Ep. 289 – There Is No Other, New Ram Dass Book Release with Parvati & Raghu Markus
Ram Dass Here And Now
Ram Dass / Love Serve Remember
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Celebrating the release of There Is No Other, a new book of teachings from Ram Dass' lectures, Parvati Markus and Raghu Markus listen to and reflect on some of the material used in its creation.
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This special episode of Here and Now celebrates the new book, There Is No Other, a collection of teachings taken from Ram Dass’ lectures. In these times, Ram Dass’ teachings on wholeness and unity are more needed than ever.
- We begin with a clip of Ram Dass exploring the mindset of “us versus them.” Who exactly is us? Who is them? Raghu and Parvati reflect on how this clip is central to the theme of There Is No Other.
- The next clip features Ram Dass talking about the balance of heart and mind. Sharing a powerful real-life example, he explores how we cut ourselves off when we veil our hearts. Raghu and Parvati share how the book is about walking a path to harmony and wholeness.
- The third clip finds Ram Dass examining Ramana Maharshi’s concept of “God, Guru, Self,” and how we can begin to appreciate that the Spirit is everywhere. Parvati and Raghu discuss how Ram Dass' new book speaks to this really important moment in our lives.
- We end with a brief clip of Ram Dass talking about the path of love. “Finally,” he says, “you become an environment, a vibratory rate…”
“So the mind, if it gets too strong, out of balance with the heart, shuts down all the information that the heart can give. It cuts you off from your wisdom, really. You don’t even see all the stuff. I mean, you and I are simultaneously existing on so many planes of reality, but because of the power of our minds, we keep limiting which realities are real, and the rest of it we either treat as error or we don’t even notice. It’s so deeply unconscious, we just don’t even notice all the rest of us, of ourselves.” – Ram Dass
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| 1:19.6 | This is R-E-L-P-E-L-P-O-N-E-N-O-B-E. This is Ram Dass here and now, and I'm happy to be back here, Ragu Marcus. |
| 1:26.6 | And we have a very special episode that I think everyone will appreciate. |
| 1:32.2 | And joining me is Parvati Marcus, mother of my children. |
| 1:40.1 | And she was the editor and writer that pulled this book together, |
| 1:43.0 | which is there is no other. |
| 1:51.2 | And we have to give credit to Mirabai bush part of the gang and uh she came up with the title and you know this of course we've been going through some really tough stuff |
| 1:57.8 | in our world here more than just this year. The title that she came up with |
| 2:02.8 | was what, a couple of years ago, a year and a half ago, something. We were still having plenty |
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