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Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931) is an American spiritual teacher and the author of the seminal 1971 book Be Here Now. He is known for his personal and professional associations with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s, for his travels to India and his relationship with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, and for founding the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation. He continues to teach via his website.
Richard Alpert was born to a Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts. His father, George Alpert, was a lawyer in Boston, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, one of the founders of Brandeis University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as a major fundraiser for Jewish causes. While Richard did have a bar mitzvah, he was "disappointed by its essential hollowness". He considered himself an atheist and did not profess any religion during his early life, describing himself as “inured to religion. I didn’t have one whiff of God until I took psychedelics.”
Actors: Lily Y. Monteverde (producer), Nonong Buencamino (composer), Rio Locsin (actress), Charo Santos-Concio (producer), Angelica Panganiban (actress), Malou N. Santos (producer), Mhalouh Crisologo (actress), Mat Ranillo III (actor), Jaime Fabregas (actor), Romeo Rivera (actor), Tony Carreon (actor), Romy Romulo (actor), Jean Garcia (actress), Edgardo Vinarao (editor), Romy Suzara (director),
Genres: Drama, Family, War,Actors: Bill Daly (miscellaneous crew), Alfonso Cuarón (director), Alan C. Blomquist (producer), Barry Levinson (producer), Eleanor Bron (actress), Patrick Doyle (composer), Rusty Schwimmer (actress), Time Winters (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), Mark Johnson (producer), Liam Cunningham (actor), Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Chris Ellis (actor), Jack E. Herman (miscellaneous crew), Mark Harden (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth. Sara's belief that "every girl's a princess" is tested to the limit, however, when word comes that her father was killed in action and his estate has been seized by the British government.
Keywords: 1910s, african-american, amnesia, army-captain, asian-indian, attic, balloon, based-on-novel, battlefield, bedroomActors: Takeshi Seyama (editor), Hideyuki Tanaka (actor), Chika Sakamoto (actress), Sumi Shimamoto (actress), Banjô Ginga (actor), Daisuke Gôri (actor), Yoshiko Sakakibara (actress), Chieko Honda (actress), Tôru Furuya (actor), Tomomichi Nishimura (actor), Ikuya Sawaki (actor), Naoko Watanabe (actress), Frances Hodgson Burnett (writer), Kazue Ikura (actress), Eiko Yamada (actress),
Plot: Anime adaption of 1905's children's novel 'A Little Princess'. Sara Crewe arrives in London with her wealthy father to enter Miss Minchin's boarding school for young ladies. Despite an unhappy incident which makes Miss Minchin vexed with her, she leads a contented life until one day, her birthday, the news of the sudden death of her father plunges her into poverty. She is forced to do lowly work for the Seminary and in her situation, she is a welcome target to Miss Minchin and her former fellow pupil Lavinia, who once envied her wealth. But with the help of her friends she made and her own will-power she finds the strength to never give up.
Keywords: animeActors: Cesar Romero (actor), Vesey O'Davoren (actor), Charles Irwin (actor), Miles Mander (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Harry Allen (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Holmes Herbert (actor), Keith Hitchcock (actor), Ian Hunter (actor), Clyde Cook (actor), Olaf Hytten (actor), Will Stanton (actor),
Plot: When her father, Captain Crewe, goes off to fight in the Boer War, young Sara Crewe is placed into the care of Amanda Minchin, the head of an exclusive private school for girls. Sara lives a wonderful life of a privileged child and is quite happy in her surroundings. When her father is listed as missing in action however, her life goes from one of plenty to that of a poor house maid. Mrs. Minchin agrees to keep her on at the school, but in the absence of her tuition payments, she has to work for her keep. She is soon cleaning out the fireplace and scrubbing floors and is dubbed the little princess by her former schoolmates. She also refuses to accept that her father is dead and prowls the hospitals in the hope of locating him. Luck - and Royal intervention - assist her in her quest.
Keywords: 19th-century, anger, based-on-novel, battered-child, birthday, birthday-cake, birthday-party, birthday-present, boarding-school, boer-warActors: Norman Kerry (actor), W.E. Lawrence (actor), Anne Schaefer (actress), Gertrude Short (actress), Mary Pickford (producer), Frances Marion (writer), Marshall Neilan (director), Joe Murphy (actor), Theodore Roberts (actor), Gustav von Seyffertitz (actor), Edythe Chapman (actress), Joan Marsh (actress), Mary Pickford (actress), Zasu Pitts (actress), Frances Hodgson Burnett (writer),
Plot: Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
Keywords: adult-actress-playing-minor, based-on-novel, boarding-school, female-protagonistActors: C. Gardner Sullivan (writer), Joseph J. Dowling (actor), Roy Laidlaw (actor), Louis Morrison (actor), J. Barney Sherry (actor), Charles Swickard (director), Victor Schertzinger (composer), Rhea Mitchell (actress), Tsuru Aoki (actress), J. Frank Burke (actor), Henry Woodruff (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,What we offer one another as human beings is an environment. And in spending so much time in relationships, it only makes sense that we try to use them as a vehicle for awakening. But what does it mean to be a safe space for another human being, to not have an agenda in sharing time with each other? This process requires a shift in the way we view our relationships, and the function they serve in our lives. In looking through the lens of separateness we see relationships as a means to fulfill desires, reinforce identities, and defend the personalities we’ve worked so hard to maintain. In extricating ourselves from these desire systems we free the mind and body to be open to the appropriate response within any dynamic. We offer ourselves as needed but avoid getting caught up in the giving a...
