Ram Dass

Ram Dass

American spiritual teacher and author

Ram Dass was born Richard Alpert in 1931. He became famous for his experiments with LSD in the 1960s with people like Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsburg; he was eventually dismissed from Harvard for his work with psychedelics. In the late 1960s he traveled to India where he worked with a guru for years. On his return he wrote several well-received spiritual books and made various spiritual recordings, becoming something of a guiding light for the post-hippie generation.

Type

Person

Born

Apr 6, 1931

Born in

Newton

Died

Dec 22, 2019 (aged 88)

Died in

Maui

Country

United States

ISNI code

000000012023665X