"I'm not interested in what you read in the Saturday Evening Post about LSD. "I want to share with you the parts of the internal journey that never get written up in the mass media," he wrote. The spiritual primer found its way into thousands of backpacks around the world. He wrote about his experiences with drugs, set up projects to help prisoners and those facing terminal illness and sought to enlighten others about the universal struggle with aging.īut he was best known for the 1971 book "Be Here Now," written after his trip to India. Over the years, Ram Dass - born Richard Alpert - associated with the likes of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. It's just beautiful," he told followers in a videotaped message at the time from his hospital bed in Hawaii. "I had really thought about checking out, but your love and your prayers convinced me not to do it. He underwent hip surgery after he was injured in a fall in November 2008, according to his website. He had suffered a severe stroke in 1997 that left him paralyzed on the right side and, for a time, unable to speak. Ram Dass' foundation, Love Serve Remember, announced late Sunday that the author and spiritual leader died peacefully at his home earlier in the day.
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