Being Ram Dass

“Being Ram Dass” is the intimate spiritual memoir of Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert), tracing his journey from a Harvard psychologist experimenting with psychedelics to a beloved spiritual teacher devoted to love and service. Set against nearly nine decades of cultural change, it explores his struggles with ego, identity, sexuality, fame, and illness, as well as the profound shift that came after meeting his guru Neem Karoli Baba in India. The book moves through his pioneering psychedelic research, the birth of “Be Here Now,” his years of teaching and social service, and his later life after a debilitating stroke, reflecting on aging, dying, and living as “loving awareness.” Ideal for readers seeking spiritual autobiographies, consciousness journeys, and first‑person accounts of the 1960s counterculture through to modern mindfulness, it serves as both life story and guide to inner transformation.