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Ram Dass Here And Now

Ram Dass Here And Now

By: Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember
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Ram Dass shares his heart-centered wisdom in each episode featuring excerpted lectures given throughout the last 40 years, with an introduction from Raghu Markus of Ram Dass' Love Serve Remember Foundation.


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  • Ep. 278 – Innocence of Consciousness

    Ep. 278 – Innocence of Consciousness
    Jun 2 2025
    In this interview from 1977, Ram Dass shares his views on psychedelics and how they can provide a free slate to experience the innocence of consciousness once again. Join the most important psychedelic gathering of the year......bridging science, spirit & society at Psychedelic Science 2025: THE INTEGRATION, hosted by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Be part of the movement that will shape the next era of mental health, medicine, and consciousness.Featuring speakers like Paul Stamets, United States Representative Tim Ryan, UCSF Neuroscience & Psychopharmacology Researcher Robin Carhartt-Harris, Rick Doblin, founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Richard Schwartz, Pilar Guzman, CEO/Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association Marketa M. Wills - M.D., M.B.A., FAPA, comedian Reggie Watts, musicians TYCHO & Jim James, and many more!Listeners get 15% off tickets to the 5-day event with our promo code LSRF15 at PsychedelicScience.orgThis episode of Here and Now is from an interview with Ram Dass conducted by New Dimensions Radio in 1977, shortly after Ram Dass participated in a conference called “LSD – A Generation Later.” The interview begins with Ram Dass discussing the happenings at the conference and his interactions with other psychedelic luminaries, including Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Albert Hofmann. Ram Dass explores the culture surrounding LSD in 1977, and how he has no desire to legislate how other people live their lives. He shares his guru’s instructions for using the “yogi medicine” and talks about whether or not it’s important to have a guide for psychedelic experiences.Finally, Ram Dass cautions that “getting high and seeing” is only one part of the process of change, and there are inner processes necessary to bring about change in life. He discusses the cultural evolution brought about by psychedelics and the shifts in consciousness he sees taking place. The Ram Dass community gathers regularly to engage in meaningful discussions about the podcast. We invite you to join us and share your curiosities, insights, and wisdom. Sign up for the General Fellowship to receive event invitations directly in your inbox.Sponsors of this Episode:This show is sponsored by Magic Mind, a matcha-based energy shot infused with nootropics and adaptogens designed to crush procrastination, brain fog, & fatigue. Check out their new Maxx & Free energy shots and get 60% off your subscription with our code RAMDASS60 at magicmind.com/ramdassmfRam Dass Here & Now is also brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ramdass and get on your way to being your best self.Reunion is offering $250 off any stay to the Love, Serve, Remember community. Simply use the code BeHere250 when booking. Disconnect from the world so you can reconnect with yourself at Reunion. Hotel | www.reunionhotelandwellness.com Retreats | www.reunionexperience.org“If you have a guide, you’re calm, and you really want to explore your inner being, I still see LSD as an incredible vehicle for overriding your habitual response patterns, your habits of thought, and giving you a free slate to experience your innocence of consciousness once again.” – Ram DassSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    44 mins
  • Ep. 277 – Across the Decades: Ram Dass on Service and Social Action

