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Ram Dass

Spiritual teacher and author

United States · 1931–2019

American teacher and writer, born Richard Alpert, who was dismissed from Harvard's psychology faculty in 1963 over the psilocybin research he ran with Timothy Leary, travelled to India, and returned as the author of Be Here Now. He spent decades sitting with the dying and helped found the Living Dying Project. In February 1997 a cerebral haemorrhage left him partly paralysed and aphasic; he lived and taught from a wheelchair for twenty-two more years, and died in Maui in December 2019.

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Question What is the most important lesson life has taught you? Time & hindsight read 80 other answers →

Well, I—I've experienced that the stroke was grace. It was grace, for me, to play, to get inside, grace. I was dependent. These are things that I—those, those were graceful things. You know, pushed. And just go inside, to be—you're a quote "author" and it's a cultural thing, that role, to get into your head. But it's a head game. It's a head game. And I wanted to get down to my spiritual identity. And the stroke placed me at the spiritual identity.

Recorded Ross Simonini, The Believer, issue 115, by Skype from Hawaii, 20 November 2017 source ↗

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