies, Ram Dass a exploré les profondeurs de la conscience et de l’amour, et il leur a donné vie en les mettant au service des autres. Avec Polir le miroir, l’auteur rassemble ses enseignements essentiels pour vivre le présent éternel, ici et maintenant.

Nur wenige Menschen sind den Pfad der Hingabe so konsequent gegangen wie Ram Dass. Warmherzig und humorvoll lässt er uns an seinem eigenen spirituellen Weg teilhaben und fordert dazu auf, selbst diese niemals endende Reise vom Kopf ins Herz zu unternehmen und gemeinsam eine neue Welt zu schaffen. In einer Mischung aus Biografie und spirituellem Wegweiser befasst er sich kurzweilig und dennoch tiefgreifend mit Themen, die uns alle angehen: Zufriedenheit, wahres Sein und bewusstes Altern. Durchsetzt mit Meditationen und Übungen ist dieses Buch ein praktischer Führer zu Liebe und Erwachen!

Since Bhakti Fest''s inception, Ram Dass has made an annual appearance through exclusive interviews with founder, Sridhar Silberfein, who travels to Maui each year and films their conversations. Known for their humor, inspiration, and unmasked devotional attitude, these videos have been a highlight of the festival for the past six years. Transcribed for print and edited by Amy V. Dewhurst, author of Heartbreak Yoga, with a forward by notable kirtan artist Krishna Das, these illuminating conversations are presented in ways that are relatable to the Western yogi, no matter their level of practice or experience with yoga and Eastern spirituality.

From the bestselling author of Be Here Now. “A challenging and enlightening collection of speeches and lectures by Ram Dass on his spiritual journey.” —Spirituality & Practice From Ram Dass, one of America’s most beloved spiritual figures and bestselling author of Be Here Now and Be Love Now, comes this timeless classic about the experience of being and the risks and rewards of our spiritual path. Originally published in 1976, Grist for the Mill offers a deep spiritual journey of self-discovery, and a universal understanding of what it means to “be” and to grow as human beings. The book is fully revised with a new introduction. As Ram Dass puts it, “When the faith is strong enough it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.” Praise for Ram Dass “One of our greatest teachers.” —Deepak Chopra “There’s no way to overestimate the role of Ram Dass.” —Marianne Willliamson “May Ram Dass inspire others to find their own path of true love, compassion, and joyful service.” —Thich Nhat Hanh

Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a heart-wrenching moment of opening. More commonly, it happens when we polish the mirror of the heart with daily practice—and see beyond the illusion of our transient thoughts and emotions to the vast and luminous landscape of our true nature. For five decades, Ram Dass has explored the depths of consciousness and love and brought them to life as service to others. With Polishing the Mirror, he gathers together his essential teachings for living in the eternal present, here and now. Readers will find within these pages a rich combination of perennial wisdom, humor, teaching stories, and detailed guidance on Ram Dass'' own spiritual practices, including: Bhakti Yoga—opening our hearts to unconditional lovePractices for living, aging, dying, and embracing the natural flow of lifeKarma Yoga—how selfless service can profoundly transform usWorking with fear and suffering as a path to grace and freedomStep-by-step guidance in devotional chant, meditation and mantra practice, and much more For those new to Ram Dass'' teachings, and for those to whom they are old friends, here is this vanguard spiritual explorer''s complete guide to discovering who we are and why we are here, and how to become beacons of unconditional love.

Ram Dass laat ons zien dat onvoorwaardelijke liefde persoonlijk en spiritueel is. In dit boek wordt de verhouding tussen de leerling en de goeroe met zeldzame innigheid en liefde beschreven. Maharaji, de Indiase goeroe van Ram Dass, personifieert voor de auteur de onvoorwaardelijke liefde. Het is mooi en ontroerend om Ram Dass in zijn diepgaande veranderingsproces te volgen. In deze autobiografie staat de innerlijke pelgrimage op de voorgrond.

Featuring an eye-catching new cover, this classic guide is for those ready to commit time and energy to relieving suffering in the world. No two people are better qualified to help us along this path than Ram Dass, who has spent more than 25 years teaching and writing on the subject of living consciously, and Mirabi Bush, who succeeded him as chairperson of the Seva Foundation.