    Ep. 277 – Across the Decades: Ram Dass on Service and Social Action
    May 21 2025
    Speaking across the decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s, Ram Dass shares his insights into responding to suffering, the meaning of service, and the confluence of social action and spiritual work.The Ram Dass community gathers regularly to engage in meaningful discussions about the podcast. We invite you to join us and share your curiosities, insights, and wisdom. Sign up for the General Fellowship to receive event invitations directly in your inbox.This episode of Here and Now is a compilation of Ram Dass talking about service and social action across the decades.We begin in 1969, during a time of significant cultural change. A time where the people of the United States found themselves in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war protests, and the rise of Women’s Liberation. Ram Dass explores the concept of social responsibility and talks about why protesting should come from a place not of anger, but of love.Next, we move to 1983. The media landscape has transformed in the wake of the Iran hostage crisis, political paradigms shift as Ronald Reagan makes his way to power, and communities all over the world begin to feel the impact of the growing AIDS epidemic. Ram Dass talks about learning to trust one’s intuitive inner voice when it comes to responding to suffering, and how we can bring together social action and spiritual work.Two years later, it is 1985 and the world has rapidly evolved. The Soviet Union has become a global threat. The nightly news shows the Apartheid regime in South Africa violently cracking down on Civil Rights activists, while the Reagan administration stands by, focused instead on rolling back civil liberties at home in the United States. Ram Dass offers perspective on navigating these challenges with an open heart. He explores the difference between dharma and seva, and why service requires us to embrace paradox in our lives.It is 1993, technology is transforming the world and how we engage with it. Ram Dass explores how being too attached to the fruits of our actions can be detrimental to social action work, leading activists to burn out quickly.We end our journey across the decades in 2018, in the middle of the first Trump administration in America. Wars rage on, and civil liberty is at risk across the globe. How do we oppose this skillfully and with an open heart? Ram Dass talks about how karma yoga is the key to finding the right balance between working on yourself and taking action for the benefit of others. Sponsors of this Episode:Ram Dass Here & Now is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ramdass and get on your way to being your best self.This show is also sponsored by Magic Mind, a matcha-based energy shot infused with nootropics and adaptogens designed to crush procrastination, brain fog, & fatigue. You have a limited offer you can use now, that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one-time purchases with the code RAMDASS at www.magicmind.com/ramdass.Reunion is offering $250 off any stay to the Love, Serve, Remember community. Simply use the code “BeHere250” when booking. Disconnect from the world so you can reconnect with yourself at Reunion. Hotel | www.reunionhotelandwellness.com Retreats | www.reunionexperience.org“So it really requires, it seems to me, staying open from moment to moment when you’re doing social action. And if you’re too obsessed with the goal, you lose it. If you’re too obsessed with the goal, since in much action you don’t get what you want, you’ll burn out much sooner. And so, the injunction of the Bhagavad Gita, which says be not identified with being the actor, be not attached to the fruits of the action, and yet, the action happens.” – Ram DassSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Ep. 276 – Approaching the Mystery

    Ep. 276 – Approaching the Mystery
    May 5 2025

    In this exploration of the fear of suffering as we get older, Ram Dass talks about approaching the mystery of aging and death in the same adventurous manner as his friend Timothy Leary.

    For more on the relationship between Ram Dass and Timothy Leary, please check out Dying to Know, a book that details their epic friendship and Timothy’s process of dying.

    The Ram Dass community gathers regularly to engage in meaningful discussions about the podcast. We invite you to join us and share your curiosities, insights, and wisdom. Sign up for the General Fellowship to receive event invitations directly in your inbox.

    This talk from June 1996 is part of an aging study group Ram Dass conducted to help guide his book on aging, Still Here.

    • Fear of future suffering is a major issue for all us, but especially when it comes to aging. Ram Dass explores how we tend to respond to that fear with massive denial, and how we can work on coming to terms with those fears through a shift in perspective.
    • Ram Dass talks about how his work with people who are severely ill or in the process of dying has helped prepare him for his own death. He talks about the fear of losing one’s analytic, linear mind, which is so valued in this culture, and how we can open ourselves up to the value of non-linear thinking.
    • Finally, Ram Dass details the time he spent with his old friend Timothy Leary as he approached his death. For Timothy, death was another glorious adventure. Ram Dass wonders if we shouldn’t all add a touch of the “Leary Method” as a way to approach the mystery of aging and dying.

    Sponsors of this Episode:

    Ram Dass Here & Now is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ramdass and get on your way to being your best self.

    This show is also sponsored by Magic Mind, a matcha-based energy shot infused with nootropics and adaptogens designed to crush procrastination, brain fog, & fatigue. You have a limited offer you can use now, that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one-time purchases with the code RAMDASS at www.magicmind.com/ramdass.