A discussion about "somebodyness", and the urge to break out of our conditioned bonds of the thinking mind and into the spacious realm of compassion and being. Please visit the following link for additional teachings on Compassion: https://www.ramdass.org/compassion-truth-adversity/ Photos: Mary Bloom, Tom Asher
In this lecture, held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds, Ram Dass discusses the changes he's experienced in himself over the many years that he's been teaching. He admits to having been caught in the separateness of acting as a, 'holy man', trying to be what everybody wanted him to be. He eventually had to acknowledge that part of him was using the spiritual path to avoid the things he couldn't face in himself, and that the game wasn't about getting high, but getting free. This requires embracing all of life, incorporating the darkness into the light. The human heart is the doorway to intuition and our actions must come from the blending of humanity and divinity. Until we fully accept our humanity, our intuition will lack harmony. When we embrace our uniqueness and accept responsibility f...
Ram Dass describes the levels the Western mind has to go through to move beyond rational thought, and accept that other planes of reality are just as real as the physical plane. Then, and only then, can we give up who we thought we were and accept who we truly are. In you is everything you need to be a fully enlightened being. He also describes the processes one goes through when they surrender to God. From feeling the pull of God, to understanding the paradox of consciousness, Ram Dass walks the audience through the stages of the evolution of awakening. In seeking liberation, we must look toward God, but also honor our incarnation and relieve suffering on the physical plane. (Martha's Vineyard, MA - (8/16/1975). Please click the following link for additional teachings on Awakening: https...
An exploration of the basic questions for anyone attempting to do business in a conscious way. Is it possible to do business, make a profit, act in truth and integrity and be of genuine service all at once? In his presentation Ram Dass depthfully sheds light and answers questions on such topics as: role-entrapment, the "inner-game" of business, personal power, obsessions with "success", alienation, deepening the "bottom line," collaboration and competition, going beyond ego, the downsides of being successful, stress, change, and fear. A useful and heartful tool to anyone "doing business" in the world. (LA, CA - 1/30/1987) Photos: Rameshwar Das, Mary Bloom, David Lenfest
Love is a particularly joyful path to God, one that allows us to bring the sweetness of the human heart into the spiritual journey. Ram Dass shows us how we can transform romantic attachment into the deeper truth of expanding, conscious love. (Rhinebeck, NY - July 1992) Please click the following link for additional teachings on Love: https://www.ramdass.org/love-is-now/ Photos: Tom Asher, Rameshwar Das
Everything is either a vehicle for awakening or for going more deeply to sleep. When we identify with our roles, we need the others to play their roles. When Ram Dass was a psychologist, he needed you to be a patient. We have to let go of the fruit of the actions. The answer is it doesn't matter what the world of form does, only whether you awaken. Ram Dass was crying with jealous rage. He used every method that Ram Dass teaches. None of them worked. The deeper his faith, the deeper his willingness to work with the human stuff. The truth is both spiritual and human. Artists dip into non-conceptual energy and bring it back into the world of form. (Minnesota - 5/15/1982)
An evening with Ram Dass and Eckhart Tolle - these two teachers engage in an open conversation about spiritual awakening and the transformation of consciousness, October 28, 2011 in Maui, HI.
We live in the midst of great change - whether social dislocations or the aging of our bodies - which confront our egos with fear. How we work with our awareness in the face of that fear determines whether we can bring healing to the situations we encounter. (San Rafael, CA - 1994) Please click the following link for additional teachings on Fear: https://www.ramdass.org/practical-aspects-for-dealing-with-fear/ Photos: Lisa Law, Rameshwar Das
Our concepts of who we are help us to navigate our world, but they are often overvalued and have the potential to trap us in form. These traits create an image with which we identify, and subsequently struggle to maintain as we are presented with life's inevitable changes. In this talk, given at the University of Vermont, Ram Dass begins by asking the question, 'Who am I?'. Are we the vast array of personality traits that arise in our day to day lives? Can we pinpoint exactly who or what we are within our body, mind or spirit? These questions, as Ram Dass explains, continuously led him back into the void, as every answer he had was ultimately untrue. He eventually learned to identify with the creator, rather than the creation, and his sense of separateness began to dissolve. We often fai...
