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Relationship, Community, and the Spiritual Quest            Price $30.00
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 RAM DASS: EVOLVING WISDOM                 This collector’s series encompasses some of Ram Dass’ deepest teachings over the past four decades. With his characteristic blend of stories, humor, and honesty, Ram Dass shares with us the unfolding of his own spiritual journey – and ours.

 

* Available on CD.

What the Bleep? $10  The film "What the Bleep Do We Know Anyway?" has become a cultural phenomenon, bringing to life the dramatic convergence of modern science and the new consciousness.  Amit Goswami – a physics professor at the University of Oregon and a scholar-in-residence at the Institute of Noetic Sciences – is one of the scientists featured in the film.  Twenty-five years ago – a bit ahead of the curve! – Ram Dass and Dr. Goswami dialoged together about these very same topics.  We're re-releasing that historic cassette this month.  It's an extraordinary conversation – you won't want to miss it.  * Available on Tape.
   
The Yogas of the Bhagavad Gita $150   The famous Naropa lecture series on which Paths to God was based is now available in re-mastered, re-edited CD format.  This remarkable series features all of Ram Dass' lectures on the teachings of the Gita and the way they can be brought alive in our own spiritual journey.

* Available on CD.

Heart-Mind Play $65 From two extraordinary 1994 & 1995 weekend workshops in San Rafael, California, we have selected these six programs:

* Available on CD.

 

 

             The Essential Ram Dass       The Essential Ram  Dass $35-$40

This album brings together four favorite Ram Dass tapes:
●   Being Free Together
●  The Path of the Heart
●   A Gathering of Souls
                      ●  The Seasons of Our Lives

* Available on CD. * Available on Tape.

 

 

Healing Our Emotions, Fear, Anger and  Love  $25

How do we deal with all our emotional baggage in the context of a spiritual journey? In these recordings, Ram Dass' responds to questions about things like giving up anger, confronting our dark side, forgiveness, and the dance between love and fear.

 * Available on Tape.

 
Workshops
The Listening Heart * Available on Tape. The Heart of the Matter * Available on Tape.
This series, recorded during Ram Dass' 1989 summer retreats, has been one of the Tape Library's most popular offerings. Each tape is focused on Ram Dass' replies to. questions The retreat at Breitenbush July 2000 opened a very deep heart-space. Every afternoon there were talks and stories, questions and answers ... 
Heart - Mind - * PLAY * Available on Tape. The Yogas of the Bhagavad Gita * Available on Tape.
The world of dualism is only one of the planes on which our consciousness exists. At the 1994 Marin workshop, Ram Dass spoke about the archetypal,........... This remarkable collection of tapes by Ram Dass was recorded at a workshop at the opening of Naropa Institute in the summer of 1974.
In the Company of Friends* Available on Tape.  
The 1999 retreat at Omega Institute was a rich smorgasbord of spiritual traditions, and offered an unusual opportunity to see Ram Dass' .....  
Spirituality
Ego and Soul * Available on Tape. Devotion and the Guru * Available on Tape.
A major misconception about spiritual practices is that they're supposed to get rid of the ego. Not so, Ram Dass says - the ego is our software for functioning on this plane;......
In this lecture at Naropa Institute, Ram Dass gave a clear articulation of the path of Bhakti Yoga - the yoga of devotion.
Do-er's Prison * Available on Tape. The Edge of the Mystery * Available on Tape.
What is the process of aging all about? Perhaps it offers us an opportunity to re-balance what we've lost by being so buzy living out our outer journeys. "Our spiritual journey," Ram Dass says, "is one of learning to balance our humanity and our divinity." Caught in a cultural conspiracy to define ourselves only as separate entities, ....
Open to the Infinite * Available on Tape. The Abode of the Message * Available on Tape.
"Letting go of your individuality is meeting the Infinite," Ram Dass said. He talked about the practice of guru kripa, and about devotion as a way to approach the infinite through the doorway of the heart. There is a perfection in our pridicament," Ram Dass says - In the way we chose our life circumstances to fulfill the Soul's curriculum.
The Book of Grace * Available on Tape. The Miracle of Consciousness * Available on Tape.
In a program he gave just a few days before his stroke, Ram Dass talked about reawakening to the spiritual dimensions of our lives. In this wide ranging lecture, Ram Dass explores where "the gift of expanding consciousness" is taking us in terms of the way we lead our lives.
The Wheel of Rebirth * Available on Tape. Weaving the Tapestry of Our Dreams * Available on Tape.
"As the blossom falls away when the fruit grow," the old self gradually vanishes. The cycles of reincarnation bring us back again. Who you are was never born and will never die. Can you imagine really knowing that? What a difference it would make!
To Speak about God * Available on Tape. If I Were to Teach the Advanced Course    * Available on CD. * Available on Tape.

