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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.
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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.
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  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.
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Heart-Mind
Play $65 From two extraordinary 1994 & 1995
weekend workshops in San Rafael, California, we have selected these six
programs:
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The Essential Ram Dass
$35-$40
This album brings together four
favorite Ram Dass tapes:
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Being Free Together
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The Path of the Heart
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A Gathering of Souls
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The Seasons of Our Lives
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Healing Our Emotions, Fear, Anger
and Love
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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.
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Workshops |
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The Listening Heart
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The Heart of the Matter
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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
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The retreat at Breitenbush July
2000 opened a very deep heart-space. Every afternoon there were talks and
stories, questions and answers ... |
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Heart - Mind - * PLAY
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The Yogas of the Bhagavad Gita
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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.
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In the Company of Friends |
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The 1999 retreat at Omega Institute
was a rich smorgasbord of spiritual traditions, and offered an unusual
opportunity to see Ram Dass' ..... |
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Spirituality
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Ego and Soul
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Devotion and the Guru
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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;......
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In this lecture at Naropa Institute, Ram Dass gave a clear articulation of the path of Bhakti Yoga - the yoga of devotion.
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Do-er's Prison
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The Edge of the Mystery
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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,
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Open to the Infinite
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The Abode of the Message
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"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.
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The Book of Grace
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The Miracle of Consciousness
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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.
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The Wheel of Rebirth
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Weaving the Tapestry of Our Dreams
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"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! |
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To Speak about God
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If I Were to Teach the Advanced Course
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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.
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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."
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General
Lectures
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 The Essential Ram Dass
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The Path Of Awakening
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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. |
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Personality & Emotions
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Riding the Waves of Change
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How do we deal with all our emotional baggage in
the context of a spiritual journey?
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Change can seem frightening, or ripe with
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Ram Dass on Golf: New Dimensions In Learning
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Heavy Grace
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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.
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This is the first tape we offered of a talk given
by Ram Dass after his stroke. |
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The World of Soul
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Karma Yoga and
Compassion
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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."
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The Book Of Grace
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The Generosity of the Heart
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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. |
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Helping Ourselves Heal Others
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The Presence of God
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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. |
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Weaving the Tapestry of Our Dreams
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Models of the Mind
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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. |
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Awareness, Perspective and Change
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In the Cauldron of
Transformation
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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.
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Aging
Consciously
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Conscious Aging
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The Dance of Age
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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.
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Changeless Aging
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Invite Not The Future
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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. |
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Pathways to Awakening
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The Seasons of Our Lives
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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.
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Aging & the Awakening Potential of Change
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We love novelty. We're fascinated by that which changes. But when the changes
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Dying Into Life
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Behind The Changing
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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
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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. |
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The Dance of Forms
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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. |
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The Path of the Heart
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Bringing It Back Home
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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.
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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.
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Making Life Sacred
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Inner Work/Outer World
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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.
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This program is compiled from questions about spiritual practice and daily life:
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-Can we have a direct experience of God's presence?
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Metaphysics |
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A Gathering of Souls
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If I Were To Teach The Advanced Course
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"We're a party of souls. We're meeting through our psyches and our personalities but behind them, we're laughing."
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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."
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The Conspiracy of Consciousness
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If we adopt the Soul's perspective on our
incarnation, we start to see our lives as an inner dialog between Ego, Soul,
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Tools
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Malas and Mantras
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Mala and Mantra Gift Set |
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Social Action
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Embodying Spirit
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Rest In The Timeless
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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:
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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). |
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Ramayana
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The RAMAYANA.... |
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as retold by William Buck and read by Ram Dass |
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Suffering |
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On Suffering
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Suffering only happens to who we think we are; as we let go of our attachments, suffering becomes a path to awakening consciousness.
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Community
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Creating Conscious Community
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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.
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Relationships
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The Yoga of Relationship
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Being Free Together
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Ram Dass replies to questions about relationships in all their dimensions, and about strategies for using relationships as part of our spiritual journey.
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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? |
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Riding the Waves of Change
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The Generosity of the Heart
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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.
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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.
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Preparing for the
Possibility
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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.
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Death And Dying
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Dark Mysteries
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Dying Into Life
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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.
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Varanasi West
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Being with Dying
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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.
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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. |
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Facing Death
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Love is the Doorway
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"Part of our agenda as people of any age is to find some way of being with the idea of death," Ram Dass says.
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At the Center for Living in san Francisco, Ram Dass addressed a group of people confronting life threatening conditions. |
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Valuing Death
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Three Phases of Dying
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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.
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Ram Dass and Lama Gelek Rinpoche explore
contrasting Western and Tibetan views of death and after-death experiences. |
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Why Suffering
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Perspectives on Death
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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. |
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Death is not an Outrage
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"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. |
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Meditation
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Just This: Ten Meditations With Ram Dass
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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. |
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Psychedelics and the Spiritual Journey
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Gathering Of Minds
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Spirituality And Psychedelics |
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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."
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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."
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Psychedelic Frontiers |
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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 |
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Family and
Relationships
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Conscious Parenting
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Being Free Together
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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:
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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?
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The Path of the Heart
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Preparing for the Possibility
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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.
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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. |
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Promises and Pitfalls of the Spiritual Path
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Relationship, Community, and the Spiritual Quest
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In a lecture to the International Conference of
Transpersonal Psychology, Ram Dass talks about the relationship between
spirituality and psychological health.
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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.
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Still Here
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Still Here *
Audio book
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The Texture of Silence
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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?"
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In The Now
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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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