Ram Dass interviewed on the BBC in 1981. Ram Dass tells his story. Ram Dass is spiritual not religious. The entire universe is lawful in its unfolding. It's not by chance that each event occurs. It is a set of lawful interactions. It is best to listen for your part in the play, not the chooser. We have taken a human birth to have a series of experiences which are vehicles for our awakening out of the illusion that we are exclusively separate. The journey of awakening goes from seeing yourself as separate to seeing that this "you" is only relatively real. You are separate on one plane, but going up one level, you see that we are not separate.
Ram Dass interviewed on the BBC in 1981. Ram Dass talks about how we use techniques that free us from identifying ourselves as our thoughts. As we extricate ourselves from these attachments, it's as if we are going behind the thoughts, to the space behind them. There is a difference between saying, "I am depressed" and saying ,"There is depression." In the spaciousness behind the forms is the equanimity. Prisoners can use their time in prison to become free. Prisons are a lot like monasteries. Ram Dass isn't in the business of pleasure and happiness, but he is in the business of freedom and awakening. When you awaken, you stop identifying with your body. Then, you lose the fear of death.
http://bhaktifest.com/ Ram Dass first went to India in 1967 when he was still Dr. Richard Alpert, an already eminent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr. Timothy Leary. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, who gave Ram Dass his name, which means "servant of God." Everything changed then - his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words "Be Here Now" ever since. Ram Dass's spirit has been a guiding light for three generations. Through the auspices of Center for Spiritual Studies, Director Sridhar Silberfein brought Ram Dass over to Maui in 2004 to host a retreat. When recognizing a notable difference in Ram Dass’ well-being, it was decided he would stay on the island to maintain good health. Aft...
Since Bhakti Fest's inception, Ram Dass has made an annual appearance through exclusive interviews with founder, Sridhar Silberfein, who travels to Maui each year and films their conversations. Known for their humor, inspiration, and unmasked devotional attitude, these videos have been a highlight of the festival for the past six years. Transcribed for print and edited by Amy V. Dewhurst, author of Heartbreak Yoga, with a forward by notable kirtan artist Krishna Das, these conversations are presented in ways that are relatable to the Western yogi, no matter their level of practice or experience with yoga and Eastern spirituality. Known to never shy away from controversy, Sridhar approaches sensitive topics with ease and candor-from the spiritual significance of psychedelics to contemplatin...
State of the World Forum. Ram Dass interviews James George about awakening to our inner frontiers in order to solve our global and environmental problems instead of trying to solve problems only from our intellects. George says that inner consciousness and inner awareness are the keys to real change. The American culture suffers from not being exposed to enough of other cultures, such as Asian culture.
Published on Sep 21, 2016 http://bhaktifest.com/ Ram Dass first went to India in 1967 when he was still Dr. Richard Alpert, an already eminent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr. Timothy Leary. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, who gave Ram Dass his name, which means "servant of God." Everything changed then - his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words "Be Here Now" ever since. Ram Dass's spirit has been a guiding light for three generations. Through the auspices of Center for Spiritual Studies, Director Sridhar Silberfein brought Ram Dass over to Maui in 2004 to host a retreat. When recognizing a notable difference in Ram Dass’ well-being, it was decided he would stay on the island to...
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2rdass.html NOTE: This is the full broadcast portion of the interview. It was continued in-studio with an additional 58-minute discussion which is available on our 86-minute DVD. Ram Dass probes deeply into the nature of helping relationships. He suggests that when we see deeply into each human being, no matter how desperate the situation, we are able to honor and learn from them. If we view ourselves as the "helper," we become trapped in the prison of our own self-image -- and this interferes with genuine compassion. Ram Dass' own path has led him to look for God in every person and situation. Following this path, his life of service has included working with refugees, with the blind, and with the dying. In this moving, two-part program, he examine...
Richard Alpert before he went to India and became Ram Dass, discussing LSD and the unity of all beings. Please click the following link for additional teachings on Psychedelics: https://www.ramdass.org/psychedelics-shift-reality/
Ram Dass interviews Thich Nhat Hanh at State of the Wold forum. Thich Nhat Hanh talks about using mindfulness to take tender loving care of our anger. Being aware and mindful of our breathing helps us to take good care of our emotions. Our anger is like a flower that needs the sunshine of our mindfulness. Our western culture focuses mostly on the intellect, but mindfulness is more important. The insight of impermanence should be understood in our daily life. Everything is impermanent and is made of everything else.
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