Ram Dass, the psychedelic pioneer once known as Richard Alpert and notorious for getting fired by Harvard after giving undergraduate students drugs in the early 1960s, died at age 88 a little more ...

Few people symbolize the 1960s as much as Richard Alpert, the one-time Harvard University psychology professor turned LSD advocate, turned Ram Dass _ spiritual mentor for tens of thousands of ...

Timothy Leary’s psychedelic sidekick Richard Alpert was a Harvard psychologist before he turned on, tuned in and dropped out. By the time he re-emerged, it was as the spiritually awakening Ram Dass ...

Baba Ram Dass. That’s a name that will take many of us back in time – especially my fellow boomers, who had copies of his best seller, “Be Here Now,” lying around their dorm rooms. While Ram Dass was ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the early 1960s, Richard Alpert was a Harvard professor of psychology conducting clinical research into the use of psychedelics. But then he and his colleague Timothy Leary were ...

(Reuters) - Ram Dass, who in the 1960s joined Timothy Leary in promoting psychedelic drugs as the path to inner enlightenment before undergoing a spiritual rebirth he spelled out in the influential ...

KAHULUI — Counterculture icon and spiritual leader Ram Dass, whose teachings are familiar to millions around the world, was remembered Monday afternoon at a “Celebration of Love” at the Maui Arts & ...

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 ...

A celebration of life for counterculture icon Ram Dass will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday at the Castle Theater at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center in Kahului. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. with seating ...

Ram Dass became a household name in New Age circles when he published Be Here Now in 1971, a book about Eastern spirituality, meditation, and yoga. He traveled to India in 1967, as his previous ...

It’s true that Ram Dass became famous, or infamous, as a psychedelic researcher and proponent, but that was when he was Dr. Richard Alpert. In the 50 years after he went to India, found his guru, and ...