Spiritual teacher and former Harvard professor Ram Dass has passed away, aged 88.
Dass’ foundation, Love Serve Remember, announced late Sunday that the author and spiritual leader died peacefully at his home earlier in the day. No cause of death was given.
Ram Dass, best known for the 1971 bestseller "Be Here Now," smiles during an interview at his San Anselmo, Calif., home. Picture: AP/Susan Ragan“I want to share with you the parts of the internal journey that never get written up in the mass media,” he wrote. “I’m not interested in what you read in the Saturday Evening Post about LSD. This is the story of what goes on inside a human being who is undergoing all these experiences.
LSD guru Dr.Timothy Leary poses for a portrait at his home in Beverly Hills in California. Picture AP/MarkJTerrill“I peered into the semi-darkness and recognised none other than myself in cap and gown and hood,” he wrote. “It was as if that part of me, which was a Harvard professor, had separated or dissociated itself from me.” The experiments got him and Leary kicked out of Harvard in 1963. “It was a little too sensational,” Ram Dass said in 1998. “We were the starters of it.
There, his guru introduced him to yoga, meditation, Buddhism and Sufism, and gave him the name Ram Dass, Hindi for “servant of God.” Ram Dass wrote “Be Here Now” when he returned to the United States. Around the same time, he told The New York Times that he had turned away from drugs, saying: “I don’t want to break the law, since that leads to fear and paranoia.
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