Ram Dass: Soul Land

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Last week, the Sounds True community was saddened to hear of the passing of Ram Dass, one of the great lights of American spiritual inquiry. Born Richard Alpert, Ram Dass (meaning "servant of God") rose to the forefront of psychedelic exploration and the movement toward Eastern philosophy in the 1960s and '70s. He wrote the all-time classic Be Here Now in addition to many other published works, including Sounds True's Walking Each Other Home. This special edition of Insights at the Edge presents an interview between Tami Simon and Ram Dass from 2012. During this conversation, Ram Dass and Tami discuss a deeper exploration of the self and the individual soul. They talk about experiencing the guru Maharaj-ji living on through the bodies and teachings of his students. Finally, Ram Dass considers the everyday experience of the atman—what he calls "the mega soul" beyond all others.(64 minutes)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:04.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.
0:08.0	And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:12.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to
0:26.8	transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.3	The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities
0:46.9	in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.4	please visit sounds true foundation.org. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:10.0	This episode is a special memorial rebroadcast of a conversation with Ram Das on Soul Land.
1:21.0	On December 22nd, 2019, at 88 years of age, Ram Das peacefully drew his last breath,
1:30.9	and his soul, which he spoke about extensively in later years, took leave of his body.
1:40.0	Born Richard Alpert, Ram Das is known to millions as the 1960s Harvard-trained psychologist who explored
1:47.5	LSD with Timothy Leary, befriended Beat Poets and Tibetan llamas, found his guru,
1:54.3	Nim Kurai Baba in India, whom he called Maharaji,
1:59.0	and penned the perennial classic,
2:01.7	Be here now.
2:03.5	For those of us who knew Ram Das, we knew him as a torch of love and one that keeps burning.
2:11.3	In this very moving conversation from 2012, Ram Das is connecting to the Sounds True
2:16.8	studio from his home in Maui. In this episode you'll hear Ram Das talk about his experience of different planes of consciousness
2:27.2	and the relationship between the individual soul and what he calls the mega soul or Ottoman, here's a taste of loving awareness that lives on and on with
2:40.3	Ram Das. As many of our listeners know Ram Das, you suffered an almost life-threatening stroke in 1997,
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