![]() ![]() ![]() “We are all just walking each other home. In 2013, he published a memoir and summing up of his spiritual teachings, Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart. Having given away nearly $1 million in royalties from the sales of his fifteen books to non-profit organizations - especially the Seva Foundation, an international health organization that he co-founded and which has healed some 3.5 million people of cataract blindness - he now lives in Hawaii, supported by a foundation established by followers and friends. ![]() In the early 1990s Ram Dass began to study Judaism for the first time since his bar mitsve (he was close friends with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the founder of Jewish Renewal), and also came out as bisexual. The “Maharajii” gave Ram Dass his name (“servant of God”), and Ram Dass communed frequently with him until his death in 1973. The origin of Ram Dass’s Be Here Now is explored in this excerpt from The Divine Reality of Sri Baba Neeb Karori Ji Maharaj. In 1967, he traveled to India and met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba at a mountain ashram. ![]() Are you going to be here or not (Ram Dass). Alpert partnered with Timothy Leary in conducting experiments with LSD at Harvard University, where both were faculty members they were both expelled in 1963. Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. Spiritual explorer and writer Ram Dass, whose 1971 book, Be Here Now, introduced many, many baby boomers to meditation, mindfulness, and Eastern spirituality, was born Richard Alpert in Newton, Massachusetts on this date in 1931. ![]()
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