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| Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) was
born in 1931. Ram Dass studied psychology, specializing in human
motivation and personality development. He received an M.A. from Wesleyan
and a Ph.D. from Stanford. He then served on the psychology faculties at
Stanford and the University of California, and from 1958 to 1963 taught and
researched in the Department of Social Relations and the Graduate School of
Education at Harvard University. During this period he co-authored (with
Sears and Rau) the book Identification and Child Rearing, published by
Stanford University Press.
In 1961, while at Harvard, Ram Dass'
explorations of human consciousness led him, in collaboration with |
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Timothy
Leary, Ralph Metzner, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, and others, to pursue
intensive research with psilocybin, LSD-25, and other psychedelic chemicals.
Out of this research came two books: The Psychedelic Experience (co-authored
by Leary and Metzner, and based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, published
by University Books); and LSD (with Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller,
published by New American Library). Because of the controversial nature of
this research, Ram Dass was dismissed from Harvard in 1963.
Ram Dass continued his research
under the auspices of a private foundation until 1967. In that year he
traveled to India, where he met his Guru |
(spiritual teacher), Neem Karoli
Baba. Ram Dass studied yoga and meditation, and received the name
Ram Dass, which means "servant of God." Since 1968, he has pursued a
variety of spiritual practices, including guru kripa; devotional yoga
focused on the Hindu spiritual figure Hanuman; meditation in the Theravadin,
Mahayana Tibetan, and Zen Buddhist schools; karma yoga; and Sufi and Jewish
studies.
Ram Dass books include "Journey of
Awakening" and "Be Here Now". For more information on Ram
Dass and Ram Dass books visit
www.ramdasstapes.org.
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