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This wonderful program offers true insight into Ram Dass’ thoughts on a variety of topics that have informed his worldview and subsequent teachings. Recorded in October of 1968 at the Seminar House in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, this much beloved teacher talks about his own spiritual teachers and other gurus and their impact on his own beliefs; the concept of “Be Here Now” - which became the title of his seminal and renowned book published three years after this talk; the practice of yoga; the use of psychedelics like LSD; and other compelling topics.

"We are egos, we are souls, and we are the One," says Ram Dass. On So You Think You're Somebody?, this brilliant teacher illuminates the nature of our true identity by describing three planes of being: the egoic plane of our physical, emotional, and mental reality; the soul plane; and the plane of pure awareness.

Ram Dass asks us to consider the ways in which our culture’s pervading myth of unbridled individualism has generated the destabilizing forces confronting us. "Injustice is rooted in a frightened heart." To remain open to the tremendous suffering we encounter requires an exquisite balance of the rational mind and intuitive heart.

Ram Dass explains that we must first acknowledge our humanity if we hope to be an instrument of presence and peace. When we embrace our humanness, we create the space necessary for compassion to arise. We learn to balance the suffering we encounter with the innate empathy of the human heart. We awaken through our life experiences, which become the curriculum for our incarnation. Our humanity itself is the vehicle through which our spirit can manifest. The help we offer is who we are, our very being.

Better Listen presents Sacred in the Every Day, by Ram Dass. Recorded in 1987 in Great Britain.

In this lecture from 1975 "Stages of a Journey", Ram Dass discusses our journey through plains of consciousness and degrees of fate towards simplicity and quietness - to a kind of joy that is beyond time - a journey where we leave behind all our models of who we are. It is a journey that involves the transformation of our beings such that our thinking mind becomes our servant rather than master.

Ram Dass talks about suffering on August 9, 1987.

Ram Dass recorded this talk on July 20, 2003 about two old sadhus stories of Baba, and he is accompanied by Shivaya. Bhajan is Jai Gurudev by Uma Reed.

Experience Ram Dass, one of the most inspirational and accessible teachers of our time, give a full-length talk on compassion, suffering, and the nature of reality. This full-length program is a wonderful opportunity to be with Ram Dass at this Seva Foundation benefit taped in 1985 at Julia Richmond High School in New York City.

In this amazing program, Beyond Success: Finding Balance in Business, internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher Ram Dass reflects on the basic questions of how to do business in a conscious, more mindful, and balanced way. He explores the idea that commercial and conventional success can be self-limiting.

In Cultivating Intuitive Faith and True Surrender, the second program in the Cultivation series, Ram Dass is joined by Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, Rameshwar Das, Mirabai Bush, Raghu Markus, and special guest KK Sah, a close Maharaji devotee, to explore the nature of faith beyond the mind and surrender as it’s known in the Bhakti tradition.

In this fascinating transcribed excerpt from Consciousness, Aging and the New Millennium, Ram Dass - beloved teacher and author of the seminal work Be Here Now - explains to workshop attendees how absolutely any experience, even driving a car, can be used to expand awareness and awaken spiritually.

The Blessing of Mortality workshop with Ram Dass, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Frank Ostaseski. How do we overcome the fear of death? What techniques can we use to bring ourselves into boundlessness, to come into the realization of the truth of impermanence?

A March 16, 2003 talk by Ram Dass about his visit to the healer called "John of God" in Brazil.