Ram Dass, one of America''s most beloved spiritual teachers, sparked a revolution forty years ago with the publication of Be Here Now. This landmark classic inspired an entire generation to see the world in a different light. Over the past four decades Ram Dass has been a beacon for seekers worldwide, challenging us to find new sources of meaning and purpose in our lives. Be Love Now is the third book in a trilogy that began with Be Here Now and was followed by Still Here, Ram Dass''s acclaimed work on aging, changing, and dying. In Be Love Now, Ram Dass shares what he has learned in his remarkable four-decade-long spiritual journey. Through timeless teaching stories, compelling and often humorous personal anecdotes, and soul-stirring insights, Ram Dass tracks the stages of his own awakening in his trademark down-to-earth style. Starting with his days as Harvard psychologist and psychedelic inventurer, continuing through his profound encounters with his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, and moving beyond the reawakening brought on by his near-fatal stroke, Ram Dass shares his life experiences while offering a timeless teaching on love and the path of the heart. Guiding us through the pitfalls and perils of our own spiritual path, Be Love Now is both a deeply personal and wonderfully universal exploration that will open hearts and minds. Ram Dass once again blazes a new trail, inviting all to join him on this next stage of the journey.

The enhanced edition of Be Here Now includes: Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty minute video retrospective of Ram Dass'' spiritual journey *The first chapter of Ram Dass'' new book, Be Love Now

No understanding of the history of the sixties could be complete without a grasp of the work of Leary, Alpert, and Metzner, the cultural resistance to their experiments, and the way in which psychoactive drug use became a part of contemporary society. Next Generation Independent Book Awards Finalist,Birth of a Psychedelic Culture explores these experiments and their cultural milieu through never before seen photographs, personal accounts of authors Ralph Metzner and Ram Dass, and conversations with luminaries such as Aldous Huxley, Charles Mingus, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others that appeared on the scene.

For centuries, readers have turned to the Bhagavad Gita for inspiration and guidance as they chart their own spiritual paths. As profound and powerful as this classic text has been for generations of seekers, integrating its lessons into the ordinary patterns of our lives can ultimately seem beyond our reach. Now, in a fascinating series of reflections, anecdotes, stories, and exercises, Ram Dass gives us a unique and accessible road map for experiencing divinity in everyday life. In the engaging, conversational style that has made his teachings so popular for decades, Ram Dass traces our journey of consciousness as it is reflected in one of Hinduism’s most sacred texts. The Gita teaches a system of yogas, or “paths for coming to union with God.” In Paths to God, Ram Dass brings the heart of that system to light for a Western audience and translates the Gita’s principles into the manual for living the yoga of contemporary life. While being a guide to the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, Paths to God is also a template for expanding our definition of ourselves and allowing us to appreciate a new level of meaning in our lives.

Ram Dass has always been a master of the one-liner. Here is the nitty-gritty by the author of Be Here Now—more than 200 penetrating observations and pithy spiritual instructions on such topics as How It All Is, Love and Devotion, Suffering, Aging, Planes of Consciousness, Death and Dying, Service and Compassion, Psychedelics, Social Awareness, and Liberation. “This book is a kind of spiritual brandy, a distillation of the lectures I’ve given over the course of the past decade or so. These quotes are the little “aha!” moments, the cameos that have been served up out of our collective consciousness from time to time that seem to summarize something about our human journey. I think of this book as something you might have next to the coffeepot to pick up in the morning, or as something you might tuck into your backpack to pull out during your bus ride to work, in order to reframe the way you look at your day.” —Ram Dass

After a major stroke, Ram Dass returns with a vibrant joy and deepened wisdom, resulting from a profound encounter with Silence. In this video, he joins with singer Krishna Das for a very special presentation. This remarkable event is like a circle: Ram Dass speaks about his stroke as an act of grace, and about the profound gift of silence he has been given, while the melodious chanting of Krishna Das carries the words home to the heart. This is an inspiring video, which demonstrates that the silence of Spirit and the eternal chant of India both emanate from the same source.

«Envejecer no es fácil para la mayoría de nosotros. Tampoco lo es vivir, ni morir. Luchamos contra lo inevitable y todos sufrimos por ello. Hemos estado tratando de hallar otra manera de ver el proceso de nacer, envejecer, cambiar y morir, alguna perspectiva que nos permita afrontar lo que percibimos como grandes obstáculos... Entender que tenemos algo que somos algo inmutable, bello, completamente consciente y que continúa pase lo que pase, ayuda mucho.»

More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a way no one had before. Leaving his teaching job at Harvard, Ram Dass embodied the role of spiritual seeker, showing others how to find peace within themselves in one of the greatest spiritual classics of the twentieth century, the two-million-copy bestseller Be Here Now. As many of that generation enter the autumn of their years, the big questions of peace and of purpose have returned demanding answers. And once again, Ram Dass blazes a new trail, inviting all to join him on the next stage of the journey.