Spiritual teaching with its human edges intact.
Ram Dass Here And Now centers archival talks where spiritual practice meets ordinary human life. The episodes move through karma, devotion, community, grief, desire, and service with a patient, story-led seriousness.
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Ram Dass Here And Now is a spiritual archive with the looseness and charge of spoken teaching still present. The show is not built around fast interviews or tidy self-improvement steps. It is built around Ram Dass thinking, remembering, circling, doubting, clarifying, and returning to the same deep questions from another angle. What does it mean to listen for a life’s right expression? How does devotion coexist with independence? What changes when suffering is met from the heart rather than from fear or separation? The episodes often begin with practical spiritual concerns and then widen into karma, dharma, service, community, desire, death, and love. They are measured, intimate, and sometimes unruly in the way a live talk can be. A story about burning old keepsakes becomes a teaching on attachment and timing. A reflection on Maharaji opens into grace, surrender, and the uneasy human fear of giving oneself over. A discussion of retreat and marketplace life becomes a sharper claim: the city is not the obstacle; the mind meeting the city is. Ram Dass repeatedly refuses the fantasy that spiritual life means floating above incarnation. The body, the family, the culture, the nation, the ecosystem, and the painful facts of human need all remain part of the curriculum. There is devotional language here, but it is not sterile or decorative. Bhakti, kirtan, guru, karma yoga, and the path of the heart are treated as lived methods for transformation. The show’s best quality is its patience with paradox. It can hold unity and difference, truth and inconsistency, solitude and care, renunciation and desire. It also carries moments of dry humor, especially when spiritual seriousness bumps into ordinary vanity or cultural conditioning. Some episodes include kirtan and named spiritual figures, but the center remains the teaching voice and its long moral weather. For listeners drawn to contemplative practice, Eastern traditions, service, and the emotional labor of becoming more fully human, it offers depth without hurry.
Made for: For listeners drawn to contemplative spirituality, Eastern traditions, service, and reflective talks that take time to arrive. It especially suits people who prefer lived spiritual inquiry over quick advice.
What sets it apart: The show preserves the cadence of archival oral teaching, including the digressions, repetitions, doubts, and sudden turns that make the lessons feel alive. Its focus is not only awakening, but awakening while remaining fully involved in human life.
Ram Dass shares his heart-centered wisdom in each episode featuring excerpted lectures given throughout the last 40 years, with an introduction from Raghu Markus of Ram Dass' Love Serve Remember Foundation.
A hot tub craving becomes your mirror for desire, which is inconveniently harder to unsubscribe from.
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Ram Dass reaches his limit at the fire when someone brings out Maharaji pictures.
Ram Dass burns his photographs and keepsakes one by one. At first he takes it lightly. By the second day, he finds himself holding on. Then someone brings out a pile of Maharaji pictures and asks if those should go into the fire too. He says he is not ready.
Reality romance, judged with warmth.
Dating chaos, translated into usable rules.
Self-care talk with real-life texture.
Love letters with telenovela stakes.
This episode discusses the importance of meditation teacher training and features a free online event with Buddhist teacher David Nickturn.
This episode explores the difference between being responsive and reactive, offering strategies to cultivate emotional regulation and mindful communication.
By 1967 Ram Dass felt stuck on an "asymptotic curve" despite huge LSD doses and programmed sessions with slides and tapes.
This episode discusses the process of listening and tuning in meditation, with sponsor messages for BetterHelp and a meditation teacher training event.
This episode discusses the subtle nature of love and includes sponsor messages for BetterHelp and a meditation teacher training event.
This episode explores how to listen for your unique manifestation path, with sponsor messages about therapy and meditation teacher training.
This episode is a promotional segment for BetterHelp and a meditation teacher training event, not a full podcast episode.
This episode discusses cultivating a spiritual perspective through meditation and mindfulness, with sponsor messages about therapy and meditation teacher training.
This episode features kirtan music by Jai Uttal, exploring the spiritual connection where souls meet through devotional chanting.
Ram Dass's 1987 Buddhism and Psychotherapy keynote examines why spiritual practice should lead back to ordinary human experience rather than escape from it.
This episode explores the role of truth and honesty in building and maintaining healthy relationships.
A guided meditation episode that leads listeners through a river bank visualization to promote relaxation and mindfulness.