Maharajji once told Ram Dass...
"You must speak only about God."

In the years since, RamI Dass tells us, he has been trying to find the many different ways of fulfilling those instructions.

 

 Responding to a comment by one of the participants at a 1993 "Wisdom Heart" retreat, Ram Dass gave this lecture entitled, "If I were to Teach the Advanced Course."

 
General Lectures
   
The Essential Ram Dass   * Available on Tape.    * Available on CD. The Path Of Awakening        * Available on Tape.         
 This album brings together four favorite Ram Dass tapes:
Being Free Together ... Since you and I spend so much time on relationships, wouldn't it be nice to turn them into a yoga for getting free? 		 In a day-long program sponsored by Interface Foundation, Ram Dass talked about our aspirations to awaken, and about our methods for re-experiencing the awareness of our unity.
Personality & Emotions * Available on Tape.    Riding the Waves of Change * Available on Tape.   
How do we deal with all our emotional baggage in the context of a spiritual journey? Change can seem frightening, or ripe with opportunity.
Ram Dass on Golf: New Dimensions In Learning  * Available on Tape. Heavy Grace * Available on Tape.              
In a lecture to the Shivas Irons Society, Ram Dass talks about his experiences with golf as a spiritual practice for cultivating the Witness and coming into the present moment. This is the first tape we offered of a talk given by Ram Dass after his stroke.
The World of Soul * Available on Tape.       Karma Yoga and Compassion * Available on Tape.  
The soul enters the ego "like it's taking a ride at an amusement park," Ram Dass says. But then the enticements of the incarnation trap the soul in ego, and we forget the purpose of the trip.  Ram Dass responds to questions about the way we can manifest right livelihood in our lives, and "use our outer work as inner work."
The Book Of Grace * Available on Tape.       The Generosity of the Heart  * Available on Tape.  
In a program he gave just a few days before his stroke, Ram Dass talked about reawakening to the spiritual dimensions of our lives. There's our analytical mind... and then there's our intuitive heart. The mind is the instrument of our separateness, and the heart is the experience of our oneness - and Ram Dass reminds us that peace comes from balancing these two parts of our being.
Helping Ourselves Heal Others  * Available on Tape.       The Presence of God * Available on Tape.   
At a conference on Integrating Ancient Healing and Modern Medicine, Ram Dass addressed an audience of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals. Ram Dass says that in the '60's, mushrooms and Maharajji gave him the experience of multiple planes of awareness.
Weaving the Tapestry of Our Dreams   * Available on Tape.        Models of the Mind * Available on Tape.  
Who you are was never born and will never die.
Can you imagine really knowing that?
What a difference it would make!		 The East and the West developed very different models of the nature of human consciousness.
Awareness, Perspective and Change * Available on Tape.     In the Cauldron of Transformation * Available on Tape.    
Do we really want our lives to be transformed?  Transformation is hard -- it involves change, and change is unpredictable. Ram Dass reflects about the AIDS epidemic and the way it draws us to the very edge of the mystery of life and death.
Aging Consciously
 Conscious Aging * Available on Tape. The Dance of Age * Available on Tape.
Ram Dass speaks of aging as an invitation to savor life's experiences more deeply, to "turn them 'round in the light" and appreciate their profound beauty and mystery.

 

 "A sage is one who has opened the gifts of love and death," Ram Dass says. Because aging is "the whitewater rapids of consciousness," we need to balance our doing with quietness if we're going to hear what the age-stage is all about.
Changeless Aging * Available on Tape. Invite Not The Future * Available on Tape.
Is aging a loss? Or is it an opportunity to explore a new way of being, with ourselves and the world? There is a "curriculum of aging" that doesn't treat it as either an error or a problem. At a study group exploring issues of aging, Ram Dass talked about our need to deal with our fear of the future -- particularly our fear of death.
Pathways to Awakening * Available on Tape. The Seasons of Our Lives * Available on CD. * Available on Tape.
For the second year, Ram Dass and Krishna Das presented an evening at the Inner Directions Conference. Krishna Das led the heart-opening Mahamantra chant and Jai Bhagawan. Ram Dass talked about facing our fears of aging and dying, and said, .... This lecture is a gentle, reflective statement about the nature of living and dying which places aging and death into the context of nature's flow of the seasons.
Aging & the Awakening Potential of Change * Available on CD. * Available on Tape.     
We love novelty. We're fascinated by that which changes. But when the changes start happening to who we think we are -  
   
