Being Ram Dass by Richard Alpert

Being Ram Dass by Richard AlpertSet against a backdrop of nine decades of sweeping cultural change, Being Ram Dass shares this modern day luminary's journey from psychologist to renegade Harvard psychedelics researcher to beloved spiritual icon. 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,

His thirty-five years of rigorous

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the grandson of a senator

was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North

deference to authority

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sensationalized cases of sexual violence provoke a collective reaction and many stories go unheard

As both historical document and political statement

She laughs too loudly

and reveals the deep-seated economic and social inequalities at their heart - it will challenge

Whether it is the loss of a parent to death or divorce

he was met with suspicion and ridicule