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Berkeley, San Francisco CA, United States

The name Ram Dass applies to two people.

1. Dr. Richard Alpert (born April 6, 1931), also known as Baba Ram Dass, a contemporary spiritual teacher best known for writing the 1971 bestseller Be Here Now.

2. Ram Dass (Khalsa), (born July 28, 1987), a classically-trained musician, composer, and producer from Berkeley, CA. He is best known for his appearance on Snatam Kaur’s album, Live In Concert, and his own album, The Alchemist’s Prayer.

1. His spiritual journey began at Harvard University, where he and colleagues Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner began experiments with the (then legal) psychedelic drugs psilocybin and LSD. Due to his experiences with these chemicals, and the subsequent backlash from authorities in the USA, Alpert headed to India in the late 1960s. There he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, and took the name of Ram Dass (“servant of God”). After staying with the guru for a time, he returned to the United States, and has given talks and retreats since that time.


2. Ram Dass Khalsa grew up in a musical family in the San Francisco Bay Area. As music was in his blood, he took to it very quickly and was raised on artists ranging from the Beatles to Beethoven and Prokofiev, John Coltrane to Ravi Shankar.

He has performed regularly alongside Snatam Kaur, Guru Ganesha Singh, Manish Vyas, and Tanmayo, Ram Dass produced Prabhu Nam Kaur’s album “Seasons of the Soul” featuring Snatam Kaur as well as tracks on Simrit Kaur’s album “The Sweetest Nectar”.
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  • PinkFloydrulez

    I love his laugh

    6 Mar 2011 Reply

  • sunearth

    great

    29 Mar 2010 Reply

  • ThankyouRamDass

    I love you Ram Dass. Thank you for everything you do. You saved me.

    12 Feb 2010 Reply

  • DeeprBlue

    you have saved my life so many times

    11 Jan 2010 Reply

  • ShantiDass

    I met Baba Ram Dass once, we never spoke but shared tears of love, a memory I will never forget, when I bring him to mind I fill up again with tears and love for him and Neem Karoli Baba OM Shanti Shanti Shanti Love you man

    17 Nov 2009 Reply

  • remiwhite

    Love you, Ram Dass.

    11 Sep 2009 Reply

  • bufo_alvarius

    Respect for Ram Dass! I Love his spoken word. Just revealing mysticism... The album with Kriece "Cosmix" is absolutely amazing.

    21 May 2009 Reply

  • MegazoicWizard

    "You understand that everything is real depending on where you're looking at it from. Just like: you dreamt last night and in that dream, that stuff was real. And you woke up... but into what? Ultimately you must realise that you've woken up into another dream."

    2 Feb 2009 Reply

  • dionysis82

    Overlooked!

    21 Sep 2008 Reply

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