Spiritual Practices
   
Dying Into Life * Available on Tape. Behind The Changing * Available on Tape.
In 1979, Ram Dass was part of a two week long retreat on death and dying held in Yucca Valley, California. Near the end of the retreat, Ram Dass gave this lecture about the unfolding of the spiritual journey. How do you meet someone behind the changing?"  Change. The life of an individual, of a society, of a planet is a story of constant change. "But what if the changes get to be too great?" Ram Dass asks.
The Dance of Forms * Available on Tape.  
Ram Dass examines his spiritual path from a particularly philosphical perspective, contrasting the early renunciate path of avoiding life with the more Tantric approach of moving toward our stuck places and bringing awareness to them.  
 
1992 OMEGA RETREAT
● The Path of the Heart * Available on CD. * Available on Tape. ● Bringing It Back Home * Available on Tape.
For most of us, love seems a particularly joyful path to God, one that allows us to bring the sweetness of the human heart into the spiritual journey.

 

 As the retreat drew to a close and participants prepared to return to their daily lives, Ram Dass reflected with them about the process through which spiritual practice allow us to dance in life without becoming entrapped by it.
● Making Life Sacred * Available on Tape. ● Inner Work/Outer World * Available on Tape.
At first, we use such things as spiritual retreats to protect our practices. But as we go along, our yearning to be done with it leads us to transform more and more of our experiences into opportunities for spiritual practice. This program is compiled from questions about spiritual practice and daily life:
-Can we have a direct experience of God's presence?      
Metaphysics
A Gathering of Souls * Available on Tape. If I Were To Teach The  Advanced Course * Available on Tape.
"We're a party of souls. We're meeting through our psyches and our personalities but behind them, we're laughing." Responding to a comment by one of the participants at a 1993 "Wisdom Heart" retreat, Ram Dass gave this lecture entitled, "If I were to Teach the Advanced Course."
The Conspiracy of Consciousness  * Available on Tape.  
If we adopt the Soul's perspective on our incarnation, we start to see our lives as an inner dialog between Ego, Soul, and Awareness.  
Tools
   
Malas and Mantras Mala and Mantra Gift Set
   
Social Action
Embodying Spirit * Available on CD. * Available on Tape.   Rest In The Timeless * Available on Tape.
In his keynote address to the 1993 Eupsychia Conference, Ram Dass outlined the currents of consciousness which have passed through our culture during the past three decades:

 

 

 This lecture is a reflective statement of the predicament our technology has created. It was given as the keynote address at the International Transpersonal Association's conference in Czechoslovakia during the summer of '92, and it reflects the complex political and social forces at play in that nation, and in our own nation as well (summer of '92).
   
Ramayana
The RAMAYANA....* Available on Tape.
as retold by William Buck and read by Ram Dass
Suffering
On Suffering * Available on Tape.
Suffering only happens to who we think we are; as we let go of our attachments, suffering becomes a path to awakening consciousness.
Community
Creating Conscious Community * Available on Tape.
This day-long workshop offered a rich tapestry of teaching and practice. Ram Dass gave two lectures - one on opening the heart, another on the unreality of self. Jai led a gentle heart breath meditation: Many Doorways, One Breath.
Relationships
The Yoga of Relationship * Available on Tape. Being Free Together * Available on Tape.
Ram Dass replies to questions about relationships in all their dimensions, and about strategies for using relationships as part of our spiritual journey. Since you and I spend so much time on relationships, Ram Dass says, wouldn't it be nice if we could turn them into a yoga for getting free?
Riding the Waves of Change * Available on Tape. The Generosity of the Heart * Available on Tape.
As we balance "breaking human heart" with "peaceful conscious heart," we merge into a love that embraces the perfection of both, and allows us to face with peace and even with joy whatever changes may come. The mind is the instrument of our separateness, and the heart is the experience of our oneness - and Ram Dass reminds us that peace comes from balancing these two parts of our being.
Preparing for the Possibility * Available on Tape.  
n what he calls "a journey into balance," Ram Dass speaks of the influence of relationships on our spiritual path, and encourages us to find the equilibrium between separateness and unity.  
   
Death And Dying
   
Dark Mysteries  * Available on Tape. Dying Into Life * Available on Tape.
Suffering and death ... these are the experiences that bring us to the edge of our understanding, and test the limits of our faith.

