Ram Dass

[Zigzag Idiot]

 Harvard Professor of Psychology, Richard Alpert, peer and friend of fellow Professor Timothy Leary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary,  later to become initiated into Hinduism as Ram Dass. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Dass

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book)

 

Great talk in which he shares in his usual rich way. I had forgotten that he taught at Chogham Trunpa's Naropa University in Colorado. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chögyam_Trungpa

 

He starts out deep in this talk and on into his lecture and he reads some biographical events out of his Book; Be Here Now.

He relates some personal stories with some  humorous  events sprinkled through out. One of which was his interaction with Bhagavan Das https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavan_Das_(yogi) and his giving Lsd to his Guru https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neem_Karoli_Baba

[outlandish]

Wow can't believe we didn't have a thread for Ram Dass already. Nice one!

[Grateful Dead]

 

[Recursoinominado]

I love this guy! Cried a bit when he died 

[Jonty]

This is a beautiful short documentary about the latter stages of his life. Its on Netflix here in the UK. I'm sure it's the case in the US too. 

Edited October 23, 2020 by Jonty

[DIDego]

Ram Dass was a cool dude!

He gave many important perspectives and relative rare contribution to mankind from his radical choices in life and all recordings, during a sensitive time and big shift into modern society. 

 

Edited October 24, 2020 by DIDego

[Vytas]

His friend Raghu Markus has a podcast dedicated to spreading Ram Dass wisdom. In the podcast for the first 10 minutes he gives his comments on the specific topic followed by ram dass lecture or talk. There are 170 episodes as for today. Great source of insights into spirituality

https://open.spotify.com/show/3Dz4DL2ZMvnNQUnDSXqSdm?si=Vifi66imSiWYDPwEwrosMg

[Jacko]

@Vytas  I've been listening to this. Its been blowing my mind. Highly reccomend!

[eggopm3]

I listened to some of his talks on a trip once, it was stunning. Deep spiritual power in that man.

[Mu_]

Ram Dass for me is a rare example of mind+heart, plus he's a great story teller with a lot of honesty about his capacity as a teacher and shortcomings.

[Zigzag Idiot]

On 10/26/2020 at 11:20 PM, Mu_ said:

Ram Dass for me is a rare example of mind+heart, plus he's a great story teller with a lot of honesty about his capacity as a teacher and shortcomings.

That describes him very much in giving this talk.

Tonight being the first time I've heard it.

 

Found this one here in my browser. Thought I posted it previously but I guess not.

If anyone runs across Ram Dass telling the joke about Nussruddin identifying himself at the bank, I would appreciate a time mark and also which lecture it is in. I lost track and would like to hear again and how he tells it. 

[Zigzag Idiot]

Another good one from Ram Dass and it’s under 40 minutes. He speaks about special relationships in the same way that ACIM does.plus much more.

[BEWISE]

check out becoming nobody on GAIA