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Ram Dass
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American spiritual teacher, author and psychologist
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- 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
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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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
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Family name
- Alpert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Place of death
- Maui
- Occupation
- spiritual teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Official website
- www.ramdass.org
- Image
- Ram Dass.jpg
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- Commons category
- 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
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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