 

 In 1979, Ram Dass was part of a two week long retreat on death and dying held in Yucca Valley, California. Near the end of the retreat, Ram Dass gave this lecture about the unfolding of the spiritual journey.
Varanasi West * Available on Tape. Being with Dying * Available on Tape.
Varanasi, or Banares, is India's city of dying; people go there to die, in order to make their dying a spiritual act, and turn them toward what lies ahead. Ram Dass talks about the ethical dimensions of work with the terminally ill, and about issues like the use of pain-relieving drugs and assisted suicide.
Facing Death * Available on CD. * Available on Tape. Love is the Doorway * Available on Tape.
"Part of our agenda as people of any age is to find some way of being with the idea of death," Ram Dass says. At the Center for Living in san Francisco, Ram Dass addressed a group of people confronting life threatening conditions.
Valuing Death * Available on Tape. Three Phases of Dying * Available on Tape.
In his talk to the medical staff of the Palliative Care Unit at Sloan-Kettering, Ram Dass spoke of his views of death, and the way they have evolved with his spiritual ripening. Ram Dass and Lama Gelek Rinpoche explore contrasting Western and Tibetan views of death and after-death experiences.
Why Suffering * Available on CD. * Available on Tape. Perspectives on Death * Available on Tape.
Did God make a mistake? Is suffering an error? In this powerful lecture, Ram Dass looks a suffering as part of our curriculum for becoming full human beings. On opening to pain, and overcoming our anxiety about death. Ram Dass' address to the staff of the Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York.
Death is not an Outrage * Available on Tape.  
"What dies is not what is true." Speaking to the National Hospice Organization, Ram Dass considers the spiritual dimensions of dying, and the way we can use our work with the terminally ill as a process of spiritual growth.  
Meditation
Just This: Ten Meditations With Ram Dass* Available on CD. * Available on Tape.
A four-cassette album of meditation practices led by Ram Dass. The tapes are Visualization Meditation, Vipassana Meditation, Sound and Silence, and On Being with What Is. Using methods drawn from Tibetan Dzogchen, Vipassana, and other meditative traditions, Ram Dass guides us in practices which center our awareness in the deeper nature of our being.
Psychedelics and the Spiritual Journey 
Gathering Of Minds Spirituality And Psychedelics
In his lecture to a psychedelic conference at Chapman University, Ram Dass described the role psychedelics have played in his own spiritual unfolding, and examined the implications of techniques which "open the doors of our conceptual prisons." Ram Dass addresses questions about the ritual and sacramental uses of psychedelics, their risks and benefits, their capacity to shift the focus of our consciousness, and their effect on our "egocentric predicament."
Psychedelic Frontiers  
Alise Agar and Charles Grob interviewed Ram Dass as part of a project to chronicle the stories of the "psychedelic pioneers." They talked about what we have learned from psychedelics, and about the role of psychedelics in shaping our contemporary culture  
Family and Relationships
Conscious Parenting * Available on CD. * Available on Tape. Being Free Together * Available on CD. * Available on Tape.
The relationship between parent and child is perhaps our most powerful human bond. In this collection of excerpts from lectures and questions-and-answer sessions about parenting, Ram Dass shows how we can view that relationship from a new perspective: Since you and I spend so much time on relationships, Ram Dass says, wouldn't it be nice if we could turn them into a yoga for getting free?

 
The Path of the Heart * Available on CD. * Available on Tape. Preparing for the Possibility * Available on Tape.
For most of us, love seems a particularly joyful path to God, one that allows us to bring the sweetness of the human heart into the spiritual journey.     In what he calls "a journey into balance," Ram Dass speaks of the influence of relationships on our spiritual path, and encourages us to find the equilibrium between separateness and unity.
Promises and Pitfalls of the Spiritual Path  * Available on Tape. Relationship, Community, and the Spiritual Quest * Available on Tape.
In a lecture to the International Conference of Transpersonal Psychology, Ram Dass talks about the relationship between spirituality and psychological health. How -- and why -- do we come together to share our lives with one another? Ram Dass invites us to ask ourselves what community is all about, and what its role is in our spiritual evolution.
Still Here
Still Here * Audio book * Available on Tape. The Texture of Silence * Available on Tape.
In Still Here, Ram Dass helps us explore the joy, pain, and opportunities of the ripening seasons of our lives. "When your only motive is to get to God, you begin to ask, "What in my incarnation takes me there?" In other words, "What is Grace?"
In The Now  *VIDEO*  
The book signing at Open Secret was primarily an evening of dialog and questions, many of them close to the heart of the issues of death and dying, aging, and spiritual practice.  

 

 

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