    Reunion is offering $250 off any stay to the Love, Serve, Remember community. Simply use the code “BeHere250” when booking. Disconnect from the world so you can reconnect with yourself at Reunion. Hotel | www.reunionhotelandwellness.com Retreats | www.reunionexperience.org

    “What Timothy added was the fun of it, the adventure as you approach the mystery. When you’re approaching a mystery, what space do you want to be in in your head? Getting free of guilt? I mean, is that the one you want? Which one do you want? Which one opens to the possibilities? And Timothy was an adventurer, I mean, as I can tell you from being in the backwash for years. Timothy took me fighting and screaming into adventure. He opened up the whole image of dying into the possibility that it was a celebratory, adventurous, exciting part of life.” – Ram Dass

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    45 mins
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I am so unbelievably thankful to be given the opportunity to listen Ram Dass’s wise words. Definitely give this podcast to listen.

So grateful for this podcast.

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Ram Dass’s words make the most sense to me out of any other spiritual teacher I have listened to or read.

My favorite spiritual teacher

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Meditative and educational, not to mention the peace it gives me when needed. I do recommend this podcast.

A wonderful comfort

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Ram Dass seems to have no ego. No pretensions. His intelligence and wisdom are boundless. We are blessed to have access to these gifts.

Ram Dass’s life and knowledge is a gift to everyone who will listen.

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It’s taken me 45 years to come to Ram Dass’ teachings (when the student is ready…)

And I’m blown away by the abundance of access to his teachings (240+ episodes and counting).

I’ve been listening to 1-2 everyday and I feel my consciousness deepening - saying “thank you” with each listen.

Gratitude to those making Ram Dass’ teachings available so freely.

Treasure Trove of Ram Dass Wisdom

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At 45 I did LSD for the first time- The experience left me so altered Its hard to integrate and communicate all that was- It's like a flower blooming- layers started to fall away, unfold into a dynamic kaleidoscope of brilliant colors and contrasting hues of darkness; this blooming showed me I am not the many petals of the flower-nor am I the flower. All my tragic life experiences created certain petals. All my monumental life experiences created other petals. I examined each petal and only saw perfection and beauty. Each one perfectly whirled around the center of the flower making it what it is. Opened fully the flower almost radiates with its own light! It crowns the garden entry and jewels the green prairies with explosions of color. It's ephemeral nature is part of the beauty! Slowly it's glow fades, petals wilt- drying, turning brown and softy floating to the ground. I am that flower but I'm not that flower- for I'm watching the flowers beginning and end! I saw life very differently as each traumatic and beautiful experience in my past was revealed to me as a necessary piece to a puzzle I'm still working on. It didn't serve me to identify with anything-yet not being able to identify with something was terrifying- Similar to drowning, in terror you grasp for anything to cling to- I was not able to surrender! And I wasn't able to return to the life I had before. I gathered up what was left of who I thought I was and woke up from that LSD experience profoundly altered! I so struggled after that dangling between thinking I was insane vs feeling extreme gratitude for every sunrise. My tiny intellect unable to process it all. I desperately Googled for answers or at least another person in this world that felt this way. I felt at one and so alone all at once. The Universe knew what I needed, because that Google search led me to Ram Dass Be Here Now and this podcast!!
Ram helped integrate this insanity (aka spiritual awakening)into my current worldly constructs. Without a solid identity a stark spiritual awakening can lead to depression or worse! I may have fallen victim to that had you all not felt lead to republish these works! It's NO ACCIDENT you were led to do this! It's saved at least one human body and my spirit is journeying in the only direction it was meant to go. 🙏I've never been so hungry to learn and do more!

Life saving!!!! These saved my life and sanity!

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Ram Dass explores EVERY plane of consciousness that comes into play with the process of dying. These are essential words of wisdom to explore and contemplate.

A must listen

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I really loved this. I plan to listen again and take notes. this information has the power to be very transformative if practiced and revisited.

Another great talk from Ram Dass

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