Be Here Now

489 Pages·1971·7.86 MB·English

by  Ram Dass

What’s Inside:
Video: Ram Dass: Love, Serve, Remember
Video: Be Here Now Meditation: Just This Awareness
Video: Be Love Now Meditation: Ocean of Love
Chapter One of Be Love Now
CONTENTS:
1

JOURNEY
THE TRANSFORMATION:
DR. RICHARD ALPERT, Ph.D
INTO
BABA RAM DASS
2

FROM BINDU TO OJAS
THE CORE BOOK
3

COOKBOOK FOR A SACRED LIFE
A MANUAL FOR CONSCIOUS BEING
4

PAINTED CAKES
BOOKS
Ram Dass: Love, Serve, Remember
COST DISTRIBUTION

HANUMAN FOUNDATION

A CURRENT NOTE

BE HERE NOW was originally distributed in pamphlet form
by Lama Foundation and was subsequently published by Lama
Foundation as this book, more than 928,300 copies of which
have been distributed by Crown Publishers to date. In the
summer of 1977 Lama Foundation decided to give the
copyright and half the proceeds from BE HERE NOW to
Hanuman Foundation to further distribute the energy
generated by this book through the projects of Hanuman
Foundation. For this generous sacrifice and gesture of faith,
Hanuman Foundation would like to thank Lama Foundation.
Hanuman Foundation, instigated by Ram Dass, was
incorporated in California in 1974 as a tax-exempt non-profit
corporation to “promulgate spiritual well-being among
members of the society as a whole through education and
service, by spiritual training and by publications and
recordings, and to promote the study, practice, and teaching of
spiritual knowledge.” A newsletter and catalog are sent semi-
annually describing the activities of Hanuman Foundation,
which include the Prison-Ashram Project, Dying Project,
Hanuman Tape Library, Ram Dass’ lecture tours and retreats,
and other tentative projects. If you would like to receive this
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and address to Hanuman Foundation, Box 203, 524 San
Anselmo Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960.
JAI HANUMAN!
DR. RICHARD ALPERT, Ph.D INTO
BABA RAM DASS
NAMASTÉ
OUR-STORY

There are three stages in this journey that I have been on! The
first, the social science stage; the second, the psychedelic
stage; and the third, the yogi stage. They are summating—that
is, each is contributing to the next. It’s like the unfolding of a
lotus flower. Now, as I look back, I realize that many of the
experiences that made little sense to me at the time they
occurred were prerequisites for what was to come later. I want
to share with you the parts of the internal journey that never
get written up in the mass media: I’m not interested in the
political parts of the story; 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.