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Ram Dass
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American spiritual teacher, author and psychologist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 58
Top works
- Aging and the Awakening Potential of Change
- Be Here Now
- Being Free Together
- Birth of a psychedelic culture
- Compassion in Action
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Film & TV
Acting · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, academic and clinical psychologist, and author. His books include the 1971 Be Here Now. He founded the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation.
Known for
- Music for Mushrooms — Self2024
- Surviving You, Always — Self (voice)2021
- Sunseed: The Journey2020
- Becoming Nobody — Self2019
- The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling — Self2018
- Ram Dass, Going Home — Himself2017
- Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties2017
- Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary — Self2016
- The Reality of Truth — Self2016
- The Transcendental Object at the End of Time2014
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1931
- Active to
- 2019
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24,589
- Total plays
- 203,359
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The name Ram Dass applies to two people. 1. Dr. Richard Alpert (born April 6, 1931), also known as Baba Ram Dass, a contemporary spiritual teacher best known for writing the 1971 bestseller Be Here Now. 2. Ram Dass (Khalsa), (born July 28, 1987), a classically-trained musician, composer, and producer from Berkeley, CA. He is best known for his appearance on Snatam Kaur's album, Live in Concert, and his own album, The Alchemist's Prayer. 1. His spiritual journey began at Harvard University <
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,812x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,765x
- Design Science in Information Systems Research1
· 2004 · cited 8,315x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,746x
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Quotes
- “I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people… To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.”
- “Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.”
- “There are three stages in this journey that I have been on. The first. the social science stage; the second, the psychedelic stage; and the third, the yogi stage.”
- “Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology [at Stanford and Harvard], and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves were not highly evolved beings. Their own lives were not fulfilled.”
- “Every time I went to a family gathering, I was the boy who made it. I was a Professor at Harvard and everybody stood around in awe and listened to my every word, and all I felt was that horror that I knew inside that I didn't know. Of course, it was all such beautiful, gentle horror, because there was so much reward involved.”
- “I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard Alpert , ( 1931-04-06 ) April 6, 1931, Boston , Massachusetts. U.S.
- Died
- December 22, 2019 (2019-12-22) (aged 88), Maui , Hawaii, U.S.
- Alma mater
- Tufts University ( BA ) Wesleyan University ( MA ) Stanford University ( PhD )
- Occupations
- Spiritual teacher in the lineage of Neem Karoli Baba , writer
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.ramdass.org
- Image
- Ram Dass.jpg
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- Ram Dass
- date of birth
- 1931-04-06
- date of death
- 2019-12-22
- nickname
- Baba Ram Dass
- birth name
- Richard Alpert
- social media followers
- 342000
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Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931 – December 22, 2019), also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book Be Here Now, which has been described by multiple reviewers as "seminal", helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West. He authored or co-authored twelve more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including Grist for the Mill (1977), How Can I Help? (1985), and Polishing the Mirror (2013).
Ram Dass was personally and professionally associated with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s. Then known as Richard Alpert, he conducted research with Leary on the therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs. In addition, Alpert assisted Harvard Divinity School graduate student Walter Pahnke in his 1962 "Good Friday Experiment" with theology students, the first controlled, double-blind study of drugs and the mystical experience. While not illegal at the time, their research was controversial and led to Leary's and Alpert's dismissal from Harvard in 1963.