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BetterListen is very proud to offer this collection of previously unreleased sessions with the legendary Ram Dass. Recorded in Arlington, VA, in November of 1996, the lectures dive deep into the universal subject of aging (mindfully), graceful awareness in an ever-changing world, and seeking peace in tumultuous times.

If you missed the Love Serve Remember Retreat last spring with Ram Dass and friends in Hawaii, this is your opportunity to listen to the almost eight hours of dharma talks from the wonderful event. BetterListen! is quite proud to offer the complete set of these recordings. The BetterListen! version has been digitally edited and remastered - for your listening pleasure!

In this lecture from 1975 "Stages of a Journey", Ram Dass discusses our journey through plains of consciousness and degrees of fate towards simplicity and quietness - to a kind of joy that is beyond time - a journey where we leave behind all our models of who we are. It is a journey that involves the transformation of our beings such that our thinking mind becomes our servant rather than master.

"We are egos, we are souls, and we are the One," says Ram Dass. On So You Think You're Somebody? this brilliant teacher illuminates the nature of our true identity by describing three planes of being: the egoic plane of our physical, emotional, and mental reality; the soul plane; and the plane...

In this fascinating transcribed excerpt from Consciousness, Aging and the New Millennium, Ram Dass - beloved teacher and author of the seminal work Be Here Now - explains to workshop attendees how absolutely any experience, even driving a car, can be used to expand awareness and awaken spiritually.

Ram Dass talks about suffering on August 9, 1987.

Recorded in 1980 in San Francisco, Ram Dass gives a glimpse into one of his more challenging experiences as a teacher. His humanity and humor come through in this transcribed excerpt from his workshop on relationships.

Ram Dass asks us to consider the ways in which our culture’s pervading myth of unbridled individualism has generated the destabilizing forces confronting us. "Injustice is rooted in a frightened heart." To remain open to the tremendous suffering we encounter requires an exquisite balance of the rational mind and intuitive heart.

This wonderful program offers true insight into Ram Dass’ thoughts on a variety of topics that have informed his worldview and subsequent teachings. Recorded in October of 1968 at the Seminar House in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, this much beloved teacher talks about his own spiritual teachers and other gurus and their impact on his own beliefs; the concept of “Be Here Now” - which became the title of his seminal and renowned book published three years after this talk; the practice of yoga; the use of psychedelics like LSD; and other compelling topics.

In Cultivating Intuitive Faith and True Surrender, the second program in the Cultivation series, Ram Dass is joined by Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, Rameshwar Das, Mirabai Bush, Raghu Markus, and special guest KK Sah, a close Maharaji devotee, to explore the nature of faith beyond the mind and surrender as it’s known in the Bhakti tradition.

Ram Dass recorded this talk on July 20, 2003 about two old sadhus stories of Baba, and he is accompanied by Shivaya. Bhajan is Jai Gurudev by Uma Reed.

In this amazing program, Beyond Success: Finding Balance in Business, internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher Ram Dass reflects on the basic questions of how to do business in a conscious, more mindful, and balanced way. He explores the idea that commercial and conventional success can be self-limiting.

Ouvrez votre cœur à une vie remplie d'abondance, libérée de la peur de la mort. "Vieillir en pleine conscience" est une inoubliable séance d'apprentissage avec Ram Dass, l'ancien professeur de Harvard dont les enseignements sur l'amour, la compassion et le sacrifice ont été internationalement reconnus. Dans cet enregistrement public, Ram Dass met en lumière l'une des grandes questions de notre temps : la peur de la vieillesse et de la mort.

A March 16, 2003 talk by Ram Dass about his visit to the healer called "John of God" in Brazil.

The Blessing of Mortality workshop with Ram Dass, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Frank Ostaseski. How do we overcome the fear of death? What techniques can we use to bring ourselves into boundlessness, to come into the realization of the truth of impermanence?

Better Listen presents Sacred in the Every Day, by Ram Dass. Recorded in 1987 in Great Britain.

In 1966, two authorities on LSD—Richard Alpert, PhD, AKA Ram Dass, and Sidney Cohen, MD—spoke out on the merits and dangers of the psychedelic drug as acclaimed photographer Lawrence Schiller documented the experiences as they were happening. This Commemorative Edition of LSD looks back at the public’s use of LSD in the 1960s and features a new introduction that explores the book’s relevance to today’s psychedelic renaissance.