A million years ago I worked in the Public Relations Department at Boston University. At the time there were 72 schools and colleges flourishing in the Greater Boston area, all bombarding the Boston ...

In the realms of spirituality and self-discovery, few figures stand out as vividly as Ram Dass. Born Richard Alpert, Ram Dass’s journey from a Harvard psychologist to a spiritual guru profoundly ...

Baba Ram Dass, a 1960s counterculture spiritual leader and early LSD proponent, has died at age 88. His death Sunday at his home in Maui, Hawaii, was announced by his foundation. The foundation said ...

Ram Dass, a gay man who epitomized the countercultural psychedelic 1960s and later became a bestselling New Age guru, died December 22 at his home on Maui, Hawaii. He was 88, and surrounded by loved ...

When as an undergraduate student in psychology and a ‘fresh-of-the-boat’ immigrant from India in early 1970s I read Be Here Now, I was gripped by the simplicity and profundity of the author’s voice.[1 ...

I woke up every thirty minutes the night before Ram Dass died. Stretching my perception through the big divider that separated his study—where I lay on a narrow couch—from his bedroom, I’d count the ...