Remember, Be Here Now
by Ram Dass
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Book Reviews of Remember, Be Here Now
Book Review: A basic tool book for the soul.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have never read this book. I go to it when ever I find myself at some kind of personal impasse, depressed, or stymied any kind of activity in life. I go to the middle section, sometimes near the front, sometimes near the middle, and begin reading. I have NEVER gone to the end. At some point I discover I have the motivation, insight, understanding, or emotional "up" to get on with my life. I put down the book and do it.My own religious background is evangelical Christian. This book has a strong Hindu background and the fatalism of the Hindu religion usually repells me. But this book is different. The first and third sections are good basic guides on what an honest "good" person owes themself and society, and how to work off this debt in an efficient manner. When I first read it, I was struck by the obviousness of the observation that if you want to play good tennis, you go out and seek to play with tennis players who are better than you; if you want to improve your spiritual life, hang out with spiritually better people.
And cook books are useless if you never get out in the kitchen and cook.
Book Review: Buy this book. If you have it buy it again.
Summary: 5 Stars
This a fantastic book not just about mysticism but, like Blake, the mysticism of everyday life.
It is the ultimate self-help book and every page is filled with the joy of living.
Like Blake every page of this book is filled with illustrations and a poetic mysticism.
Self-help books come and go but this book should be on everyone's book shelf.
So much is said in the very word's or the book's title "be here now".
In the seventies I remember this book being in every dorm room. I think many of us benefited from it.
Perhaps some of us have forgotten its power so pick it up again. Buy it for someone you know who never had the experience of reading this book.
If you owned it once and lost it buy yourself a new copy. If your copy is old and dog eared buy yourself a new copy.
I had the pleasure of knowing Ram Dass personally. He was always caring and never acted like the celebrity he was.
Now Ram Dass needs our help as his situation as he approaches old age is not good.
Do yourself and Ram Dass a favor and buy this book. If you bought it before buy it again.
Book Review: Read it and change your life
Summary: 5 Stars
The message in Ram Dass's first book on returning from India is profoundly simple but enormously difficult to live by-"Be here now." Where are you? Here. What time is it? Now. This book has seen over 35 reprints with more than one million copies sold. Reading it can change your life.
Ram Dass, formerly Richard Alpert, was a professor dismissed from Harvard in 1963, along with colleague Timothy Leary, because of his experiments with mind-altering drugs such as LSD. In 1967 he traveled to India, found his guru (Neem Karoli Baba), then returned to North America to share his experience of enlightenment. In 1974, Ram Dass created the Hanuman Foundation, which developed the Prison Ashram Project, designed to help prison inmates grow spiritually during their incarceration, and the Dying Project, conceived as a spiritual support structure for conscious dying. He is a co-founder and advisory board member of the Seva Foundation, an international service organization, and he also works with the Social Venture Network, an organization of businesses seeking to bring social consciousness to business practices.
Book Review: Ram Dass in Hawaii
Summary: 5 Stars
In the 70s I remember sitting on my living room floor sharing with my roommates the very colorful Remember, Be Here Now. We were all reading it together. I was puzzled and so were they. We had no context to understand the simplicity of the spirit of the book. It was only as I experienced life and got older that I understood the joy of being in the moment -- of being conscious of real communication and compassion. I would like to think that that was the beginning of my personal path toward becoming a more aware human being and a family therapist. Although the book is from a very different era the messages and philosophies that Ram Dass brought to western society - after his long studies in India - are now so widely accepted and prevalent that they are now even quoted on Oprah!
Recently I had the privilege and pleasure to travel to Haiwaii and meet Ram Dass in person and it made me realize that this book is perhaps more relevant today than it when it was written (or maybe that's just wisdom through age!).
Book Review: A Classic of Contemporary Spirituality
Summary: 5 Stars
This book launched a spiritual renaissance for an entire generation. It starts out as a personal memoir, a Western academic who travels to India and finds answers to questions he didn't realize his soul was asking. Then, in the middle, Ram Dass shares some of the higher teachings of India, but in a way that makes you feel you are listening to a really cool individual who is also your friend. It is impossible for Ram Dass to be preachy. He's too down-to-earth, too fun, too "us". (As someone who has heard him speak several times, I can assure you, he speaks and is just like he writes.) The last part of the book is a short list of source materials, books and such, for those who wish to delve further into the subject. This mini-tome is a good introduction for those investigating the spiritual path. For those already on such a path, Be Here Now reminds us what we're trying to do, and why. I highly recommend it.
Richard Salva--author of Soul Journey from Lincoln to Lindbergh [UNABRIDGED]